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Read. Follow. Verify.Hearing on Federal Funding for Banks Lake Recreation
Record date · July 20, 2026
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What This Bill Does
This document is a transcript of a 1965 U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing regarding S. 2310, a bill proposing that the federal government cover the costs of maintaining recreational facilities at Banks Lake. The bill seeks to classify these specific maintenance costs as ',' meaning they would not be charged back to local water users or project beneficiaries.
The bill determines whether the federal government or local water users bear the financial responsibility for the upkeep of recreational areas at Banks Lake within the Columbia Basin Project.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Columbia Basin Project water users
These users would be relieved of the financial obligation to repay recreational maintenance costs if the bill passes.
U.S. Department of the Interior
The Secretary of the Interior would be granted the authority to make determinations regarding the reimbursement status of these costs.
Key Facts
- S. 2310 proposes that the Secretary of the Interior be authorized to designate certain recreational maintenance costs at Banks Lake as nonreimbursable.
- The bill concerns the Columbia Basin Project, a large-scale federal water development.
- The hearing was held by the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the U.S. Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
- The hearing took place on August 30, 1965, during the 89th Congress.
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Federal Cost Allocation
The bill reflects a mid-20th-century effort to clarify the federal government's role in funding recreational components of large-scale irrigation projects.
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