This bill would allow the Secretary of the Interior, working with the Dakota Mainstem Regional Water System through a cooperative agreement, to study whether it is feasible to build a project to supply municipal, rural, and industrial water. The study would cover the Dakota Mainstem service area in South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota. The study must follow the reclamation feasibility standards (part 404 of title 43, Code of Federal Regulations, or successor regulations). The Dakota Mainstem Regional Water System is defined in the bill as a nonprofit project entity organized substantially in line with those reclamation standards.
The bill would authorize a federal study only; it does not itself authorize building the water project. The Secretary may, but is not required to, carry out the study in cooperation with the nonprofit regional water entity. The study would assess whether a regional water supply project for municipal, rural, and industrial uses is feasible in the listed service area.
The federal share of the total study costs may not exceed 50 percent. The bill authorizes $10,000,000 to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out the study. The authority to conduct the study expires 10 years after the bill becomes law. No publicly available information on estimated total construction costs or detailed non-federal cost commitments is included in the bill text.
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