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US Congress · H.R. 131 · Vetoed

Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act

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Introduced 2025-01-03
Official status: Vetoed
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Water Resources Development

What it does

Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act This bill reduces payments that communities within the Arkansas River Valley must pay to the Bureau of Reclamation for the construction of the Arkansas Valley Conduit, a pipeline in Colorado for delivering water from the Pueblo Reservoir to such communities. Specifically, it removes interest payments and extends the repayment period to 100 years.
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1Short title

This section would let the Act be called the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act.

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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act .

2Arkansas Valley Conduit, Colorado
This section would edit two spots in Public Law 87-590 (76 Stat. 389), the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Act, as that law was previously amended (76 Stat. 390; 123 Stat. 1320-1321): the second sentence of subsection (c) of the Act's first section, and section 2(b)(3)(A). The edits would add a without-interest qualifier, replace wording about the repayment amount being made up of revenue generated by payments with different funding-source wording, add a word before a later reference to revenue, add a 100-year repayment period, strike a plus-interest phrase, and swap one internal cross-reference for another. Stating what the repayment rule would actually say after these edits requires the current text of Public Law 87-590 (as amended in 2009), which is not in the provided bill text, so this unit is held rather than guessed.
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2. Arkansas Valley Conduit, Colorado Public Law 87–590 (76 Stat. 389) is amended— (1) in subsection (c) of the first section (76 Stat. 390; 123 Stat. 1320), in the second sentence— (A) by inserting , without interest, before in an amount ; (B) by striking that is comprised of revenue generated by payments and inserting , which payment shall only consist of funding provided during construction from any person other than the Secretary ; (C) by inserting of before revenue that ; and (D) by inserting over a period of 100 years after project facilities ; and (2) in section 2(b)(3)(A) (76 Stat. 390; 123 Stat. 1321)— (A) by striking plus interest ; and (B) by striking this section and inserting subsection (c) of the first section .

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Where it is

Introduced · 2025-01-03

In the House.

Passed the House · 2025-07-21
Passed the Senate · 2025-12-16
Sent to the President · 2025-12-18
Vetoed by the President · 2025-12-29

Official documents

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The numbers

2
sponsors, out of 218 needed to pass
Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: The Chair directed the Clerk to notify the Senate of the action of the House. (2026-01-08).