[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
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[S. 3025 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3025

To reauthorize and improve the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Restoration 
                        and Protection Program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 1, 2002

Mr. Sarbanes (for himself, Mr. Warner, and Ms. Mikulski) 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 reauthorize and improve the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Restoration 
                        and Protection Program.

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

SECTION 1. CHESAPEAKE BAY ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND PROTECTION 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 510 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 (110 
Stat. 3759) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d)(2), by adding at the end the 
        following:
                    ``(C) In-kind services.--A non-Federal interest may 
                provide all or any portion of the non-Federal share 
                referred to in paragraph (1) in the form of in-kind 
                services.'';
            (2) by striking subsection (i);
            (3) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (i);
            (4) by inserting after subsection (g) the following:
    ``(h) Small Watershed Grants.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall establish a program, 
        to be administered by the National Fish and Wildlife 
        Foundation, to provide small watershed grants for technical and 
        financial assistance to local governments and nonprofit 
        organizations in the Chesapeake Bay region.
            ``(2) Use of funds.--A local government or nonprofit 
        organization that receives a grant under paragraph (1) shall 
        use funds from the grant only for implementation of cooperative 
        tributary basin strategies that address the establishment, 
        restoration, protection, or enhancement of habitat associated 
        with the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem.''; and
            (5) by inserting after subsection (i) (as redesignated by 
        paragraph (3)) the following:
    ``(j) Funding.--
            ``(1) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated to carry out this section $30,000,000.
            ``(2) Annual grant expenditure.--Of the amount made 
        available under paragraph (1) to carry out this section for a 
        fiscal year, not more than 10 percent may be used to carry out 
        subsection (h) for the fiscal year.''.
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