Desalination Research Advancement Act

Desalination Research Advancement Act

This bill reauthorizes through FY2026 the Desalination and Water Purification Research Program at the Bureau of Reclamation and increases the amount of funding available to institutions of higher education. The bill also expands the program's research priorities to include minimizing the impacts of seawater desalination on aquatic life and coastal ecosystems.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7612 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7612

To advance desalination research and technological innovation, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 28, 2022

   Mr. Levin of California (for himself and Ms. Mace) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
  Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To advance desalination research and technological innovation, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Desalination Research Advancement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DESALINATION RESEARCH AUTHORIZATION.

    (a) Section 8 of the Water Desalination Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. 
10301 note; Public Law 104-298) is amended in subsection (a)--
            (1) by striking ``$5,000,000 per year for fiscal years 1997 
        through 2021'' and inserting ``$20,000,000 per year for fiscal 
        years 2022 through 2026''; and
            (2) by striking ``$1,000,000'' and inserting 
        ``$15,000,000''.
    (b) Section 3(e) of the Water Desalination Act of 1996 is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (5), by striking ``and'';
            (2) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(7) to minimize the impacts of seawater desalination on 
        aquatic life and coastal ecosystems, including technologies to 
        monitor and reduce those impacts.''.
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