National Water Supply Enhancement Act

Bill: 109-hr-3182
Sponsor: Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Authorization
California
Commercialization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Infrastructure
Laboratories
Refuse and refuse disposal
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Research grants
Saline waters
Science, Technology, Communications
Supercomputers
Technological innovations
Water purification
Water quality
Water supply
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
National Water Supply Enhancement Act - Reauthorizes the Water Desalination Act of 1996. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish an advanced water supply enhancement program and fund research, development, and demonstration projects for the development and commercialization of advanced water supply technologies and processes, including desalination.
 
Requires the Secretary to coordinate with a California federal research facility with experience working with state and local water authorities to carry out water treatment and water quality technology development: (1) focusing on efficient desalination and technologies for selective extraction of contaminants; (2) using resident advanced supercomputer modeling to optimize technology design; and (3) emphasizing unique new technologies, membranes, and materials, excluding incremental development of conventional technologies.
 
Directs the Secretary and the California facility to work with local water agencies and city governments in carrying out the program to find solutions for local water needs.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) submit a report to Congress that identifies federal research facilities around the United States that could serve as regional centers for water supply enhancement; and (2) conduct a study of the management and disposal of concentrates produced in the production of desalinated waters from coastal water and brackish water and evaluate possible solutions to the management and disposal of concentrates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House