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                       116TH  CONGRESS                                          [REPT.  116-674
                          2d  Session      HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                  Part  1








                                 WESTERN WATER SECURITY ACT OF 2020




                       DECEMBER  18, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
                                           of the Union and ordered to be printed




                            Mr.  GRIJALVA,   from  the Committee on Natural Resources,
                                               submitted   the  following



                                                   R  E   P  O   R  T


                                                     together  with


                                                DISSENTING VIEWS


                                                [To accompany  H.R. 4891]

                         The  Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
                       bill (H.R. 4891)  to provide  for the conduct   of certain water   security
                       measures   in  the  Western   United   States,  and  for  other  purposes,
                       having   considered   the  same,   reports  favorably   thereon   with   an
                       amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
                         The  amendment is as follows:
                         Strike  all after the enacting  clause  and  insert the following:

                       SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
                         (a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Western Water Security Act of
                       2020.
                         (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.-The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
                       Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
                       Sec. 2. Definitions.

                                 TITLE I-INFRASTRUCTURE AND WATER MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT
                       Sec. 101. Watersmart extension and expansion.
                       Sec. 102. Emergency drought funding.
                       Sec. 103. Rio Grande Pueblo Irrigation Infrastructure Reauthorization.

                                             TITLE II-GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT
                       Sec. 201. Reauthorization and expansion of the Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program.
                       Sec. 202. Groundwater management assessment and improvement.
                       Sec. 203. Surface and groundwater water availability and the energy nexus.

                                 TITLE III-WATER CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION
                       Sec. 301. Definitions.
                       Sec. 302. Water acquisition program.
                       Sec. 303. Middle Rio Grande Water Conservation.
                       Sec. 304. Sustaining biodiversity during droughts.
                       Sec. 305. Reauthorization of cooperative watershed management program.
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