[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 155 (Saturday, September 27, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S10007]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. HATCH:
  S. 3645. A bill to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater 
Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
participate in the Magna Water District water reuse and groundwater 
recharge project, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources.
  Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise to introduce legislation that would 
assist the Magna Water District of Utah to implement a water reuse and 
groundwater recharge project. The district faces perchlorate-
contaminated wells due to decades of rocket motor production at a 
Department of Defense site operated by Hercules, ATK launch Systems. To 
address this, the water district has developed a bio-destruction 
process which combines wastewater and desalination brine stream to 
destroy perchlorate. This technology gives DOD what it needs to broadly 
address perchlorate issues at multiple sites in a way that is quicker 
and cheaper than existing technologies and processes.
  This bill, would authorize a 25 percent Federal match for the total 
cost of this project. In truth, the district has already invested a 
significant amount of its own funds and is now seeking funds from the 
federal government on a matching basis. It is critically important for 
Magna to maintain high quality drinking water for irrigation and 
preserve the community's valuable water resources while finding a 
beneficial use of treated domestic and industrial wastewater to destroy 
a harmful plume of the contaminate perchlorate, that threatens the 
water resources of this community.
  We have but a few days left in this session of the 110th Congress but 
I feel it important to introduce this bill and ask my colleagues to 
please review it. I plan on reintroducing this bill early in the 111th 
Congress and will work on ensuring its passage next year.
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