To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of the Groundwater Replenishment System Expansion to reclaim and reuse municipal wastewater in the Orange County, California region, and for other purposes.

Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to provide for a federal share of a water reclamation, reuse, and treatment project in the Orange County, California region of not to exceed the lesser of 25% of total costs or $26 million (indexed to January 2010 prices). Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from providing funds for project operations and maintenance.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5039 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5039

     To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and 
     Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
     participate in the design, planning, and construction of the 
    Groundwater Replenishment System Expansion to reclaim and reuse 
 municipal wastewater in the Orange County, California region, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 15, 2010

Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California introduced the following bill; which 
           was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and 
     Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
     participate in the design, planning, and construction of the 
    Groundwater Replenishment System Expansion to reclaim and reuse 
 municipal wastewater in the Orange County, California region, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA REGION, WATER RECLAMATION PROJECT.

    (a) In General.--The Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study 
and Facilities Act (title XVI of Public Law 102-575; 43 U.S.C. 390h et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. __. ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA REGION, WATER RECLAMATION, REUSE, 
              AND TREATMENT PROJECT.

    ``(a) Cost Share.--The Federal share of the costs of the project 
described in subsection (a) shall not exceed the lesser of the 
following:
            ``(1) 25 percent of the total costs.
            ``(2) $26,000,000 (indexed to January 2010 prices).
    ``(b) Limitation.--The Secretary shall not provide funds for the 
operations and maintenance of the project described in subsection 
(a).''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections in section 2 of the 
Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 is 
amended by inserting after the last item the following:

``SEC. __. ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA REGION, WATER RECLAMATION, REUSE, 
              AND TREATMENT PROJECT.''.

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