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Union Calendar No. 324
106th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 2957
[Report No. 106-594]
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize funding
to carry out certain water quality restoration projects for Lake
Pontchartrain Basin, Louisiana, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 27, 1999
Mr. Vitter (for himself and Mr. Jefferson) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure
May 2, 2000
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed
in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on
September 27, 1999]
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A BILL
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize funding
to carry out certain water quality restoration projects for Lake
Pontchartrain Basin, Louisiana, 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 ``Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration
Act of 2000''.
SEC. 2. NATIONAL ESTUARY PROGRAM.
(a) Finding.--Congress finds that the Lake Ponchartrain Basin is an
estuary of national significance.
(b) Addition to National Estuary Program.--Section 320(a)(2)(B) of
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(a)(2)(B)) is
amended by inserting ``Lake Ponchartrain Basin, Louisiana and
Mississippi;'' before ``and Peconic Bay, New York.''.
SEC. 3. LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN BASIN.
(a) In General.--Title I of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act
(33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``SEC. 121. LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN BASIN.
``(a) Establishment of Restoration Program.--The Administrator
shall establish within the Environmental Protection Agency the Lake
Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program.
``(b) Purpose.--The purpose of the program shall be to restore the
ecological health of the Basin by developing and funding restoration
projects and related scientific and public education projects.
``(c) Duties.--In carrying out the program, the Administrator
shall--
``(1) provide administrative and technical assistance to a
management conference convened for the Basin under section 320;
``(2) assist and support the activities of the management
conference, including the implementation of recommendations of
the management conference;
``(3) support environmental monitoring of the Basin and
research to provide necessary technical and scientific
information;
``(4) develop a comprehensive research plan to address the
technical needs of the program;
``(5) coordinate the grant, research, and planning programs
authorized under this section; and
``(6) collect and make available to the public
publications, and other forms of information the management
conference determines to be appropriate, relating to the
environmental quality of the Basin.
``(d) Grants.--The Administrator may make grants--
``(1) for restoration projects and studies recommended by a
management conference convened for the Basin under section 320;
``(2) for public education projects recommended by the
management conference; and
``(3) for the inflow and infiltration project sponsored by
the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board and Jefferson Parish,
Louisiana.
``(e) Definitions.--In this section, the following definitions
apply:
``(1) Basin.--The term `Basin' means the Lake Pontchartrain
Basin, a 5,000 square mile watershed encompassing 16 parishes
in the State of Louisiana and 4 counties in the State of
Mississippi.
``(2) Program.--The term `program' means the Lake
Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program established under
subsection (a).
``(f) Authorization of Appropriations.--
``(1) In general.--There is authorized to be appropriated--
``(A) $100,000,000 for the inflow and infiltration
project sponsored by the New Orleans Sewerage and Water
Board and Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; and
``(B) $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001
through 2005 to carry out this section.
Such sums shall remain available until expended.
``(2) Public education projects.--Not more that 15 percent
of the amount appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1)(B) in a
fiscal year may be expended on grants for public education
projects under subsection (d)(2).''.
Union Calendar No. 324
106th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 2957
[Report No. 106-594]
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize funding
to carry out certain water quality restoration projects for Lake
Pontchartrain Basin, Louisiana, and for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
May 2, 2000
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
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