[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 119 (Tuesday, July 23, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5231]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2963. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 10__. 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 striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:
       ``(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 project, activity, or study 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 not described 
     in subparagraph (A) may cover up to 100 percent of the total 
     cost of any project, activity, or study that is to be carried 
     out using those amounts.''.
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