- asset
includes assets described in subparagraph (A) that are considered to be mission critical.
- Asset Management Report
means—
- Bureau
means the Bureau of Reclamation.
- Commissioner
means the Commissioner of Reclamation.
- conduit
means any Bureau of Reclamation tunnel, canal, pipeline, aqueduct, flume, ditch, or similar manmade water conveyance that is operated for the distribution of water for agricultural, municipal, or industrial consumption and not primarily for the generation of electricity.
- construction charges
shall mean the amounts of principal obligations payable to the United States under water-right applications, repayment contracts, orders of the Secretary, or other forms of obligation entered into pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws, excepting amounts payable for water rental or power charges, operation and maintenance and other yearly service charges, and excepting also any other operation and maintenance, interest, or other charges which are not covered into the principal sums of the construction accounts of the Bureau of Reclamation.
- contract
means any repayment or water service contract between the United States and a district providing for the payment of construction charges to the United States including normal operation, maintenance, and replacement costs pursuant to Federal reclamation law.
- development unit
shall mean a part of a project which, for purposes of orderly engineering or reclamation development, is designated as a development unit by order of the Secretary.
- district
means any individual or any legal entity established under State law which has entered into a contract or is eligible to contract with the Secretary for irrigation water.
- division of a project
shall mean any part of a project designated as a division by order of the Secretary or any phase or feature of project operations given a separate designation as a division by order of the Secretary for the purposes of orderly and efficient administration.
- eligible entity
means a member agency of the North Bay Water Reuse Authority of the State located in the North San Pablo Bay watershed in—
- extraordinary operation and maintenance work
means major, nonrecurring maintenance to Reclamation-owned or operated facilities, or facility components, that is—
- Federal irrigation project
means any irrigation project subject to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), to which laws this subchapter itself shall be deemed a supplement.
- Federal reclamation laws
shall mean the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
- full cost
means an annual rate as determined by the Secretary that shall amortize the expenditures for construction properly allocable to irrigation facilities in service, including all operation and maintenance deficits funded, less payments, over such periods as may be required under Federal reclamation law or applicable contract provisions, with interest on both accruing from October 12, 1982, on costs outstanding at that date, or from the date incurred in the case of costs arising subsequent to October 12, 1982: Provided, That operation, maintenance, and replacement charges required under Federal reclamation law, including this subchapter, shall be collected in addition to the full cost charge.
- individual
means any natural person, including his or her spouse, and including other dependents thereof within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 152).
- inspection
means an inspection of a project facility carried out by the Secretary—
- irrigation block
shall mean an area of arid or semiarid lands in a project in which, in the judgment of the Secretary, the irrigable lands should be reclaimed and put under irrigation at substantially the same time, and which is designated as an irrigation block by order of the Secretary.
- irrigation district
means any irrigation, water conservation or conservancy, multicounty water conservation or conservancy district, or any separate public entity composed of two or more such districts and jointly exercising powers of its member districts.
- irrigation water
means water made available for agricultural purposes from the operation of reclamation project facilities pursuant to a contract with the Secretary.
- landholding
means total irrigable acreage of one or more tracts of land situated in one or more districts owned or operated under a lease which is served with irrigation water pursuant to a contract with the Secretary.
- law enforcement personnel
means an employee of a Federal, State, or local government agency, including an Indian tribal agency, who has successfully completed law enforcement training approved by the Secretary and is authorized to carry firearms, make arrests, and execute service of process to enforce criminal laws of his or her employing jurisdiction.
- limited recipient
means any legal entity established under State or Federal law benefiting more than twenty-five natural persons.
- long-term contract
shall mean any contract the term of which is more than ten years.
- major repair and rehabilitation need
means major nonrecurring maintenance at a Reclamation facility, including maintenance related to the safety of dams, extraordinary maintenance of dams, deferred major maintenance activities, and all other significant repairs and extraordinary maintenance.
- net water storage benefit
means an increase in the volume of water that is—
- organization
shall mean a State or a department, agency, or political subdivision thereof or a conservancy district, irrigation district, water users’ association, an agency created by interstate compact, or similar organization which has capacity to contract with the United States under the Federal reclamation laws.
- project
means any reclamation or irrigation project, including incidental features thereof, authorized by Federal reclamation law, or constructed by the United States pursuant to such law, or in connection with which there is a repayment or water service contract executed by the United States pursuant to such law, or any project constructed by the Secretary through the Bureau of Reclamation for the reclamation of lands.
- project contract unit
shall mean a project or any substantial area of a project which is covered or is proposed to be covered by a repayment contract.
- project facility
means any part or incidental feature of a project, excluding high- and significant-hazard dams, constructed under the Federal reclamation law (the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388, chapter 1093), and Acts supplemental to and amendatory of that Act (43 U.S.C. 371 et seq.) 1.
- qualified recipient
means an individual who is a citizen of the United States or a resident alien thereof or any legal entity established under State or Federal law which benefits twenty-five natural persons or less.
- Reclamation facility
means each of the infrastructure assets that are owned by the Bureau at a Reclamation project.
- Reclamation project
means any reclamation or irrigation project, including incidental features thereof, authorized by Federal reclamation law or the Act of August 11, 1939 (commonly known as the “Water Conservation and Utilization Act”) (53 Stat. 1418, chapter 717;
- recordable contract
means a contract between the Secretary and a landowner in writing capable of being recorded under State law providing for the sale or disposition of lands held in excess of the ownership limitations of Federal reclamation law including this subchapter.
- repayment contract
shall mean any contract providing for payment of construction charges to the United States.
- reserved conduit
means any conduit that is included in project works the care, operation, and maintenance of which has been reserved by the Secretary, through the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation.
- Secretary
means the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation.
- small conduit hydropower
means a facility capable of producing 5 megawatts or less of electric capacity.
- Southern Arizona
means those portions of the counties of Pima, Santa Cruz, and Pinal within the Tucson Active Management Hydrologic Area as defined by the Arizona Department of Water Resources.
- Southern California
means those portions of the counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernadino,1 Riverside, San Diego, and Ventura within the south coast and Colorado River hydrologic regions as defined by the California Department of Water Resources.
- State
means the State of California.
- transferred conduit
means any conduit that is included in project works the care, operation, and maintenance of which has been transferred to a legally organized water users association or irrigation district.
- transferred works
means a project facility, the operation and maintenance of which is carried out by a non-Federal entity, under the provisions of a formal operation and maintenance transfer contract.
- transferred works operating entity
means the organization which is contractually responsible for operation and maintenance of transferred works.
- water reclamation and reuse project
means a project carried out by the Secretary and an eligible entity in the North San Pablo Bay watershed relating to—