Bill > S1291

This bill allows any landowner within Nebraska's Northport Irrigation District to pay off their share of construction costs for Bureau of Reclamation project facilities at any time, overriding certain restrictions in federal reclamation law, specifically the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982. Once a landowner fully repays these allocated construction costs for their land, those parcels will no longer be subject to federal limitations on land ownership size and full-cost pricing, which are part of the original Reclamation Act of 1902 and its amendments. The Secretary of the Interior will then issue a certificate to the landowner confirming that their land is free from these specific federal limitations, though this action will not alter existing contracts between the irrigation district and the United States, nor will it change the relationships between the district and its landowners under Nebraska state law.