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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2073 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit the use of Federal funds to allow or study the breach or alteration |
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| 6 | 6 | | of the Lower Snake River dams, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH11, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. N |
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| 10 | 10 | | EWHOUSE(for himself, Mr. BAUMGARTNER, Mr. FULCHER, and Mr. |
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| 12 | 12 | | ENTZ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com- |
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| 13 | 13 | | mittee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Trans- |
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| 14 | 14 | | portation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined |
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| 15 | 15 | | by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall |
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| 16 | 16 | | within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 17 | 17 | | A BILL |
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| 18 | 18 | | To prohibit the use of Federal funds to allow or study |
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| 19 | 19 | | the breach or alteration of the Lower Snake River dams, |
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| 20 | 20 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 22 | 22 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 24 | 24 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Defending our Dams 4 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Act’’. 5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. LOWER SNAKE RIVER DAMS. 6 |
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| 27 | 27 | | (a) P |
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| 28 | 28 | | ROHIBITION ONUSE OFFEDERALFUNDS.—No 7 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Federal funds may be used to allow, lead to, or study the 8 |
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| 33 | 33 | | breach or functional alteration of, including study of 1 |
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| 34 | 34 | | power, flood control, or navigation replacement of, or pro-2 |
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| 35 | 35 | | vide dam removal technical assistance for, the Lower 3 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Snake River dams. 4 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (b) P |
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| 38 | 38 | | ROHIBITION ONSPILLAGEOPERATIONS.— 5 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (1) I |
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| 40 | 40 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Army, 6 |
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| 41 | 41 | | acting through the Chief of Engineers, may not 7 |
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| 42 | 42 | | carry out any spillage operations on any of the 8 |
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| 43 | 43 | | Lower Snake River dams unless such operations are 9 |
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| 44 | 44 | | approved by the Secretary and the Administrator of 10 |
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| 45 | 45 | | the Bonneville Power Administration. 11 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (2) C |
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| 47 | 47 | | ONSIDERATIONS.—In determining whether 12 |
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| 48 | 48 | | to approve spillage operations under paragraph (1), 13 |
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| 49 | 49 | | the Secretary and the Administrator shall consider 14 |
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| 50 | 50 | | all Columbia River System operations. 15 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (c) D |
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| 52 | 52 | | EFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘Lower 16 |
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| 53 | 53 | | Snake River dams’’ means the following dams in the State 17 |
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| 54 | 54 | | of Washington, authorized by section 2 of the Act of 18 |
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| 55 | 55 | | March 2, 1945 (chapter 19, 59 Stat. 21): 19 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (1) Ice Harbor Dam. 20 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (2) Lower Monumental Dam. 21 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (3) Little Goose Dam. 22 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (4) Lower Granite Dam. 23 |
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