[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3251]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1804. Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself and Mr. Padilla) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. 
Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new Directorate for 
Technology and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to 
establish a regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and 
report on economic security, science, research, innovation, 
manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical supply chain 
resiliency program, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. ROLE OF THE COMMISSIONER AND INTERNATIONAL 
                   AGREEMENTS.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
     Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
       (2) Commissioner.--The term ``Commissioner'' means the 
     Commissioner of the United States Section of the 
     International Boundary and Water Commission.
       (3) New River.--The term ``New River'' means the river that 
     starts in Mexicali, Mexico, flows north into the United 
     States through Calexico, passes through the Imperial Valley, 
     and drains into the Salton Sea.
       (4) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
     of State.
       (5) Tijuana River.--The term ``Tijuana River'' means the 
     river that rises in the Sierra de Juarez in Mexico, flows 
     through the City of Tijuana and then north into the United 
     States, passes through the Tijuana River estuary, and drains 
     into the Pacific Ocean.
       (b) Wastewater and Stormwater Authority.--The Commissioner 
     may study, design, construct, operate, and maintain projects 
     to manage, improve, and protect the quality of wastewater, 
     stormwater runoff, and other untreated flows in the Tijuana 
     River watershed and the New River watershed.
       (c) Tijuana and New River Projects Within the United 
     States.--The Secretary, acting through the Commissioner, 
     shall--
       (1) construct, operate, and maintain projects that--
       (A) are on a priority list developed by the Environmental 
     Protection Agency for projects in the Tijuana River watershed 
     or New River watershed;
       (B) are within the United States; and
       (C) improve the water quality of the Tijuana River 
     watershed or the New River watershed, as applicable; and
       (2) use available funds, including funds received from the 
     Administrator, to construct, operate, and maintain the 
     projects described in paragraph (1).
       (d) Agreements With Mexico.--The Secretary, acting through 
     the Commissioner, may execute an agreement with the 
     appropriate official or officials of the Government of Mexico 
     for--
       (1) the joint study and design of stormwater control and 
     water quality projects; and
       (2) on approval of the necessary plans and specifications 
     of the projects described in paragraph (1), the construction, 
     operation, and maintenance of those projects by the United 
     States and Mexico, in accordance with the treaty relating to 
     the utilization of the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana 
     Rivers, and of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) from Fort Quitman, 
     Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico, and supplementary protocol, 
     signed at Washington February 3, 1944 (59 Stat. 1219), 
     between the United States and Mexico.
       (e) Savings Provision.--Nothing in this section limits the 
     authority of the International Boundary and Water Commission 
     any other provision of law.
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