[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 137 (Monday, September 12, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S5578]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5045. Mr. BOOZMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 4979 proposed by Mr. McConnell (for Mr. Inhofe (for 
himself and Mrs. Boxer)) to the bill S. 2848, to provide for the 
conservation and development of water and related resources, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for 
improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 80___. EXEMPTION OF RURAL WATER PROJECTS FROM CERTAIN 
                   RENTAL FEES.

       Section 504(g) of the Federal Land Policy and Management 
     Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1764(g)) is amended in the eighth 
     sentence by inserting ``and for any rural water project 
     serving fewer than 3,300 individuals that is federally 
     financed (including a project that receives Federal funds 
     under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 
     U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) or from a State drinking water treatment 
     revolving loan fund established under section 1452 of the 
     Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12)) (referred to in 
     this subsection as a `covered project'), subject to the 
     requirement that the total amount of rental fees that may be 
     exempted with respect to covered projects shall not exceed 
     $50,000 in any 1 year'' after ``such facilities''.
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