1.Southwest Border Region Water
Task Force
(a)There shall be a task force to be known as
the Southwest Border Region Water Task Force
.
(b)
(1)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)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)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)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)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)In this section, the term Southwest border
region means the region described in section 15732 of title 40, United
States Code.