H.R. 3981: Accelerated Revenue, Repayment, and Surface Water Storage Enhancement Act

113th Congress · introduced 2014-01-31 · Water Resources Development · Latest: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 16.

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Where it came from: introduced 2014-01-31 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4] · what a sponsor is
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Where it stands now: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 16. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Accelerated Revenue, Repayment, and Surface Water Storage Enhancement Act

Plain summary

Accelerated Revenue, Repayment, and Surface Water Storage Enhancement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convert certain existing water service contracts between the United States and water users' associations to repayment contracts to allow for prepayment of such contracts, upon the request of the contractor. Specifies the manner of conversion and the terms and conditions of prepayment. Requires the receipts generated from prepayment of contracts under this Act, beyond amounts necessary to cover the amount of receipts forgone from scheduled payments under current law for the 10-year period following the enactment of this Act, to be directed to the Reclamation Surface Water Storage Account. Requires the Secretary to allocate amounts in such Account to fund or provide loans for the construction of surface water storage for: increased municipal and industrial water supply; agricultural floodwater, erosion, and sedimentation reduction; agricultural drainage improvements; agricultural irrigation; increased recreation opportunities; reduced adverse impacts to fish and wildlife from water storage or diversion projects within watersheds associated with water storage projects funded under this Act; and other purposes consistent with reclamation laws or other federal law.

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Accelerated Revenue, Repayment, and Surface Water Storage Enhancement Act

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Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4] · 0 cosponsors

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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113hr3981.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/hr>

Record fed-us-cong113-hr3981 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113