Rural Jobs and Hydropower Expansion Act

This Act may be cited as the Rural Jobs and Hydropower Expansion Act.
Section 9(c) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1194) is amended—
by striking (1) The Secretary is authorized and inserting The Secretary is authorized;
by striking small conduit hydropower using Bureau of Reclamation facilities and pumped storage hydropower exclusively using Bureau of Reclamation reservoirs and inserting hydropower using all Bureau of Reclamation facilities;
by striking No contract relating to municipal water supply and inserting the following:
No contract relating to municipal water supply
in paragraph (2)(A)—
by striking applicable transferred conduit and inserting applicable transferred works facility;
by striking applicable reserved conduit and inserting applicable reserved works facility; and
by striking power privilege offer for a small conduit and inserting power privilege offer for the;
in paragraph (3), by striking small conduit and inserting applicable;
in paragraph (4), by striking small conduit hydropower;
in paragraph (6)—
by striking conduit before hydropower generation; and
by striking transferred conduit and inserting transferred works facility;
in paragraph (7), by striking conduit;
in paragraph (8)—
by inserting (referred to in this section as an authorization) before issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission;
by striking August 9, 2013, and inserting the date of the enactment of the Rural Jobs and Hydropower Expansion Act; and
by adding at the end Any authorization issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with respect to a project shall remain in place until such authorization becomes inactive. As allowed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, an authorization may be renewed and remain active. Once the authorization becomes inactive, project site jurisdiction shall shift to the Bureau of Reclamation exclusively.;
by redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph (10);
by inserting after paragraph (8) the following:
Nothing in this section shall expand or otherwise amend the Bureau of Reclamation lease of power privilege authorities outside the project boundary.
in paragraph (10), as so redesignated—
by striking subparagraphs (A), (C), (D), and (E);
by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (A); and
by adding at the end the following:
The term reserved works facility means those facilities owned by the Bureau of Reclamation where the Bureau of Reclamation has retained responsibility for carrying out operation and maintenance activities.
The term transferred works facility means a project facility where the operations and maintenance of that facility is carried out by a non-Federal entity under the provisions of a formal operations and maintenance transfer contract.