[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1967 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1967

   To amend the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to authorize pumped 
storage hydropower development utilizing multiple Bureau of Reclamation 
                              reservoirs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 6, 2017

  Mr. Lamborn (for himself, Mr. Newhouse, and Mrs. McMorris Rodgers) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to authorize pumped 
storage hydropower development utilizing multiple Bureau of Reclamation 
                              reservoirs.

    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 ``Bureau of Reclamation Pumped Storage 
Hydropower Development Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY FOR PUMPED STORAGE HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT UTILIZING 
              MULTIPLE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION RESERVOIRS.

    Section 9(c)(1) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 
485h(c)(1)) is amended by inserting ``and pumped storage hydropower 
development utilizing multiple Bureau of Reclamation reservoirs'' after 
``including small conduit hydropower development''.
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