Saving Rural Reservoirs Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10635 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>

119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10635

    To include high hazard potential dams and rural earthen dams as 
 eligible for rehabilitation assistance under the Watershed Protection 
           and Flood Prevention Act, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2026

Mr. Riley of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                    to the Committee on Agriculture

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
    To include high hazard potential dams and rural earthen dams as 
 eligible for rehabilitation assistance under the Watershed Protection 
           and Flood Prevention Act, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Saving Rural Reservoirs Act''.

SEC. 2. REHABILITATION OF STRUCTURAL MEASURES NEAR, AT, OR PAST THEIR 
              EVALUATED LIFE EXPECTANCY.

    Section 14(a) of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act 
(16 U.S.C. 1012(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
        (A), by inserting ``a covered dam or'' before ``a work of 
        improvement''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Covered dam.--The term `covered dam' means--
                    ``(A) an eligible high hazard potential dam (as 
                such term is defined in section 2 of the National Dam 
                Safety Program Act (33 U.S.C. 467)); or
                    ``(B) any dam--
                            ``(i) located in a town with a population 
                        of less than 5,000 people; and
                            ``(ii) for which more than 50 percent of 
                        the total volume of the embankment of the dam 
                        is formed of compacted earth layers.''.
                                 <all>