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Version 80 · Reported to Senate without amendment · Mar 10, 2005
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Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to enter into one or more contracts with the City of Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the annual storage of the city's water for municipal and industrial use in the Seminoe Dam and Reservoir of the Kendrick Project (the Bureau of Reclamation project on the North Platte River that was authorized by a finding of feasibility approved by the President on August 30, 1935, and constructed for irrigation and electric power generation, the major features of which include Seminoe Dam, Reservoir, and Powerplant and Alcova Dam and Powerplant).
Limits a contract to a term of not more than 40 years, which may be renewed on terms agreeable to the Secretary and the city, for successive terms of not more than 40 years per term.
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Directs that: (1) any operation and maintenance charges received under such a contract be credited against applicable operation and maintenance costs of the Project; and (2) any other revenues received under such a contract be credited to the Reclamation Fund as a credit to the construction costs of the Project.
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Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] · R–WY
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Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 40.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment. With written report No. 109-27.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment. With written report No. 109-27.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Introduced in Senate
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