[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4987 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4987

   To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the 
 construction of the Orange County Regional Water Reclamation Project.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 18, 1994

Mr. Kim (for himself, Mr. Cox, Mr. Dornan, Mr. Packard, and Mr. Royce) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the 
 construction of the Orange County Regional Water Reclamation Project.

    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 ``Orange County Regional Water 
Reclamation Project Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE RECLAMATION PROJECTS AUTHORIZATION AND 
              ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1992.

    Title XVI of the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment 
Act of 1992 (43 U.S.C. 390h et seq.) is amended by adding the following 
section:

``SEC. 1618. ORANGE COUNTY REGIONAL WATER RECLAMATION PROJECT.

    ``(a) The Secretary is authorized to participate with the Orange 
County Water District in the State of California, and other appropriate 
authorities, in the planning, design and construction of water 
reclamation projects to treat up to 100,000 acre feet per year of 
wastewater effluent from the county of Orange, in order to provide new 
water supplies for ground water replenishment, industrial applications 
and other beneficial purposes, to reduce the demand for imported water, 
and to reduce sewage effluent discharged into the ocean near Huntington 
Beach.
    ``(b) The Secretary's share of costs associated with the project 
described in section (a) shall not exceed 25 percent of the total. The 
Secretary shall not provide funds for operation or maintenance of the 
project.
    ``(c) There are authorized to be appropriated not more than 
$60,000,000 to carry out this section, plus or minus such amounts, if 
any, as may be required by reason of changes in construction costs as 
indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the type of 
construction involved.''.
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