Official Summaries

This bill directs the Bureau of Reclamation and the Western Area Power Administration, in consultation with the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Work Group, to enter into a memorandum of understanding to explore and address the impact that the 2024 record of decision entitled Supplement to the 2016 Glen Canyon Dam Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan Record of Decision has on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund. The memorandum of understanding must include a plan to (1) address the effects that the decision may have on the fund's obligations, (2) address the impact that the decision has on hydropower production at Glen Canyon Dam, and (3) identify impacts that the decision has had on species listed as threatened or endangered species.

By way of background, Reclamation published a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 for the Glen Canyon Dam Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan (LTEMP) in 2024. The SEIS revises the 2016 LTEMP Record of Decision to address two issues: (1) responding to the threat of the invasive smallmouth bass below Glen Canyon Dam, and (2) incorporating the latest sediment science to assess when high-flow experiments should be conducted in order to protect the endangered humpback chub.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1001 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1001


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 14, 2025

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
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. 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 Clauses.--Nothing in this Act shall preempt rights or 
obligations under subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5, United States 
Code (commonly referred to as the ``Administrative Procedure Act'').

            Passed the House of Representatives May 13, 2025.

            Attest:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.