[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8891 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8891

 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to San 
           Francisco Bay restoration, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 28, 2024

 Mr. Huffman (for himself, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. DeSaulnier, 
  Ms. Eshoo, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Khanna, and Mr. 
   Thompson of California) 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 with respect to San 
           Francisco Bay restoration, 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. SAN FRANCISCO BAY RESTORATION PROGRAM.

    Section 125 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1276a) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``grant''; and
            (2) by amending subsection (e) to read as follows:
    ``(e) Funding Program.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Director may provide funding through 
        cooperative agreements, grants, interagency agreements, 
        contracts, or other funding mechanisms to Federal, State, and 
        local agencies, special districts, public or nonprofit 
        agencies, and other public or private entities, institutions, 
        and organizations, including the Estuary Partnership, for 
        projects, activities, and studies identified on the annual 
        priority list compiled under subsection (c).
            ``(2) Maximum amount of funding.--
                    ``(A) Grants.--
                            ``(i) Maximum amount.--Amounts provided in 
                        the form of a grant to any entity under this 
                        section for a fiscal year shall not exceed an 
                        amount equal to 75 percent of the total cost of 
                        any projects, activities, and studies that are 
                        to be carried out using those amounts.
                            ``(ii) Non-federal share.--Not less than 25 
                        percent of the cost of any project, activity, 
                        or study carried out using amounts provided in 
                        the form of a grant under this section shall be 
                        provided from non-Federal sources.
                    ``(B) Interagency agreements and contracts.--
                Amounts provided to entities under interagency 
                agreements, contracts, or other funding mechanisms 
                under this section may cover up to 100 percent of the 
                total cost of any projects, activities, and studies 
                that are to be carried out using those amounts.''.
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