Title: A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a pilot competitive grant program for improving the sharing of water quality data, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a pilot program that awards grants to certain states for the creation of systems that improve the sharing of information concerning water quality, sources of water pollution, and water infrastructure needs among local governments.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2767 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2767

 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a pilot 
 competitive grant program for improving the sharing of water quality 
                     data, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 31, 2019

    Mr. Jones (for himself and Mr. Scott of Florida) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                      Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a pilot 
 competitive grant program for improving the sharing of water quality 
                     data, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. WATER QUALITY DATA SHARING PILOT PROGRAM.

    Title V of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is amended--
            (1) by redesignating section 520 (33 U.S.C. 1251 note) as 
        section 521; and
            (2) by inserting after section 519 (33 U.S.C. 1377a) the 
        following:

``SEC. 520. WATER QUALITY DATA SHARING PILOT PROGRAM.

    ``(a) Establishment.--The Administrator shall establish a 
competitive grant pilot program (referred to in this section as the 
`pilot program') under which the Administrator may award grants to 
eligible States under subsection (b) to establish systems that improve 
the sharing of information concerning water quality, sources of water 
pollution, and water infrastructure needs among counties and other 
units of local government of the State, which may include--
            ``(1) establishing a website or data hub to exchange water 
        quality data; and
            ``(2) inter-county communications initiatives related to 
        water quality.
    ``(b) Eligible States.--A State shall be eligible for a grant under 
the pilot program if the State--
            ``(1) has a coastal watershed with significant pollution 
        levels; and
            ``(2) has counties or other units of local government with 
        significant individual wastewater infrastructure deficits.
    ``(c) Applications.--To be eligible to receive a grant under the 
pilot program, an eligible State under subsection (b) shall submit to 
the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and 
containing such information as the Administrator may require.
    ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out the pilot program such sums as are necessary 
for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2025.''.
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