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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2827

  To respond to the economic disaster threatening certain farmers and 
     communities resulting from the Federal Government's denial of 
 irrigation water for the Klamath Irrigation Project in the States of 
                         Oregon and California.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 2, 2001

   Mr. Walden (for himself Mr. Herger, Mr. Pombo, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. 
 Simpson, Mr. Hastings of Washignton, Mr. Nethercutt, and Mr. Gibbons) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                              Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To respond to the economic disaster threatening certain farmers and 
     communities resulting from the Federal Government's denial of 
 irrigation water for the Klamath Irrigation Project in the States of 
                         Oregon and California.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Klamath Basin Economic Disaster 
Relief Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO DENIAL OF IRRIGATION WATER FOR KLAMATH 
              IRRIGATION PROJECT.

    (a) Relief Program.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall carry out 
an economic relief program related to the Klamath Irrigation Project in 
the States of Oregon and California to provide direct compensation for 
employment, crop, livestock, and land-value losses directly related to 
the denial of irrigation water for the Klamath Irrigation Project. The 
Secretary shall base the program on the proposal of the Klamath Water 
Users Association entitled ``Current Market Analysis and Economic 
Impact Report'' and dated May 22, 2001.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may be necessary to carry 
out the relief program.
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