1. Short title This Act may be cited as the California New River Restoration Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) the New River was born out of the Colorado River’s occasional flows into the Salton Sink and the erosion of the New River channel which formed the deep river canyon between 1905 and 1907; (2) the New River starts in Mexicali, Mexico, flows north into the United States through Calexico, passes through the Imperial Valley and drains into the Salton Sea, roughly 66 miles north of the international boundary, and the sub-watershed covers approximately 750 square miles, with 63 percent of that in Mexico and 37 percent in the United States; (3) the New River has been widely recognized for its significant water pollution problems, primarily because of agricultural runoff, raw sewage, pesticides, and discharges of wastes from domestic, agricultural, and industrial sources in Mexico and the Imperial Valley; (4) by the 1980s, the New River acquired the reputation of being one of the most polluted rivers in the United States, with many of the pollutants posing serious human health hazards to local populations, particularly those in Calexico and Mexicali; (5) in 1992, the International Boundary Water Commission’s Treaty Minute No. 288 established a sanitation strategy for the New River water quality problems at the international boundary and divided the sanitation projects into two immediate repairs projects, the Mexicali I and the Mexicali II, which totaled about $50 million dollars and were funded by both countries through the North American Development Bank; (6) in 1995, the Environmental Protection Agency provided funds to the California Regional Water Quality Control Board to monitor and document the water quality at the international boundary on a monthly basis