Major investments for Montana's water infrastructure and public lands have passed a final hurdle, senators Jon Tester and Max Baucus announced Thursday.

That means that Butte will receive $500,000 to help replace the Big Hole River diversion dam that supplies 70 percent of the city's drinking water.

Other projects in southwest Montana include $1 million to purchase land near the Red Rock Lake National Wildlife Refuge by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  Another $1 million to buy wildlife habitat in Powell County in the Nora Gulch area and $2 million for the Gallatin National Forest to purchase abandoned mine sites near Cooke City and Yellowstone National Park.

The legislation also includes $1 million to fund a Wolf Kill Bill for the coming year.  The bill repays ranchers who lose animals to wolves and improves methods for keeping wolves away from livestock.