Require cost-benefit reviews and beneficiary financing for water projects

McClintock supports evaluating federal water projects by weighing construction, operations and maintenance costs against their expected value, including water and power sales, recreation, and flood protection. He also supports requiring project beneficiaries to repay federal funds in proportion to their use of the benefits, rather than charging general taxpayers. He presents these measures as a way to direct federal support toward projects with greater benefits relative to cost.

Context: The passage also describes these principles as a framework the House Water and Power Committee majority would seek to establish at that time.

In their own words

restore the doctrine of “beneficiary pays”

The source

Tom McClintock: /issues/water-policy/

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