[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1409 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  1st Session
                                S. 1409

 To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 to modify the 
grant program to improve sanitation in rural and Native villages in the 
                            State of Alaska.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 14, 2005

 Ms. Murkowski 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 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 to modify the 
grant program to improve sanitation in rural and Native villages in the 
                            State of Alaska.

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

SECTION 1. GRANTS TO ALASKA TO IMPROVE SANITATION IN RURAL AND NATIVE 
              VILLAGES.

    Section 303 of the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 (33 
U.S.C. 1263a) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``50 percent'' and 
        inserting ``75 percent''; and
            (2) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) by striking ``$40,000,000'' and inserting 
                ``$45,000,000''; and
                    (B) by striking ``2005'' and inserting ``2010''.
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