[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2922 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2922

 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for grant 
   funding of the Columbus Combined Sewer Overflow Advanced Research 
                    Project and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 1993

  Mr. Collins of Georgia (for himself and Mr. Bishop) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred jointly to the Committees on 
   Science, Space, and Technology and Public Works and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for grant 
   funding of the Columbus Combined Sewer Overflow Advanced Research 
                    Project 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. COLUMBUS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECT.

    Title I of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, as 
amended, is amended by inserting after section 118 the following new 
section:

      ``columbus combined sewer overflow advanced research project

    ``Sec. 119. (a) The Administrator shall make a grant to the City of 
Columbus, Georgia, for constructing wastewater treatment works known as 
the Columbus Combined Sewer Overflow Advanced Research Project to 
conduct research and demonstrate the use of combined technologies 
including (1) flow-through wastewater treatment, (2) chemical 
precipitation, (3) air flotation, and (4) nonchemical disinfection, and 
for providing information to other municipalities on the results of the 
Advanced Research Project.
    ``(b) The Federal share of projects described in subsection (a) of 
this section shall be 85 percent of the cost of construction of the 
wastewater treatment works and of providing information to other 
municipalities. The non-Federal share of such cost may include, in any 
amount, public and private funds and inkind services.
    ``(c) For the purpose of making the grant under this section, there 
is authorized to be appropriated, for the period beginning on the first 
day of fiscal year 1994, an amount equal to $17,000,000, which amount 
shall remain available until expended.''.

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