119-s887

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 887 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 887

To provide for a memorandum of understanding to address the impacts of 
 a certain record of decision on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 March 6, 2025

 Mr. Lee (for himself and Mr. Curtis) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
 Natural Resources

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 A BILL

To provide for a memorandum of understanding to address the impacts of 
 a certain record of decision on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Basin Fund Preservation Act''.

SEC. 2. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING TO ADDRESS POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF A 
 CERTAIN RECORD OF DECISION ON THE UPPER COLORADO RIVER 
 BASIN FUND.

    (a) In General.--As soon as practicable after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
Commissioner of Reclamation, and the Secretary of Energy, acting 
through the Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration, in 
consultation with the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Work Group, 
shall enter into a memorandum of understanding to explore and address 
the impact that the record of decision entitled the ``Supplement to the 
2016 Glen Canyon Dam Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan Record 
of Decision'' and dated July 2024 (referred to in this section as the 
``record of decision'') has on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund 
(referred to in this section as the ``Fund'').

    (b) Required Plan.--The memorandum of understanding entered into 
under subsection

    (a) shall, using information derived from existing 
hydropower contracts, include the establishment of a plan to--

    (1) address the effects that the record of decision may 
 have on Fund obligations including routine operations, 
 maintenance, and replacement of critical infrastructure;

    (2) address the impact that the record of decision has on 
 hydropower production at Glen Canyon Dam, including costs to 
 replace hydropower resources and grid reliability; and

    (3) identify impacts that the record of decision has had on 
 species listed as a threatened species or an endangered species 
 under 

section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 
 U.S.C. 1533).
            (c) Savings Clause.--Nothing in this Act preempts any rights or 
obligations under subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 
5, United States Code (commonly known as the ``Administrative Procedure 
Act'').
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