text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Lower Colorado River Multi-Species 
  Conservation Program Act''.
  
  SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
  
      In this Act:
              (1) Lower colorado river multi-species conservation 
          program.--The term ``Lower Colorado River Multi-Species 
          Conservation Program'' or ``LCR MSCP'' means the cooperative 
          effort on the Lower Colorado River between Federal and non-
          Federal entities in Arizona, California, and Nevada approved by 
          the Secretary of the Interior on April 2, 2005.
              (2) Lower colorado river.--The term ``Lower Colorado 
          River'' means the Colorado River from Lake Mead to the 
          Southerly International Boundary with Mexico, including its 
          historic floodplain and its mainstem reservoirs to their full 
          pool elevations.
              (3) Program documents.--The term ``Program Documents'' 
          means the Habitat Conservation Plan, Biological Assessment and 
          Biological and Conference Opinion, Environmental Impact 
          Statement/Environmental Impact Report, Funding and Management 
          Agreement, Implementing Agreement, and Section 10(a)(1)(B) 
          Permit issued and, as applicable, executed in connection with 
          the LCR MSCP.
              (4) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
          of the Interior.
              (5) State.--The term ``State'' means each of the States of 
          Arizona, California, and Nevada.
              (6) Steering committee.--The term ``Steering Committee'' 
          means the LCR MSCP steering committee established pursuant to 
          the Program Documents.
  
  SEC. 3. IMPLEMENTATION AND WATER ACCOUNTING.
  
      (a) Implementation.--The Secretary shall manage and implement the 
  LCR MSCP in accordance with the Program Documents.
      (b) Water Accounting.--The Secretary is authorized and directed to 
  enter into an agreement with the States providing for the use of water 
  from the Lower Colorado River for habitat creation and maintenance in 
  accordance with the Program Documents.
  
  SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
  
      (a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated to the 
  Secretary such sums as may be necessary to meet the obligations of the 
  Secretary under the Program Documents, to remain available until 
  expended.
      (b) Investments.--The Secretary is authorized to invest with the 
  Secretary of the Treasury such portions of appropriations, and any non-
  Federal contributions made pursuant to the Program Documents, as are 
  not, in the judgment of the Secretary, required to meet current 
  expenditures. Such investments shall be made only in interest-bearing 
  obligations of the United States. Funds invested under this subsection 
  and interest on those funds shall be available to the Secretary to meet 
  the obligations of the Secretary under the Program Documents.
      (c) Non-Reimbursable and Non-Returnable.--All amounts appropriated 
  to and expended by the Secretary for the LCR MSCP shall be non-
  reimbursable and non-returnable.
  
  SEC. 5. APPLICABLE LAW, CONTINUITY OF PROGRAM, ENFORCEABILITY OF 
                PROGRAM DOCUMENTS.
  
      (a) In General.--Nothing in this Act shall impair any right to the 
  delivery or beneficial consumptive use of Colorado River water under 
  any compact, treaty, law, decree, or contract in effect on the date of 
  enactment of this Act.
      (b) Continuity of Program Documents.--No future act of Congress 
  relating to Public Law 93-205 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) shall have the 
  effect of modifying the Program Documents unless expressly made 
  applicable to the LCR MSCP.
      (c) Enforceability of Program Documents.--Any party to any 
  agreement entered into with the United States or any agency thereof 
  pursuant to the LCR MSCP may commence a civil action in United States 
  district court to enforce the agreement or to declare the rights and 
  obligations of the parties under the Program Documents. The district 
  court shall have jurisdiction of such actions and may issue such 
  orders, judgments, and decrees as are consistent with the court's 
  exercise of jurisdiction under this section. The United States or any 
  agency thereof may be named as a defendant in such actions. The 
  sovereign immunity of the United States is waived for purposes of 
  actions commenced pursuant to this section. Nothing in this section 
  waives the sovereign immunity of the United States to claims for money 
  damages, monetary compensation, the provision of indemnity, or any 
  claim seeking money from the United States. Any suit pursuant to this 
  section may be brought in any United States district court in the State 
  in which any non-Federal party to the suit is situated.
      (d) Applicable Law.--Nothing in this Act affects the enforceability 
  of the requirement that the Program Documents comply with existing law 
  as of April 2, 2005, except that the Steering Committee shall not be 
  subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.).
target: Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to manage and implement the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program, and to enter into an agreement with Arizona, California, and Nevada providing for the use of water from the Lower Colorado River for habitat creation and maintenance, in accordance with the Habitat Conservation Plan, Biological Assessment and Biological and Conference Opinion, Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report, Funding and Management Agreement, Implementing Agreement (Agreement).
  
  Permits any party to an agreement entered into with the United States pursuant to the Program to commence a civil action in U.S. district court to enforce the agreement or to declare the rights and obligations of the parties under the program documents. Grants the district court jurisdiction over any such action.
feat_title: A bill to authorize appropriations for the Bureau of Reclamation to carry out the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program in the States of Arizona, California, and Nevada, and for other purposes.