[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1634 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1634

    To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide cost share 
  assistance for projects designed to improve the supply of water in 
 rural areas that are experiencing severe problems with the quality or 
                           quantity of water.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 1993

  Mr. Rogers introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide cost share 
  assistance for projects designed to improve the supply of water in 
 rural areas that are experiencing severe problems with the quality or 
                           quantity of water.

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

SECTION 1. COST SHARE ASSISTANCE FOR RURAL WATER SUPPLY.

    The Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act is amended by 
inserting after section 3A (16 U.S.C. 1003a) the following:

``SEC. 3B. COST SHARE ASSISTANCE FOR RURAL WATER SUPPLY.

    ``(a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Secretary shall 
provide 100 percent of the cost of constructing reservoirs and other 
surface facilities for the storage of water, to increase the supply of 
water in rural areas.
    ``(b) Purpose.--In order to qualify for assistance under this 
section, a project must be designed to increase the supply of water in 
a community in a rural area that is experiencing a severe problem with 
the quality or quantity of water.
    ``(c) Rural Area Defined.--As used in this section, the term `rural 
area' means any territory of a State that is not within the outer 
boundary of any city having a population of 10,000 or more, according 
to the latest decennial census of the United States.''.

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