To provide for a memorandum of understanding to address the impacts of a certain record of decision on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill requires the Secretaries of Interior and Energy to create a joint memorandum of understanding to study how a July 2024 decision about Glen Canyon Dam operations affects the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund. The study must examine impacts on hydropower production, infrastructure funding, grid reliability, and endangered species. The bill protects existing administrative procedure rights.
Who Benefits and How
Hydropower utilities and water users in the Colorado River Basin benefit by having federal agencies formally address concerns about reduced hydropower production and revenue losses from the new dam management plan. The study could lead to solutions that protect their financial interests and electricity supply reliability.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Department of the Interior and Department of Energy face new compliance requirements to develop the memorandum of understanding and create a detailed plan. The Bureau of Reclamation and Western Area Power Administration must participate in this process and allocate staff time and resources to the study.
Key Provisions
- Requires Interior and Energy secretaries to enter into a memorandum of understanding addressing Glen Canyon Dam impacts
- Mandates a plan to address effects on Upper Colorado River Basin Fund obligations for infrastructure maintenance
- Requires analysis of hydropower production impacts, replacement costs, and grid reliability concerns
- Directs identification of impacts on threatened and endangered species
- Preserves rights and obligations under the Administrative Procedure Act
Evidence Chain:
This summary is derived from the structured analysis below. See "Detailed Analysis" for per-title beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.
Primary Purpose
Requires federal agencies to create a memorandum of understanding addressing impacts of a July 2024 Glen Canyon Dam management decision on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.
Policy Domains
Legislative Strategy
"Address hydropower production impacts from environmental management changes at Glen Canyon Dam while protecting administrative procedure rights"
Likely Beneficiaries
- Hydropower utilities in the Colorado River Basin
- Water resource managers
- Western Area Power Administration contractors
- Bureau of Reclamation
Likely Burden Bearers
- Secretary of Interior
- Secretary of Energy
- Federal agencies required to develop MOU and plan
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commissioner"
- → Commissioner of Reclamation
- "the_administrator"
- → Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration
- "the_secretary_of_energy"
- → Secretary of Energy
- "the_secretary_of_interior"
- → Secretary of the Interior
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
The Supplement to the 2016 Glen Canyon Dam Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan Record of Decision dated July 2024
Upper Colorado River Basin Fund
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