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To amend the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 to modify a provision relating to cost-sharing requirements applicable to certain Bureau of Reclamation dams and dikes, and for other purposes.

S. 3971 · 117th Congress · Mar 31, 2022 · Lineage

A BILL

Section 1 Cost-sharing requirements applicable to certain Bureau of Reclamation dams and dikes

Section 4309 of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (43 U.S.C. 377b note; Public Law 115–270) is amended—
(1)
in the section heading, by inserting “dams and” before “dikes”;
(2)
in subsection (a), by striking “effective beginning on the date of enactment of this section, the Federal share of the operations and maintenance costs of a dike described in subsection (b)” and inserting “the Federal share of the dam safety modifications costs of a dike described in subsection (c)”;
(3)
by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c);
(4)
by inserting after subsection (a) the following:

“(b) Gate repairs—Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including regulations), effective during the 10-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal share of the costs to repair or replace a gate and any ancillary gate components of a dam described in subsection (c) shall be 100 percent.”

(5)
in subsection (c) (as so redesignated)—
(A)
in the subsection heading, by inserting “dams and ” before “dikes”;
(B)
in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “A dike referred to in subsection (a) is a” and inserting “A dam or dike referred to in subsections (a) and (b) is a dam or”; and
(C)
in paragraph (2), by striking “December 31, 1945” and inserting “December 31, 1948”.