Official Summaries

This bill modifies the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to allow unobligated balances of amounts made available to the Bureau of Reclamation for western water infrastructure to be made available to Reclamation for FY2026-2031 to provide financial or technical assistance for (1) groundwater recharge projects, (2) aquifer storage and recovery projects, or (3) water source substitution for aquifer protection projects.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 337 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 337

To provide technical and financial assistance for groundwater recharge, 
        aquifer storage, and water source substitution projects.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 2025

 Mr. Costa (for himself, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Thompson of California, and 
 Ms. Lofgren) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide technical and financial assistance for groundwater recharge, 
        aquifer storage, and water source substitution projects.

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

SECTION 1. ASSISTANCE FOR GROUNDWATER RECHARGE, AQUIFER STORAGE, AND 
              WATER SOURCE SUBSTITUTION PROJECTS.

    Section 40910 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public 
Law 117-58) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Transfer Authority.--Of the unobligated balances of amounts 
made available under section 40901, there may be made available to the 
Secretary $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2031 to 
carry out subsection (a).''.
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