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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 4356 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to increase |
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| 6 | 6 | | Tribal access to water conservation and efficiency grants, and for other |
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| 7 | 7 | | purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JUNE23, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. S |
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| 11 | 11 | | TANSBURY(for herself, Ms. NORTON, Mr. COHEN, Ms. LEGER |
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| 12 | 12 | | F |
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| 13 | 13 | | ERNANDEZ, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. DAVIDSof Kansas, and Mr. COSTA) |
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| 14 | 14 | | introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on |
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| 15 | 15 | | Natural Resources |
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| 16 | 16 | | A BILL |
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| 17 | 17 | | To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of |
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| 18 | 18 | | 2009 to increase Tribal access to water conservation |
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| 19 | 19 | | and efficiency grants, and for other purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘WaterSMART Access 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | for Tribes Act’’. 5 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •HR 4356 IH |
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| 28 | 28 | | SEC. 2. WATER MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT. 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Section 9504(a)(3)(E)(i) of the Omnibus Public 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Land Management Act of 2009 (42 U.S.C. 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | 10364(a)(3)(E)(i)) is amended— 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) in subclause (I), by striking ‘‘subclause 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (II)’’ and inserting ‘‘subclauses (II) and (III)’’; and 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (2) after subclause (II), by inserting the fol-7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | lowing: 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘(III) W |
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| 37 | 37 | | AIVER; REDUCTION.— 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | With respect to a grant or other 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | agreement entered into under para-11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | graph (1) between the Secretary and 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | an Indian tribe, the Secretary may re-13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | duce or waive the non-Federal share 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (and increase the Federal share ac-15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | cordingly) of the cost of any infra-16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | structure improvement or activity that 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | is the subject of that grant or other 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | agreement if the Secretary determines 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | that contribution of the non-Federal 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | share would result in a financial hard-21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ship for the Indian tribe.’’. 22 |
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