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US Congress · H.R. 1729 · Passed the House

Bolts Ditch Act

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Introduced 2025-02-27
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Public Lands and Natural Resources

What it does

Bolts Ditch Act This bill allows additional entities—the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District and the Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority—to access and use the Bolts Ditch and its headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado for the purposes of the diversion of water and use, maintenance, and repair of such ditch and headgate.
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1Short title

This section would give the Act the short title, the Bolts Ditch Act.

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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Bolts Ditch Act .

2Additional entities allowed to maintain Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate

This section would amend Section 1101(a) of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act (Public Law 116-9) to add two more entities to those allowed to carry out maintenance work on Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado. The Eagle River Water and Sanitation District, a Colorado special district, and the Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority, an authority organized under the laws of Colorado, would become eligible to complete that maintenance work alongside whichever entities Section 1101(a) already allows.

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2. Additional entities allowed to maintain Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate Section 1101(a) of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act ( Public Law 116–9 ) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: , the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District, a Colorado Special District, or the Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority, an authority organized under the laws of the State of Colorado .

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Where it is

Introduced · 2025-02-27

In the House.

Passed the House · 2025-07-14
Senate floor vote · next · the next step

Official documents

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The numbers

29%
of bills that passed one chamber became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=939)
1
sponsor, out of 218 needed to pass
Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (2025-07-15).