[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2228 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2228

    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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 9, 2014

 Mr. Udall of New Mexico 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 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.

    Section 220 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1300) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d), 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--
                            ``(i) is served by a public water system 
                        with fewer than 3,000 connections; or
                            ``(ii) does not have a 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.'';
            (2) in subsection (i)(1)--
                    (A) in the first sentence--
                            (i) by striking ``wastewater or'' and 
                        inserting ``wastewater,''; and
                            (ii) by inserting before the period at the 
                        end the following: ``, or through conjunctively 
                        managing groundwater supplies by delivering 
                        surface water instead of groundwater''; and
                    (B) in the second sentence by inserting ``unless 
                the project requires those facilities to deliver the 
                alternative water supply'' before the period; and
            (3) in subsection (j), in the first sentence, by striking 
        ``2004'' and inserting ``2018''.
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