[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6354 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6354

To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit designation as 
  critical habitat of certain areas in artificial water diversion or 
                          delivery facilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 12, 2018

 Mr. Gosar (for himself, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Banks of Indiana, Mr. Biggs, 
   Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina, Mr. 
 LaMalfa, Mr. Luetkemeyer, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Newhouse, Mrs. Noem, Mr. 
     Norman, Mr. Estes of Kansas, Mr. Gohmert, and Mr. McClintock) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit designation as 
  critical habitat of certain areas in artificial water diversion or 
                          delivery facilities.

    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 ``Stop Takings On Reserves 
Antithetical to Germane Encapsulation Act of 2018'' or the ``STORAGE 
Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF DESIGNATION OF CERTAIN HABITAT IN AN ARTIFICIAL 
              WATER DELIVERY OR STORAGE FACILITY AS CRITICAL HABITAT.

    Section 4(a)(3) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1533(a)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(C) The Secretary shall not designate as critical habitat any 
area in a water storage reservoir, water diversion structure, canal, or 
other water storage, diversion, or delivery facility, where habitat is 
periodically created and destroyed as a result of changes in water 
levels caused by the operation of such facility.''.
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