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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2344
To establish a program to increase drinking water and wastewater system
threat preparedness and resilience, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH25, 2025
Ms. S
CHAKOWSKY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the
Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently de-
termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To establish a program to increase drinking water and waste-
water system threat preparedness and resilience, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Water Intelligence, Se-4
curity, and Cyber Threat Protection Act’’ or the ‘‘Water 5
ISAC Threat Protection Act’’. 6
SEC. 2. PROGRAM ESTABLISHMENT. 7
(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 8
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(1) COMMUNITY WATER SYSTEM .—The term 1
‘‘community water system’’ has the meaning given 2
the term in section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water 3
Act (42 U.S.C. 300f). 4
(2) N
ATURAL HAZARD .—The term ‘‘natural 5
hazard’’ has the meaning given the term in section 6
1433(h) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 7
300i–2(h)). 8
(3) T
REATMENT WORKS .—The term ‘‘treatment 9
works’’ has the meaning given the term in section 10
212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 11
U.S.C. 1292). 12
(4) W
ATER INFORMATION SHARING AND ANAL -13
YSIS CENTER.—The term ‘‘Water Information Shar-14
ing and Analysis Center’’ means the Information 15
Sharing and Analysis Center referenced in section 16
1435(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 17
300i–4(d)). 18
(b) E
STABLISHMENT.—Not later than 1 year after 19
the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 20
the Environmental Protection Agency shall develop and 21
carry out a program— 22
(1) to encourage, support, and maintain the 23
participation of community water systems, treatment 24
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works, and other appropriate entities in the Water 1
Information Sharing and Analysis Center; 2
(2) to offset costs incurred by community water 3
systems and treatment works that are necessary to 4
maintain or initiate membership in the Water Infor-5
mation Sharing and Analysis Center; 6
(3) to expand the cooperation and coordination 7
of the Environmental Protection Agency with the 8
Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center 9
with respect to incident data collection and analysis 10
of water sector-related threats; and 11
(4) to enhance the tools, resources, and mate-12
rials of the Water Information Sharing and Analysis 13
Center for— 14
(A) monitoring the status of the water sec-15
tor; and 16
(B) enhancing the preparedness of commu-17
nity water systems and publicly owned treat-18
ment works to identify, protect against, detect, 19
respond to, and recover from malevolent acts 20
(within the meaning of section 1433 of the Safe 21
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300i–2)) or 22
natural hazards. 23
(c) A
UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 24
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 25
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$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, to 1
remain available until expended. 2
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