[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2905 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2905

    To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to 
    the cities of New York, Los Angeles, and San Diego, the county 
    sanitation districts of Los Angeles County, the municipality of 
 metropolitan Seattle, and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority 
          for the construction of wastewater treatment works.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 5, 1993

  Mr. Tucker (for himself, Mr. Filner, Mr. Nadler, Mr. McDermott, Ms. 
   Cantwell, Mr. Kreidler, Mr. Horn, and Mr. Berman) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Public Works and 
                             Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to 
    the cities of New York, Los Angeles, and San Diego, the county 
    sanitation districts of Los Angeles County, the municipality of 
 metropolitan Seattle, and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority 
          for the construction of wastewater treatment works.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Coastal Cities Clean Water 
Initiative of 1993''.

SEC. 2. COASTAL CITIES WASTEWATER TREATMENT GRANTS.

    Title V of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1361-
1377) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating section 519 as section 520; and
            (2) by inserting after section 518 the following new 
        section:

``SEC. 519. COASTAL CITIES WASTEWATER TREATMENT GRANTS.

    ``(a) In General.--The Administrator shall make grants to the 
cities of New York, New York, Los Angeles, California, and San Diego, 
California, the county sanitation districts of Los Angeles County, 
California, the municipality of metropolitan Seattle, Washington, and 
the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority for constructing wastewater 
treatment works for the areas served by each such entity.
    ``(b) Apportionment.--For each fiscal year, the grants under this 
section shall be apportioned as follows: the city of New York, 
$70,000,000; the city of Los Angeles, $50,000,000; the city of San 
Diego, $40,000,000; the county sanitation districts of Los Angeles 
County, $50,000,000; the municipality of metropolitan Seattle, 
$35,000,000; and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, 
$100,000,000.
    ``(c) Federal Share.--The Federal share of a project under 
subsection (a) shall not exceed 75 percent of the cost of construction 
of the wastewater treatment works. The non-Federal share may be 
satisfied by any combination of public or private funds or in-kind 
services.
    ``(d) Limitation.--No funds appropriated to carry out this section 
shall be used to expand the capacity of the North River Waste Water 
Treatment Plant located in New York, New York.
    ``(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            ``(1) In general.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
        to carry out this section $345,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, 
        $345,000,000 for fiscal year 1995, and $345,000,000 for fiscal 
        year 1996.
            ``(2) Supplemental funds.--Funds made available under 
        paragraph (1) shall be used to supplement and not to supplant 
        other amounts made available under titles II and VI of this 
        Act.''.

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