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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2109 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To include cybersecurity technical assistance in the national rural water |
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| 6 | 6 | | and wastewater circuit rider program of Department of Agriculture. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH14, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. D |
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| 10 | 10 | | AVISof North Carolina (for himself and Mr. NUNNof Iowa) introduced |
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| 11 | 11 | | the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To include cybersecurity technical assistance in the national |
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| 14 | 14 | | rural water and wastewater circuit rider program of De- |
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| 15 | 15 | | partment of Agriculture. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Cybersecurity for 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Rural Water Systems Act’’. 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF CYBERSECURITY TECHNICAL AS-1 |
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| 25 | 25 | | SISTANCE IN THE NATIONAL RURAL WATER 2 |
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| 26 | 26 | | AND WASTEWATER CIRCUIT RIDER PRO-3 |
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| 27 | 27 | | GRAM. 4 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (a) I |
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| 29 | 29 | | NGENERAL.—Section 306(a)(22)(A) of the Con-5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | solidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 6 |
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| 31 | 31 | | 1926(a)(22)(A)) is amended— 7 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of clause (i); 8 |
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| 33 | 33 | | and 9 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (2) by redesignating clause (ii) as clause (iii) 10 |
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| 35 | 35 | | and inserting after clause (i) the following: 11 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘(ii) shall include cybersecurity tech-12 |
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| 37 | 37 | | nical assistance for rural water systems 13 |
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| 38 | 38 | | serving fewer than 10,000 persons, to— 14 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(I) assess system efficacy in 15 |
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| 40 | 40 | | protecting against cyber threats; and 16 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ‘‘(II) implement cybersecurity 17 |
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| 42 | 42 | | plans, procedures, and technologies to 18 |
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| 43 | 43 | | protect against cyber threats; and’’. 19 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (b) E |
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| 45 | 45 | | XTENSION OF PROGRAM.—Section 20 |
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| 46 | 46 | | 306(a)(22)(B) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(22)(B)) is 21 |
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| 47 | 47 | | amended by striking ‘‘$25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 22 |
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| 48 | 48 | | 2019 through 2023’’ and inserting ‘‘$32,500,000 for each 23 |
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| 49 | 49 | | of fiscal years 2026 through 2030, of which $7,500,000 24 |
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| 50 | 50 | | for each of the fiscal years shall be used to provide cyber-25 |
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| 54 | 54 | | security technical assistance in accordance with subpara-1 |
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| 55 | 55 | | graph (A)(ii)’’. 2 |
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