[20200722]IN11465_填海工程局拟议补充资金.pdf

CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i Proposed Supplemental Funding for Bureau of Reclamation Projects July 22, 2020 The House Appropriations Committees reported version of the FY2021 Energy and Water Development appropriations bill (H.R. 7613) includes $3 billion in emergency supplemental funding for the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation). This is in addition to the bills regular FY2021 funding for Reclamation of $1.636 billion. Reclamation owns and operates hundreds of large dams and water diversion structures in the 17 conterminous states west of the Mississippi River. Congress created Reclamation in the Reclamation Act of 1902, which authorized the Secretary of the Interior to construct irrigation works in western states. Background on Reclamation is available here. Over the past five years, Congress has appropriated to Reclamation an average of approximately $1.4 billion per year. In contrast to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Reclamation has not built many new projects over the past few decades and has not received significant supplemental funding since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5). Most of its expe