S.Amdt. 3848

SA 3848. Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Nelson, and Mr.
Sessions) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment
SA 3801 proposed by Mr. Alexander (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) to
the bill H.R. 2028, making appropriations for energy and water
development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September
30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:
Sec. __.  None of the funds made available in this Act, or
any contributed or non-Federal funds, may be used--
(1) to study reallocation of water within the Alabama-
Coosa-Tallapoosa or Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river
basins until the Secretary of the Army has executed a
Partnering Agreement--
(A) with--
(i) in the case of the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa basin, each
of the States of Alabama and Georgia; and
(ii) in the case of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint
basin, each of the States of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia;
and
(B) that outlines the participation of each State in
separate water reallocation studies for each basin; or
(2) to reallocate water within the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa
or Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basins until the
Secretary of the Army executes a final agreement with each
State through which the relevant river basin flows that
provides the explicit consent of each relevant State to any
reallocation.
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