Bill Details
S.365 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-03 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Introduced Date
2025-02-03
Policy Area
Public Lands and Natural Resources
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This bill would change existing law so that more local water groups in Colorado can do maintenance work on Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate in the Holy Cross Wilderness. Right now, only certain entities are allowed to carry out this work. The bill would add two Colorado water organizations, giving them permission to help with the upkeep of these water facilities.
- It would amend a section of a 2019 conservation law to expand who can perform maintenance on Bolts Ditch and the headgate.
- The new eligible entities would be the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District and the Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority.
- The bill is tied to water infrastructure in the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado and is meant to make sure needed maintenance can still be completed.
Official Summaries
Bolts Ditch Act
This bill allows additional entities—the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District and the Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority—to access and use the Bolts Ditch and its headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado for the purposes of the diversion of water and use, maintenance, and repair of such ditch and headgate.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 365 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 365
To amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and
Recreation Act to allow for additional entities to be eligible to
complete the maintenance work on Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch
Headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness, Colorado.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 3, 2025
Mr. Bennet (for himself and Mr. Hickenlooper) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources
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A BILL
To amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and
Recreation Act to allow for additional entities to be eligible to
complete the maintenance work on Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch
Headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness, Colorado.
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 ``Bolts Ditch Act''.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL ENTITIES ALLOWED TO MAINTAIN BOLTS DITCH AND THE
BOLTS DITCH HEADGATE.
Section 1101(a) of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation,
Management, and Recreation Act (Public Law 116-9; 133 Stat. 604) is
amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: ``,
the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District, a Colorado Special
District, or the Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority, an authority
organized under the laws of the State of Colorado''.
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