Calendar No. 246
 96TH CONGREss SENATE REFonT
 lat Session I No. 96-235





 RECLAMATION REFORM ACT OF 1979



 JULY 6 (legislative day, JUNE 21), 1979.-Ordered to be printed
 Filed under authority of the order of the Senate of June 27 (legislative day,
 June 21), 1979


Mr. CHuRCH, from the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources,
 submitted the following

 REPORT

 together with

 SUPPLEMENTAL AND ADDITIONAL VIEWS
 [To accompany S. 14]

 The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 14) a bill to amend and supplement the acreage
limitation and residency provisions of the Federal reclamation laws,
as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes, having con-
sidered the same, reports favorably thereon with amendment (s) and
recommends that the bill (as amended) do pass.
 The amendments are as follows:
 1. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
 That this Act shall be a supplement to the Act of June 17, 1902, and Acts
supplementary thereof and amendatory thereto (43 U.S.C. 311), hereinafter
referred to as the Federal Reclamation Law, and this Act may be cited as the
"Reclamation Reform Act of 1979".
 DEFINITIONS
 SEc. 2. (a) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior.
 (b) The term "individual" means any person, including his or her spouse,
and including other dependents thereof within the meaning of the Internal
Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. 152).
 (c) The term "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 such individuals or less.
 (d) The term "limited recipient" means any legal entity established under
State or Federal law benefiting more than twenty-five individuals that is re-
ceiving water service from, through, or by means of a Federal reclamation
project on the date of this Act.
 (1)
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