[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2231 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2231

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the 
  ``Clean Water Act'') to authorize appropriations for each of fiscal 
 years 1994 through 2001 for the construction of wastewater treatment 
 works to provide water pollution control in or near the United States-
              Mexico border area, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                June 23 (legislative day, June 7), 1994

    Mr. Bingaman (for himself, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. DeConcini, and Mrs. 
  Hutchison) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the 
  ``Clean Water Act'') to authorize appropriations for each of fiscal 
 years 1994 through 2001 for the construction of wastewater treatment 
 works to provide water pollution control in or near the United States-
              Mexico border area, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``U.S.-Mexico Border Water Pollution 
Control Act''.

SEC. 2. WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS IN U.S.-MEXICO BORDER AREA.

    Title V of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1361 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

        ``wastewater treatment works in u.s.-mexico border area

    ``Sec. 520. (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to protect 
the economy, public health, environment, surface water, ground water, 
and water quality of the U.S.-Mexico border area which is endangered 
and is being polluted by raw or partially treated sewage, in 
furtherance of the goals of the Agreement Between the Government of the 
United States of America and the Government of the United Mexican 
States Concerning the Establishment of a Border Environment Cooperation 
Commission and a North American Development Bank (signed November 16 
and 18, 1993), and this Act. This section shall not be construed so as 
to affect or impair the provisions of any international agreement of 
the United States. Nor shall this section be construed so as to affect 
or impair any Federal legislation applicable to the Border Environment 
Cooperation Commission, the North American Development Bank, or the 
International Boundary and Water Commission, the United States and 
Mexico.
    ``(b) Financial Assistance for Wastewater Treatment Works.--The 
Administrator is authorized to provide financial and other assistance 
to the Border Environment Cooperation Commission, any appropriate 
Federal, State, or local governmental entity, and the International 
Boundary and Water Commission, the United States and Mexico, subject to 
such terms and conditions as the Administrator considers appropriate, 
for planning, design, and construction of wastewater treatment works 
for the purposes specified in subsection (a). The wastewater treatment 
works shall be located, regardless of the place of origin or ultimate 
destination of the wastewater, in the U.S.-Mexico border area (or near 
the U.S.-Mexico border area if the treatment works would remedy a 
transboundary environmental or health problem) and shall be planned, 
designed, and constructed in accordance with any applicable 
international agreement to which the United States is a party.
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for fiscal year 
1994, $47,500,000 for fiscal year 1995, $100,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 1996 through 2000, and $22,000,000 for fiscal year 2001.''.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF U.S.-MEXICO BORDER AREA.

    Section 502 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1362) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(21) The term `U.S.-Mexico border area' has the meaning the term 
has under Article 4 of the Agreement Between the United States of 
America and the United Mexican States on Cooperation for the Protection 
and Improvement of the Environment in the Border Area (signed on August 
14, 1983; commonly known as the `La Paz Agreement').''.

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