PRIDE Plus Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to establish a program to provide environmental assistance to non-Federal interests in specified counties in northern and northeastern Kentucky. Permits such assistance to be in the form of design and construction assistance for publicly owned water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects, including projects for wastewater treatment, water supply, environmental restoration, and surface water resource protection and development.
Requires the Secretary to enter into a local cooperation agreement with a non-Federal interest to provide for design and construction of a project, which provides for: (1) development by the Secretary of a facilities or resource protection and development plan; and (2) establishment of legal and institutional structures to ensure the effective long-term operation of the project by the non-Federal interest.
Sets the Federal share of the project costs under each local cooperation agreement at 75 percent. Directs that the non-Federal interest receive specified credit for design work, interest, land, easements, rights-of-way, and relocations. Sets the non-Federal share of project operation and maintenance costs at 100 percent.
[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4645 Introduced in House (IH)]
108th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4645
To authorize the Secretary of the Army to provide Federal assistance
for environmental infrastructure projects in northern and northeastern
Kentucky.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 22, 2004
Mr. Lucas of Kentucky introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of the Army to provide Federal assistance
for environmental infrastructure projects in northern and northeastern
Kentucky.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``PRIDE Plus Act''.
SEC. 2. NORTHERN AND NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY.
(a) Northern and Northeastern Kentucky Defined.--In this section,
the term ``Northern and Northeastern Kentucky'' means the counties of
Bath, Boone, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Carter, Elliot, Fleming,
Gallatin, Grant, Greenup, Harrison, Henry, Kenton, Lewis, Mason,
Nicholas, Oldham, Owen, Pendleton, Robertson, Scott, and Trimble,
Kentucky.
(b) Establishment of Program.--The Secretary of the Army may
establish a program to provide environmental assistance to non-Federal
interests in Northern and Northeastern Kentucky.
(c) Form of Assistance.--Assistance under this section may be in
the form of design and construction assistance for water-related
environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development
projects in Northern and Northeastern Kentucky, including projects for
wastewater treatment and related facilities, water supply and related
facilities, environmental restoration, and surface water resource
protection and development.
(d) Public Ownership Requirement.--The Secretary may provide
assistance for a project under this section only if the project is
publicly owned.
(e) Local Cooperation Agreements.--
(1) In general.--Before providing assistance under this
section, the Secretary shall enter into a local cooperation
agreement with a non-Federal interest to provide for design and
construction of the project to be carried out with the
assistance.
(2) Requirements.--Each local cooperation agreement entered
into under this subsection shall provide for the following:
(A) Plan.--Development by the Secretary, in
consultation with appropriate Federal and State
officials, of a facilities or resource protection and
development plan, including appropriate engineering
plans and specifications.
(B) Legal and institutional structures.--
Establishment of such legal and institutional
structures as are necessary to ensure the effective
long-term operation of the project by the non-Federal
interest.
(3) Cost sharing.--
(A) In general.--The Federal share of the project
costs under each local cooperation agreement entered
into under this subsection shall be 75 percent. The
Federal share may be in the form of grants or
reimbursements of project costs.
(B) Credit for design work.--The non-Federal
interest shall receive credit for the reasonable costs
of design work completed by the non-Federal interest
before entering into a local cooperation agreement with
the Secretary for a project.
(C) Credit for interest.--In case of a delay in the
funding of the non-Federal share of a project that is
the subject of an agreement under this section, the
non-Federal interest shall receive credit for
reasonable interest incurred in providing the non-
Federal share of the project's costs.
(D) Land, easements, and rights-of-way credit.--The
non-Federal interest shall receive credit for land,
easements, rights-of-way, and relocations toward the
non-Federal share of project costs (including all
reasonable costs associated with obtaining permits
necessary for the construction, operations, and
maintenance of the project on publicly owned or
controlled land), but not to exceed 25 percent of total
project costs.
(E) Operations and maintenance.--The non-Federal
share of operation and maintenance costs for projects
constructed with assistance provided under this section
shall be 100 percent.
(f) Applicability of Other Federal and State Laws.--Nothing in this
section waives, limits, or otherwise affects the applicability of any
provision of Federal or State law that would otherwise apply to a
project to be carried out with assistance provided under this section.
(g) Report.--Not later than December 31, 2005, the Secretary shall
transmit to Congress a report on the results of the program carried out
under this section, including a recommendation concerning whether the
program should be implemented on a national basis.
(h) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be
appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000. Such funds shall
remain available until expended.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
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