[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3264 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3264

  To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the 
             Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 5, 2012

  Mr. Vitter (for himself and Ms. Landrieu) 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 to reauthorize the 
             Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program.

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

SECTION 1. LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN BASIN RESTORATION PROGRAM.

    Section 121 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1273) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d), by inserting ``to pay not more than 
        75 percent of the costs'' after ``make grants''; and
            (2) in subsection (f)(1), in the first sentence, by 
        striking ``for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2011'' and 
        inserting ``or the lowest amount appropriated to carry out this 
        section for any of the preceding 5 fiscal years, whichever is 
        less, for each of fiscal years 2013 through 2017''.
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