[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4719 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4719

        To establish a Southwest Border Region Water Task Force.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 2010

Mr. Rodriguez (for himself, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Teague, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. 
   Hinojosa, and Mr. Reyes) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
        To establish a Southwest Border Region Water Task Force.

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

SECTION 1. SOUTHWEST BORDER REGION WATER TASK FORCE.

    (a) Establishment.--There shall be a task force to be known as the 
``Southwest Border Region Water Task Force''.
    (b) Composition.--
            (1) In general.--The task force shall be composed of one 
        representative of each of the following entities, to be 
        appointed by the head of the entity--
                    (A) the Southwest Border Regional Commission;
                    (B) the Environmental Protection Agency;
                    (C) the Department of Agriculture;
                    (D) the Department of Housing and Urban 
                Development;
                    (E) the Army Corps of Engineers;
                    (F) the Economic Development Administration;
                    (G) the Indian Health Service;
                    (H) the Bureau of Reclamation; and
                    (I) any relevant State agency (within the meaning 
                given in paragraph (2)).
            (2) ``Relevant state agency''.--In paragraph (1)(I), the 
        term ``relevant State agency'' means any State agency 
        designated for the purpose of this paragraph by the Governor of 
        Arizona, California, New Mexico, or Texas.
    (c) Assessment Functions.--The task force shall--
            (1) assess the water needs of communities in the Southwest 
        border region;
            (2) assess whether those needs are being met; and
            (3) if those needs are not being met, make proposals as to 
        how those needs could be met.
    (d) Coordination Functions.--The task force shall establish 
procedures--
            (1) for determining the relative priority of water projects 
        in the Southwest border region;
            (2) for coordinating the policies of the entities specified 
        in subsection (b)(1), so far as those policies relate to 
        meeting the water needs of communities in the Southwest border 
        region; and
            (3) for coordinating the activities of the entities 
        specified in subsection (b)(1), so far as those activities are 
        aimed at meeting the water needs of communities in the 
        Southwest border region.
    (e) Reports.--The task force shall prepare a report every 6 months 
on the carrying out of its functions under subsections (c) and (d). The 
task force shall--
            (1) submit a copy of each report to Congress, and
            (2) make a copy of each report available to the public.
    (f) Southwest Border Region.--In this section, the term ``Southwest 
border region'' means the region described in section 15732 of title 
40, United States Code.
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