Safe Water and Nutrition Access Act

To provide assistance to communities for the emergency improvement of water systems, and other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Safe Water and Nutrition Access Act 2. Assistance to communities (a) Locally or regionally produced agricultural food products (1) In general The Secretary shall guarantee loans in accordance with section 310B(g)(9)(B) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act for projects in underserved communities in an eligible State. (2) Funding The Secretary shall use $5,000,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation for fiscal year 2016 to carry out paragraph (1). (b) Emergency and imminent community water assistance grants (1) Authority Notwithstanding subsections (e) and (f) of section 306A of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, the Secretary shall provide grants in accordance with such section to public or private nonprofit entities in an eligible State. (2) Funding Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation for fiscal year 2016, the Secretary shall use— (A) $30,000,000 to carry out section 306A of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act; and (B) $20,000,000 to carry out paragraph (1) of this subsection. (c) Water and waste disposal technical assistance and training grants Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall use to carry out section 306(a)(14)(A) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act— (1) $3,000,000 for fiscal year 2016; and (2) $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2017. (d) Rural water and wastewater circuit rider program Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall use to carry out section 306(a)(22)(A) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act— (1) $3,000,000 for fiscal year 2016; and (2) $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2017. (e) Healthy food financing initiative Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall use $5,000,000 to provide funds for eligible projects or partnerships under section 243(c)(2) of the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994, with priority given to eligible projects and partnerships to be carried out in an eligible State. (f) Availability An amount made available by this section may be obligated during the 5-year period that begins with the date the amount is first so made available. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Eligible state The term eligible State 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq. (2) Secretary The term Secretary (3) Underserved community The term underserved community 4. Sunset Effective at the end of the 5-year period that begins with the date any amount is first made available under a provision of this Act, that provision is repealed. 5. Offset No funds may be used to carry out a provision of this Act unless completely offset by a corresponding reduction in mandatory funds available for another program.

Summary: Safe Water and Nutrition Access Act This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to take the following actions regarding eligible states (states in which there is a community with respect to which the President has declared an emergency under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act relating to public health threats associated with the presence of lead or other contaminants in a public drinking water supply): guarantee loans to entities to process, distribute, aggregate, store, and market locally or regionally produced food under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (CFRDA) for projects in underserved communities in an eligible state, using specified Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds for FY2016; provide grants under the CFRDA's emergency and imminent community water assistance grant program to nonprofit entities in an eligible state, notwithstanding maximum population and income requirements or maximum grant limitations under such Act, using specified CCC funds for FY2016; use specified CCC funds for water and waste disposal technical assistance and training grants, and for the rural water and wastewater circuit rider program, in FY2016-FY2017; and use specified CCC funds for eligible projects or partnerships under USDA's healthy food financing initiative, with priority given to eligible projects and partnerships to be carried out in an eligible state. The bill allows such amounts to be obligated during the five-year period beginning with the date the amount is first made available, after which the provision under which such amount is provided shall expire. No funds may be used to carry out a provision of this bill unless completely offset by a corresponding reduction in mandatory funds available for another program.