S 4233 · 117th Congress · Water Resources Development

Platte River Basin Critical Maintenance and Repair Act

Introduced 2022-05-17· Sponsored by Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]· Senate

Bill Progress

Introduced
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Committee
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Senate Vote
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House
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Enacted
Latest: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held.(2022-05-25)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Platte River Basin Critical Maintenance and Repair Act This bill expands federal government funding to allow for the critical maintenance and repair of certain Bureau of Reclamation-owned facilities located within the Platte River Basin in Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. The bill applies to those basin facilities that have had a structural failure resulting in a declaration of emergency in the 3-year period ending on the date the bill is enacted (e.g., the Fort Laramie Canal in both Wyoming and Nebraska, which had a tunnel collapse in July 2019). Current law limits funding eligibility to certain Reclamation-owned facilities that suffered a critical failure during a 2-year period ending on November 15, 2021.…

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