plan to guide water pollution control research,
development, and technology demonstration ac-
tivities under this Act.
‘‘(B) COMMENTS
OF
ADVISORY
COM-
MITTEE.—The program plan shall be submitted
to the Water Quality Research Technical Advi-
sory Committee established under paragraph
(3) for review and comment.
‘‘(3) WATER
QUALITY
RESEARCH
TECHNICAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—
‘‘(A) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 12
months after the date of enactment of this Act,
the Administrator shall establish under para-
graph (1)(D) a Water Quality Research Tech-
nical Advisory Committee (in this paragraph re-
ferred to as the ‘Advisory Committee’).
‘‘(B) DUTIES.—The Advisory Committee
shall—
‘‘(i) advise the Administrator on the
development and implementation of the
program plan under paragraph (1);
‘‘(ii) advise the Administrator annu-
ally on priority needs for water pollution
control research, development, and tech-
nology demonstration under this Act and
resources necessary for meeting such
needs;
‘‘(iii) make recommendations annually
to the Administrator on types of innovative
and alternative processes, materials, and
techniques that should be recommended for
additional 
subsidization 
under 
section
603(i); and
‘‘(iv) review annually the results of
water pollution control research, develop-
ment, and technology demonstration car-
ried out under this Act in the preceding
fiscal year.
‘‘(C) MEMBERSHIP.—The Advisory Com-
mittee shall be composed of 7 members ap-
pointed by the Administrator after seeking and
receiving recommendations from the National
Academy of Sciences. Members appointed to the
Advisory Committee shall have experience or be
technically qualified, by training or knowledge,
in water pollution control research, develop-
ment, and technology demonstration.
‘‘(D) COMPENSATION.—The members of
the Advisory Committee shall serve without
compensation, but shall receive travel expenses,
including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in ac-
cordance with sections 5702 and 5703 of title
5, United States Code.
‘‘(E) MEETINGS.—The Advisory Com-
mittee shall meet at least 4 times each year.
‘‘(F) TERMINATION.—The Advisory Com-
mittee shall terminate 5 years after the date of
its establishment.
‘‘(4) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.—Not later than
1 year after the date of enactment of the Water
Quality Research, Development, and Technology
Demonstration Act, and annually thereafter, the Ad-
ministrator shall transmit to Congress a report on
the status and results to date of the implementation
of the program plan prepared under paragraph (2).
Each report shall include the comments of the
Water Quality Research Technical Advisory Com-
mittee under paragraphs (2) and (3).’’.
SEC. 7. TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM FOR
WATER QUALITY ENHANCEMENT AND MAN-
AGEMENT.
Title I of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) is
amended—
(1) by redesignating the second section 121 (re-
lating to wet weather watershed pilot projects) as
section 122; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘SEC. 123. TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM FOR
WATER QUALITY ENHANCEMENT AND MAN-
AGEMENT.
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—As soon as practicable
after the date of enactment of this section, the Ad-
ministrator shall establish a nationwide demonstra-
tion program to—
‘‘(A) promote innovations in technology
and alternative approaches to water quality
management; and
‘‘(B) reduce costs to municipalities in-
curred in complying with this Act.
‘‘(2) SCOPE.—The demonstration program shall
consist of 10 projects per year, to be carried out in
municipalities selected by the Administrator under
subsection (b).
‘‘(b) SELECTION OF MUNICIPALITIES.—
‘‘(1) APPLICATION.—A municipality that seeks
to be selected to participate in the demonstration
program shall submit to the Administrator a plan
that—
‘‘(A) is developed in coordination with—
‘‘(i) the Water Quality Research
Technical Advisory Committee established
under section 104(a)(3);
‘‘(ii) the agency of the State having
jurisdiction over water quality; and
‘‘(iii) interested stakeholders;
‘‘(B) describes adverse water quality im-
pacts specific to surrounding ecosystems;
‘‘(C) includes a strategy under which the
municipality, through participation in the dem-
onstration program, could effectively address
those impacts and achieve the same water qual-
ity goals as those goals that could be achieved
using more traditional methods or are man-
dated under this Act; and
‘‘(D) includes a schedule for achieving the
goals of the municipality.
‘‘(2) TYPES OF PROJECTS.—In carrying out the
demonstration program, the Administrator may se-
lect projects which have the potential to advance in-
novative or alternative approaches to addressing—
‘‘(A) excessive nutrient growth;
‘‘(B) water reclamation and reuse;
‘‘(C) nonpoint source water pollution;
‘‘(D) sanitary overflows;
‘‘(E) combined sewer overflows;
‘‘(F) problems with naturally-occurring
constituents of concern; or
‘‘(G) problems with erosion and excess
sediment.
‘‘(3) RESPONSIBILITIES OF ADMINISTRATOR.—
In selecting municipalities under this subsection, the
Administrator shall—
‘‘(A) ensure, to the maximum extent
practicable—
‘‘(i) the inclusion in the demonstration
program of projects which reflect a broad
geographic distribution and nontraditional
approaches (including low-impact develop-
ment technologies) used for the projects;
and
‘‘(ii) that each category of project de-
scribed in paragraph (2) is adequately rep-
resented;
‘‘(B) give higher priority to projects that
address multiple problems and are regionally
applicable;
scribes the status and results of the demonstration
program.
‘‘(d) INCORPORATION OF RESULTS AND INFORMA-
TION.—To the maximum extent practicable, the Adminis-
trator shall incorporate the results of, and information ob-
tained from, successful projects under this section into
programs administered by the Administrator.
‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section
$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2003 through 2007.’’.
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