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Week Ending November 17, 2006

S.819 A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reallocate costs of the Pactola Dam and Reservoir, South Dakota, to reflect increased demands for municipal, industrial, and fish and wildlife purposes.

South Dakota’s Pactola Dam and Reservoir, Rapid Valley Unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program has been used for irrigation purposes but demands for municipal, industrial and fish and wildlife purposes justify Congress’ approval to reallocate the cost of constructing the damn to include the additional purposes and uses.

Sponsor: Senator Tim Johnson

Vote: Passed Senate by Unanimous Consent November 16, 2005. Passed House 387 to 0 (RC 518) November 13, 2006.

Cost to the taxpayers: “CBO estimates that increase in contract payments would be about $100,000 annually. Such payments are recorded in the budget as offsetting receipts (a credit against direct spending).”

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SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds that--

(1) it is appropriate to reallocate the costs of the Pactola Dam and Reservoir, South Dakota, to reflect increased demands for municipal, industrial, and fish and wildlife purposes; and

(2) section 302 of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7152) prohibits such a reallocation of costs without congressional approval.

SEC. 3. REALLOCATION OF COSTS OF PACTOLA DAM AND RESERVOIR, SOUTH DAKOTA.

The Secretary of the Interior may, as provided in the contract of August 2001 entered into between Rapid City, South Dakota, and the Rapid Valley Conservancy District, reallocate, in a manner consistent with Federal reclamation law (the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388, chapter 1093), and Acts supplemental to and amendatory of that Act (43 U.S.C. 371 et seq.)), the construction costs of Pactola Dam and Reservoir, Rapid Valley Unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, South Dakota, from irrigation purposes to municipal, industrial, and fish and wildlife purposes.

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