To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 and the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to provide assistance to non-Federal interests for water-related environmental infrastructure projects in northern and southern West Virginia, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-6719
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2022-02-11
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Latest action: action_date: 2022-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-02-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill provides for furnishing assistance to nonfederal interests for water-related, environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects in northern and southern West Virginia. </p> <p>The bill includes Gilmer, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Jackson, Roane, Clay, Wirt, Calhoun, Braxton, and Pendleton counties in central West Virginia as part of the Southern West Virginia Environmental Restoration Infrastructure and Resource Protection Development Pilot Program.</p> <p>The bill redesignates the area of the pilot program to provide environmental assistance to nonfederal interests in central West Virginia to that of northern West Virginia. </p> <p>The bill replaces the definition of the counties comprising central West Virginia with a definition of the counties comprising northern West Virginia.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6719 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 11, 2022 Mr. McKinley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 and the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to provide assistance to non-Federal interests for water-related environmental infrastructure projects in northern and southern West Virginia, and for other purposes.

1. Southern West Virginia environmental restoration infrastructure and resource protection development pilot program Section 340(f) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4856) is amended by inserting Gilmer, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Jackson, Roane, Clay, Wirt, Calhoun, Braxton, Pendleton, before Raleigh . 2. Northern West Virginia Section 571 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (113 Stat. 371) is amended— (1) in the section heading by striking central and inserting northern ; (2) by striking central and inserting northern each place it appears; and (3) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following: (a) Definition of northern West Virginia In this section, the term northern West Virginia means the counties of Lewis, Upshur, Randolph, Hardy, Hampshire, Morgan, Berkeley, Jefferson, Hancock, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Tyler, Pleasants, Wood, Doddridge, Monongalia, Marion, Harrison, Taylor, Barbour, Preston, Tucker, Mineral, Grant, Brooke, and Ritchie, West Virginia. .