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 ‘‘Alternative Water
Sources Act of 2000’’.
SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR ALTERNATIVE WATER SOURCE
PROJECTS.
Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act
(33 U.S.C. 1281 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end
the following:
‘‘SEC. 220. GRANTS FOR ALTERNATIVE WATER SOURCE
PROJECTS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator may make
grants to State, interstate, and intrastate water resource
development agencies (including water management dis-
tricts and water supply authorities), local government
agencies, private utilities, and nonprofit entities for alter-
native water source projects to meet critical water supply
needs.
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The Administrator may
make grants under this section to an entity only if the
entity has authority under State law to develop or provide
water for municipal, industrial, and agricultural uses in
an area of the State that is experiencing critical water
supply needs.
‘‘(c) SELECTION OF PROJECTS.—
‘‘(1) LIMITATION.—A project that has received
funds under the reclamation and reuse program con-
ducted under the Reclamation Projects Authoriza-
tion and Adjustment Act of 1992 (43 U.S.C. 390h
et seq.) shall not be eligible for grant assistance
under this section.
‘‘(2) ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATION.—In making
grants under this section, the Administrator shall
consider whether the project is located within the
boundaries of a State or area referred to in section
1 of the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat.
385), and within the geographic scope of the rec-
lamation and reuse program conducted under the
Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment
Act of 1992 (43 U.S.C. 390h et seq.).
‘‘(d) COMMITTEE RESOLUTION PROCEDURE.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—No appropriation shall be
made for any alternative water source project under
this section, the total Federal cost of which exceeds
$3,000,000, if such project has not been approved
by a resolution adopted by the Committee on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure of the House of Rep-
resentatives or the Committee on Environment and
Public Works of the Senate.
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS FOR SECURING CONSIDER-
ATION.—For purposes of securing consideration of
approval under paragraph (1), the Administrator
shall provide to a committee referred to in para-
graph (1) such information as the committee re-
quests and the non-Federal sponsor shall provide to
the committee information on the costs and relative
needs for the alternative water source project.
‘‘(e) USES OF GRANTS.—Amounts from grants re-
ceived under this section may be used for engineering, de-
sign, construction, and final testing of alternative water
source projects designed to meet critical water supply
needs. Such amounts may not be used for planning, feasi-
bility studies or for operation, maintenance, replacement,
repair, or rehabilitation.
‘‘(f) COST SHARING.—The Federal share of the eligi-
ble costs of an alternative water source project carried out
using assistance made available under this section shall
not exceed 50 percent.
‘‘(g) REPORTS.—
‘‘(1) REPORTS TO ADMINISTRATOR.—Each re-
cipient of a grant under this section shall submit to
the Administrator, not later than 18 months after
the date of receipt of the grant and biennially there-
after until completion of the alternative water source
project funded by the grant, a report on eligible ac-
tivities carried out by the grant recipient using
amounts from the grant.
‘‘(2) REPORT
TO
CONGRESS.—On or before
September 30, 2005, the Administrator shall trans-
mit to Congress a report on the progress made to-
ward meeting the critical water supply needs of the
grant recipients under this section.
‘‘(h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following
definitions apply:
‘‘(1) ALTERNATIVE WATER SOURCE PROJECT.—
The term ‘alternative water source project’ means a
project designed to provide municipal, industrial,
and agricultural water supplies in an environ-
mentally sustainable manner by conserving, man-
aging, reclaiming, or reusing water or wastewater or
by treating wastewater.
‘‘(2) CRITICAL
WATER
SUPPLY
NEEDS.—The
term ‘critical water supply needs’ means existing or
reasonably anticipated future water supply needs
that cannot be met by existing water supplies, as
identified in a comprehensive statewide or regional
water supply plan or assessment projected over a
planning period of at least 20 years.
‘‘(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section
$75,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2000 through 2004.
Such sums shall remain available until expended.’’.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT REGARD-
ING NOTICE.
(a) PURCHASE
OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT
AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or prod-
ucts that may be authorized to be purchased with financial
assistance provided under this Act (including any amend-
ment made by this Act), it is the sense of the Congress
that entities receiving such assistance should, in expending
the assistance, purchase only American-made equipment
and products.
(b) NOTICE
TO RECIPIENTS
OF ASSISTANCE.—In
providing financial assistance under this Act (including
any amendment made by this Act), the head of each Fed-
eral agency shall provide to each recipient of the assist-
ance a notice describing the statement made in subsection
(a) by the Congress.
(c) NOTICE OF REPORT.—Any entity which receives
funds under this Act shall report any expenditures on for-
eign-made items to the Congress within 180 days of the
expenditure.
Passed the House of Representatives May 4, 2000.
Attest:
Clerk.