[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5243 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5243

 To rescind certain amounts appropriated for Internal Revenue Service 
   enforcement and COVID-19 relief and authorize such amounts to be 
     redirected to water-related projects, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 18, 2023

  Mr. Santos introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on 
Appropriations, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, 
 and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To rescind certain amounts appropriated for Internal Revenue Service 
   enforcement and COVID-19 relief and authorize such amounts to be 
     redirected to water-related 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 ``Less Talk More Action Water 
Modernization Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. RESCISSION AND REDIRECTION OF CERTAIN AMOUNTS TO WATER-RELATED 
              PROJECTS.

    (a) Rescission of Unexpended IRS Funds.--The unexpended balance of 
amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for activities of the 
Internal Revenue Service by section 10301 of Public Law 117-169 on the 
date of the enactment of this Act are hereby permanently rescinded.
    (b) Rescission of Unexpended COVID-19 Funds.--The unexpended 
balance of amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for COVID-
19 relief by each of Public Laws 116-123, 116-127, 116-136, 116-139, 
117-2, and divisions M and N of Public Law 116-260 on the date of the 
enactment of this Act are hereby permanently rescinded.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) In general.--There are authorized to be appropriated, 
        for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2026, provided that such 
        funds are fully obligated by December 13, 2023--
                    (A) to the Administrator of the Environmental 
                Protection Agency--
                            (i) for the Clean Water State Revolving 
                        Funds under title VI of the Federal Water 
                        Pollution Control Act, $1,103,000,000; and
                            (ii) for the Drinking Water State Revolving 
                        Funds under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking 
                        Water Act, $665,400,000; and
                    (B) for projects pertaining to water 
                infrastructure, water conveyance and storage, safety, 
                hydropower generation, water treatment and water 
                contamination remediation, modernization projects, and 
                dam development--
                            (i) under the direction of the Secretary of 
                        the Army and the supervision of the Chief of 
                        Engineers for authorized civil functions of the 
                        Department of the Army, $1,900,000,000; and
                            (ii) to the Department of the Interior for 
                        the Bureau of Reclamation, $1,163,400,000,
                provided that at least $200,000,000 of such amounts 
                shall be allocated to the Northeast region of the 
                United States, including Long Island and New York City, 
                for water-related projects.
            (2) Chinese debt obligations.--In the event that the 
        amounts rescinded under subsections (a) and (b) are not equal 
        to or greater than the amounts authorized under paragraph (1), 
        amounts necessary to equal amounts authorized under such 
        paragraph shall be authorized to be paid before amounts 
        necessary for payments with respect to Federal Government 
        notes, bonds, and other securities held by the People's 
        Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party.
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