Authorizes the Interior Department and local operators of federally transferred water systems to make extraordinary repairs on urban canals whose failure could endanger more than 100 people, with the federal government paying 25 percent of the cost and the operator repaying the rest.

• Allows the Interior Secretary or the transferred works operating entity to carry out extraordinary operation and maintenance work on urban canals of concern that the Secretary finds necessary.
• Defines an urban canal of concern as a transferred canal reach whose failure would put an estimated more than 100 individuals at risk and that the Secretary classifies as urban.
• Requires the Secretary to provide 25 percent of total costs on a nonreimbursable basis and advance the remaining costs, which the operating entity repays; emergency work under subsection (c) is excluded from this split.
• Makes conforming changes to definitions and punctuation in the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009.

• Energy and Natural Resources Committee (Senate)
• Water and Power Subcommittee

Water Resources Development