Title: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award additional funding through the Indian Health Services Sanitation Facilities Construction Program, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to award through FY2024 additional funds to the Indian Health Service Sanitation Facilities Construction Program. This program provides American Indian and Alaska Native homes and communities with water supply, sewage disposal, and solid waste disposal facilities.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7056 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7056

     To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award 
   additional funding through the Indian Health Services Sanitation 
        Facilities Construction Program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 28, 2020

  Mr. O'Halleran (for himself and Mr. Young) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in 
 addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
     To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award 
   additional funding through the Indian Health Services Sanitation 
        Facilities Construction Program, 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. FINDING.

    The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the lack of infrastructure and 
sanitation available in native communities. Addressing the Indian 
Health Service's Sanitation Facilities Deficiency List, which as 
included in the 2018 report titled ``Annual Report to the Congress of 
the United States on Sanitation Deficiency Levels for Indian Homes and 
Communities'', will make investments in the necessary water 
infrastructure and, in turn, improve health outcomes.

SEC. 2. INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES SANITATION FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION 
              PROGRAM FUNDING.

    (a) Additional Funding.--For the purpose described in subsection 
(b), in addition to any other funds available for such purpose, there 
is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services a total of $2,670,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 
through 2024.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose described in this subsection is the 
planning, design, construction, modernization, improvement, and 
renovation of water, sewer, and solid waste sanitation facilities that 
are funded, in whole or part, by the Indian Health Service through, or 
provided for in, a contract or compact with the Service under the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5301 
et seq.).
    (c) Priority for Funding.--When awarding funding under this 
section, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the 
Director of the Indian Health Service, shall address the highest needs 
first as established in the 2018 report titled ``Annual Report to the 
Congress of the United States on Sanitation Deficiency Levels for 
Indian Homes and Communities''.
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