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Bureau of Reclamation Transparency Act

Introduced: February 26, 2015 Introduced by: Gosar, Paul A. Republican · Arizona See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 10 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Dec 3, 2015

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 279.

Dec 3, 2015

Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-366.

Oct 8, 2015

Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.

Oct 8, 2015

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

Oct 8, 2015

Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans Discharged.

Oct 7, 2015

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

Jun 25, 2015

Subcommittee Hearings Held.

Mar 23, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.

Feb 26, 2015

Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Feb 26, 2015

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Bureau of Reclamation Transparency Act

(Sec. 4) This bill directs the Department of the Interior to submit to Congress, make publicly available, and biennially update an Asset Management Report that describes the Bureau of Reclamation's efforts to maintain in a reliable manner all reserved works (buildings, structures, facilities, or equipment owned by the Bureau for which operations and maintenance are performed by Bureau employees or through a contract with the Bureau) at Reclamation facilities (infrastructure assets that are owned by the Bureau at each Reclamation project owned by the Bureau) and to standardize and streamline data reporting and processes across regions and areas for the purpose of maintaining such works.

Such Report must include: (1) a detailed assessment of major repair and rehabilitation needs for all such works; and (2) an itemized list of major repair and rehabilitation needs of individual Reclamation facilities at each Reclamation project, including a budget level cost estimate of appropriations needed to complete each item and an assignment of a categorical rating for each item consistent with existing uniform categorization systems to inform the annual budget process and agency requirements.

Interior may exclude from the public version of the Report any information that it identifies as sensitive or classified, but shall make available to specified congressional committees a version of the report containing the sensitive or classified information.

(Sec. 5) Interior must: (1) coordinate with the non-federal entities responsible for the operation and maintenance of transferred works (Reclamation facilities at which operations and maintenance are carried out by a non-federal entity under a formal agreement with the Bureau) in developing reporting requirements for Asset Management Reports regarding major repair and rehabilitation needs for transferred works, and (2) develop and implement a categorical rating system for transferred works that incorporates the rating system for major repair and rehabilitation needs for reserved works.

What's happening now December 3, 2015

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 279.

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