chairwoman del oro ranking membergranger chairwoman captor and rankingmember simpson thank you for theopportunity to discuss this amendmentand the importance of this issue thisamendment addresses my amendment numberone would address water storage capacityissues in the state of california wedesperately need to increase waterstorage capacity and work to repair andrestore the existing storageinfrastructure we already havethe amendment would extend the storageprovision of subtitle j of the win actthrough the end of 2023.congress failed that extending thesubtitle j last year and let it expireat the end of 2021 the extension wouldallow an increase in water storageprojects that could benefit the users ofcentral valley projectand agriculture producers and localcommunities in my district that mycommunity district relies onalthough we are currently in the midstof a devastating drought in californiait is imperative we prepare for the wetyears so we can so we're not as bad offin the next drought it is difficult toaccept that we could have done more toprevent experiencing the severity of thecurrent droughtwhile we cannot prevent droughts fromhappening we must act now so that we canprevent this from happening again in thefuture the fertile farmlands of thecentral valleyof california depend on water contractedto the central valley project in thestate water project and deliveredlargely by way of canals after dealingwith years of drought and inadequatewater storage farmers have had to turnto pumping groundwater to protect theircrops and townshave been forcedmore groundwater to meet their needs asa result these communities haveexperienced land subsidence at theexpense of critical water infrastructurein the past decade and a half land in mydistrict has sunken eleven and a halffeet contributing to significant damageto the fryant current canal the deltamendota canal and the californiaaqueduct the california aqueduct is thewater that supplies water to southerncalifornia beyond the grapevine tourquite a few people the majority of thepopulation actually livesdamage caused by land subsidence hassignificantly reduced the carryingcapacity of these canals which meansobligations are unable to be fully metand communities are compelled to pumpmore groundwaterin an effort to address this issue myamendment number one would also create aprogram to assist in funding the repairsto damaged canal infrastructurefacilities unless these canals arecompletely restored the issue ofsubsidence and resulting unnecessarywater loss will continue and conditionswill worsen i appreciate the opportunityto discuss this importantof this amendment and thank you i urgeall my colleagues to support thisamendment and i yield back