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Providing Water to At-Risk Natural Desert Terminal Lakes

Program Information

Popular name

Desert Terminal Lakes Program

Program Number

15.508

Program objective

All funding has been obligated; no new projects expected before the Desert Terminal Lakes authority terminates October 1, 2026.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2017

    No information available. Through the end of Fiscal Year 2017, from the $525 million of available DTL Program funding, approximately $524 million has been obligated to Native American Tribes, federal, state and local agencies, non-profits, higher education and others and for program administration. The funding is used for environmental and conservation activities that affect Pyramid, Summit, and Walker lakes and associated watersheds in Nevada and California.

  2. 2018

    $1,850,000 of previously agreed upon funding obligated to awarded agreement. Contractors, consultants and cooperators for the Landscape Conservation Forecasting model were identified.

  3. 2019

    Landscape Conservation Forecasting modeling work was completed to determine probabilities of fires in the Truckee River canyon. A hydrologic and sedimentation model was also completed for a watershed study.

  4. 2020

    Approximately 57 grants, agreements, contracts and transfers have been completed and are closed or closing. Eleven are active and two grants pending.

  5. 2021

    Approximately 60 grants, agreements, contracts and transfers have been completed and are closed or closing. Eight are active and two grants are pending.

  6. 2023

    All funding has been obligated; however, unspent funds deobligated during the agreement close-out process became available to modify a grant to improve water measurement at the Derby Dam Fish Screen.

  7. 2024

    All funding has been obligated; no new projects expected before the Desert Terminal Lakes authority terminates October 1, 2026.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

2 CFR 200 UNIFORM ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS, COST PRINCIPLES, AND AUDIT REQUIREMENTS FOR FEDERAL AWARDS and the applicable OMB Circulars. These documents may also be obtained by contacting the Bureau of Reclamation Office listed below.

  1. Public Law 107-171, Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, Sec. 2507; Public Law 108-7, Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2003, Sec. 207 (to implement the Truckee River Settlement Act, P.L. 101-618); Public Law 108-137, Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004, Sec. 217; Public Law 109-103, Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006, Sec. 208; Public Law 110-161, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, Sec.207 and 208; Public Law 110-246, Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, Sec. 2807; Public Law 111-8, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009, Section 207 and 208; Public Law 111-85, Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010, Sec. 206-208; Public Law 111-88, Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010, Sec. 440.; Public Law 112-74, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 [H.R. 2055] Enacted 12/23/11, Title II, Division B, Sec. 208 a and b, and Public Law 113-79, Agricultural Act of 2014, Title II, Section 2507, Enacted 2/7/14. PL 115-4334, enacted 12/20/18.
  2. Pub. L. 117–361, §1, Jan. 5, 2023, 136 Stat. 6294; To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend terminal lakes assistance. NOTE: Jan. 5, 2023 - [S. 5328].

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Anyone/general public
  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Individual/Family
  • Local
  • Native American Organizations
  • Other private institution/organization
  • Other public institution/organization
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Profit organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • Quasi-public nonprofit organization
  • Small business
  • State

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