AUTHORIZATION FOR SOUTH DAKOTA WATER PLANNING

SEC. 1001. AUTHORIZATION FOR SOUTH DAKOTA WATER PLANNINGSTUDIES. (a) The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, may perform the planning studies necessary (including a needs assessment) to determine the feasibility and estimated cost of incorporating all or portions of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota into the service areas of the rural water systems authorized by the Mni Wiconi Project Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–516). (b) Section 3(f) of Public Law 100–516 is hereby amended to insert a new subsection (3) as follows: “(3) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), the Secretary is authorized and directed to obligate up to $1,466 million of the funds appropriated under Public Law 100–516 to construct an interim water system for the White Clay and Wakpamni Districts of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation as soon as the final engineering report for that segment of the Oglala Rural Water Supply System has been completed and the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 for that segment of the System have been met.”