[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4113 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4113

    To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the 
   Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to consider 
 projects involving rural communities in the selection of alternative 
             water source projects, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2014

 Mr. McNerney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the 
   Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to consider 
 projects involving rural communities in the selection of alternative 
             water source projects, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Water Enhancement Act of 
2014''.

SEC. 2. ALTERNATIVE WATER SOURCE PROJECTS.

    (a) Selection of Projects.--Section 220(d) of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1300(d)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
            ``(4) Participation of rural communities.--In making grants 
        under this section, the Administrator shall consider whether 
        the project--
                    ``(A) is located in an unincorporated rural 
                community;
                    ``(B) is located in an area that is served by a 
                public water system with fewer than 3,000 connections 
                or is located in an area with no public water system;
                    ``(C) is located in an agricultural area with rural 
                residences served by a public water system or by 
                private wells; or
                    ``(D) is not only a benefit to the rural community 
                served by the project, but also a benefit to additional 
                regional partners.''.
    (b) Definition of Alternative Water Source.--Section 220(i)(1) of 
such Act (33 U.S.C. 1300(i)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``wastewater or'' and inserting 
                ``wastewater,''; and
                    (B) by inserting before the period at the end the 
                following: ``, or through conjunctively managing 
                groundwater supplies by delivering surface water 
                instead of groundwater''; and
            (2) in the second sentence by inserting before the period 
        at the end the following: ``unless the project requires such 
        facilities to deliver the alternative water supply''.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 220(j) of such Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1300(j)) is amended by striking ``2004'' and inserting 
``2018''.
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