Amendment No. 1162

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Amend the bill as a whole by deleting sections 4 and 5, renumbering sec. 6 as sec. 5 and adding a new section designated sec. 4, following sec. 3, to read as follows:

"Sec. 4. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to the Newlands Project Water Rights Fund, created by section 5 of this act, the sum of $3,300,000 as the state’s contribution to the fund for the protection and preservation of the natural resources of this state. All interest generated from this appropriation accrues to the benefit of the Newlands Project Water Rights Fund.

2. The Carson Water Subconservancy District shall not commit for expenditure any amount of the appropriation made by subsection 1 until the District determines that:

(a) There is and will continue to be substantial compliance with the "Joint Testimony of Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, City of Fallon, Churchill County and Sierra Pacific Power Company," dated by the parties thereto on May 6, 1999, and submitted to a hearing of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance on May 24, 1999; and

(b) The City of Fallon and Churchill County have withdrawn all administrative protests and have sought to dismiss all legal actions initiated by the city and county, respectively, relating to applications for changes in the point of diversion, place of use or manner of use of water rights pending before the State Engineer on the effective date of this act as required by that joint testimony.

3. The Carson Water Subconservancy District shall not commit for expenditure during the next biennium more than $1,600,000 of the appropriation made by subsection 1.

4. Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by subsection 1 must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 2004, and reverts to the state general fund as soon as all payments of money committed have been made.".

Amend the bill as a whole by adding a new section designated sec. 6, following sec. 6, to read as follows:

"Sec. 6. The 71st regular session of the Nevada Legislature shall review the manner in which the appropriation made by section 4 of this act has been expended and determine whether there has been substantial compliance with the "Joint Testimony of Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, City of Fallon, Churchill County and Sierra Pacific Power Company," dated by the parties thereto on May 6, 1999, and submitted to a hearing of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance on May 24, 1999.".

Amend sec. 8, page 6, line 19, by deleting "6" and inserting "5".

Amend the title of the bill by deleting the seventh through eleventh lines and inserting:

"within a certain period; establishing the Newlands Project Water Rights Fund and a related program for the acquisition of certain surface water rights; making an appropriation; and providing other matters".