S.Amdt. 6378

SA 6378. Ms. LUMMIS (for herself and Mr. Kelly) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle F of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1064. DIVERSION DAM AND PIPELINE, MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND COLUMBIA RIVER.

Notwithstanding section 715(a) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2265(a)), the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Civil Works, and the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, shall carry out a technological and feasibility study on the transfer of water to the Colorado River Basin from--

(1) the Columbia River Basin; and

(2) the Mississippi River Basin, to prevent flood damage along the Mississippi River and its tributaries.