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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1326 
To enable a Bureau of Reclamation partnership with the North Bay Water 
Reuse Authority and other regional partners to achieve water supply, 
water quality, and environmental restoration objectives. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 15, 2005 
Mr. THOMPSON of California introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Resources 
A BILL 
To enable a Bureau of Reclamation partnership with the 
North Bay Water Reuse Authority and other regional 
partners to achieve water supply, water quality, and envi-
ronmental restoration objectives. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘North Bay Water 
Reuse Program Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act:
(1) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘‘eligible enti-
ty’’ means each of— 
(A) the Sonoma Valley County Sanitation 
District, Sonoma, California; 
(B) the Napa Sanitation District, Napa, 
California; 
(C) the City of American Canyon, Cali-
fornia; 
(D) the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary Dis-
trict, San Rafael, California; 
(E) the Novato Sanitary District, Novato, 
California; 
(F) the City of Petaluma, California; and 
(G) the Sonoma County Water Agency. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 3. NORTH BAY WATER REUSE PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may, through a co-
operative agreement with the State of California or a sub-
division thereof, participate in the planning, design, and 
construction of water reclamation and reuse projects in-
cluding water quality improvement, waste water treat-
ment, water reclamation and reuse, groundwater recharge 
and protection, surface water augmentation, and other im-
provements with eligible entities in the North San Pablo
Bay watershed in Napa, Sonoma, Marin, and Solano 
Counties, California. 
(b) COORDINATION WITH OTHER FEDERAL AGEN-
CIES.—In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall, 
to the greatest degree practicable, build upon the design 
work and environmental evaluation undertaken by non- 
Federal entities and by the Corps of Engineers in the San 
Pablo Bay Watershed, California. 
(c) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—All planning, de-
sign, and construction of a recycled water project author-
ized by this Act shall be undertaken in accordance with 
a cooperative agreement between the Secretary and the 
eligible entity for the project. Such cooperative agreement 
shall set forth in a manner acceptable to the Secretary 
the responsibilities of the eligible entity for— 
(1) needs assessment; 
(2) feasibility and reconnaissance studies; 
(3) environmental review; 
(4) engineering and design; 
(5) construction; and 
(6) the administration of contracts pertaining 
to any of the foregoing. 
(d) FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.—Upon execution of a 
cooperative agreement under this section, the Secretary 
may provide to the eligible entity, on the basis described
in section 4, the funds authorized, through direct loans, 
loan guarantees, or grants. 
SEC. 4. COST SHARING. 
(a) FEDERAL ASSISTANCE.—The Federal share of a 
project funded under this Act shall not exceed 65 percent 
of the total cost for planning, environmental evaluation, 
and construction of the project. 
(b) NON-FEDERAL COST SHARE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in sub-
section (c), the non-Federal cost share of the costs 
of a project funded under this Act shall be no less 
than 35 percent total cost for planning, environ-
mental evaluation, and construction of the project. 
(2) CREDIT
FOR
NON-FEDERAL
WORK.—The 
non-Federal interests with respect to a project fund-
ed under this Act shall receive credit toward the 
non-Federal share of the cost of the project— 
(A) for reasonable costs incurred by the 
non-Federal interests as a result of participa-
tion in the planning, design, and construction of 
the project; and 
(B) for the fair-market value of lands uti-
lized for project facilities and owned by eligible 
entities.
(c) OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE.—The non-Fed-
eral share of operation and maintenance costs of a project 
funded under this Act shall be 100 percent. 
(d) FEDERAL ASSISTANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IM-
PROVEMENT AND ENHANCEMENT.— 
(1) INITIAL
DEVELOPMENT.—The Secretary 
shall make grants and other funds available to eligi-
ble entities for the initial development of environ-
mental improvement and enhancement components 
of the North Bay Water Reuse Program. 
(2) 
NONREIMBURSABLE.—Grants 
provided 
under this Act shall be nonreimbursable and not 
subject to repayment. 
SEC. 5. WATER RIGHTS. 
Nothing in this Act— 
(1) invalidates or preempts State water law or 
any interstate compact governing water; 
(2) alters the rights of any State to any appro-
priated share of the waters of any body of surface 
or groundwater, whether determined by past or fu-
ture interstate compacts or final judicial allocations; 
(3) preempts or modifies any State or Federal 
law, or interstate compact, governing water quality 
or disposal; or
(4) confers on any non-Federal entity the abil-
ity to exercise any Federal right to the waters of any 
stream or to any groundwater resource. 
SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary to carry out this Act $65,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
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