1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Klamath Basin Water Agreement Support Act of 2024 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Klamath River Basin is home to important species of fish and wildlife and communities, including Tribal and agricultural communities. (2) Tribal fisheries in the Klamath River Basin are depressed, owing to a combination of factors. (3) In recent decades, the Klamath River Basin has witnessed chronic conflict, much of which has been fueled or exacerbated by implementation of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. (4) The United States has taken, and continues to take, extraordinary actions to attempt to address certain factors affecting Tribal fisheries. (5) The United States actions to enhance fisheries have included expenditures of several hundreds of millions of dollars for research and projects, including support of Tribal fisheries programs and imposition of regulatory burdens on other parties who make use of natural resources in the Klamath River Basin for their own livelihoods. (6) In the past 16 years, the Bureau of Reclamation has requested and received appropriations of approximately $136,000,000 for Endangered Species Act of 1973 compliance activities, even while denying water deliveries for irrigation and wildlife refuges served through Klamath Reclamation Project facilities. (7) Denial of water deliveries through Klamath Reclamation Project facilities has injured communities and wildlife severely but has not resulted in any identifiable benefit to populations of fish species listed as threatened or endangered. (8) The United States regulatory actions have also included the imposition of conditions on the generation of clean hydropower that have made hydropower uneconomical, such that a private utility has agreed to the removal of 4 dams that have produced renewable energy for over a century. (9) The removal of dams has been funded in substantial part by electric rate payers, including irrigation water users, in Oregon and California, who also are burdened with