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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2401 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the |
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| 6 | 6 | | Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Agriculture to maintain |
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| 7 | 7 | | the Urban Waters Federal Partnership Program, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | MARCH27, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. S |
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| 11 | 11 | | TANTON(for himself and Mr. FITZPATRICK) introduced the following |
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| 12 | 12 | | bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infra- |
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| 13 | 13 | | structure, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and |
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| 14 | 14 | | Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak- |
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| 15 | 15 | | er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju- |
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| 16 | 16 | | risdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 17 | 17 | | A BILL |
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| 18 | 18 | | To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protec- |
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| 19 | 19 | | tion Agency, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Sec- |
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| 20 | 20 | | retary of Agriculture to maintain the Urban Waters Fed- |
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| 21 | 21 | | eral Partnership Program, and for other purposes. |
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| 22 | 22 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 23 | 23 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 25 | 25 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Urban Waters Federal 4 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Partnership Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | In this Act: 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) A |
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| 33 | 33 | | DMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | trator’’ means the Administrator of the Environ-4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | mental Protection Agency. 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (2) M |
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| 37 | 37 | | EMBER AGENCIES.—The term ‘‘member 6 |
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| 38 | 38 | | agencies’’ means each of— 7 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (A) the Environmental Protection Agency; 8 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (B) the Department of the Interior; 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (C) the Department of Agriculture; 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (D) the Corps of Engineers; 11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (E) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Administration; 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (F) the Economic Development Adminis-14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | tration; 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (G) the Department of Housing and Urban 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Development; 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (H) the Department of Transportation; 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (I) the Department of Energy; 19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (J) the Department of Education; 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (K) the National Institute for Environ-21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | mental Health Sciences; 22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (L) the Community Development Financial 23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | Institutions Fund; 24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (M) the Federal Emergency Management 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | Agency; 26 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (N) the Corporation for National and 1 |
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| 62 | 62 | | Community Service; and 2 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (O) such other agencies, departments, and 3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | bureaus that elect to participate in the Urban 4 |
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| 65 | 65 | | Waters program as the missions, authorities, 5 |
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| 66 | 66 | | and appropriated funding of those agencies, de-6 |
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| 67 | 67 | | partments, and bureaus allow. 7 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (3) S |
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| 69 | 69 | | ECRETARIES.—The term ‘‘Secretaries’’ 8 |
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| 70 | 70 | | means the Secretary of the Interior and the Sec-9 |
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| 71 | 71 | | retary of Agriculture. 10 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (4) U |
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| 73 | 73 | | RBAN WATERS AMBASSADOR .—The term 11 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘Urban Waters ambassador’’ means a person who— 12 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (A) is locally based near the applicable 13 |
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| 76 | 76 | | Urban Waters partnership location; and 14 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (B) serves in a central coordinating role 15 |
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| 78 | 78 | | for the work carried out in the applicable 16 |
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| 79 | 79 | | Urban Waters partnership location with respect 17 |
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| 80 | 80 | | to the Urban Waters program. 18 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (5) U |
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| 82 | 82 | | RBAN WATERS NONPARTNERSHIP LOCA -19 |
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| 83 | 83 | | TION.—The term ‘‘Urban Waters nonpartnership lo-20 |
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| 84 | 84 | | cation’’ means an urban or municipal site and the 21 |
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| 85 | 85 | | associated watershed or waterbody of the site— 22 |
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| 86 | 86 | | (A) that receives Federal support for ac-23 |
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| 87 | 87 | | tivities that advance the purpose of the Urban 24 |
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| 88 | 88 | | Waters program; but 25 |
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| 92 | 92 | | (B)(i) that is not formally designated as an 1 |
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| 93 | 93 | | Urban Waters partnership location; and 2 |
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| 94 | 94 | | (ii) for which is not maintained— 3 |
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| 95 | 95 | | (I) an active partnership with an 4 |
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| 96 | 96 | | Urban Waters ambassador; or 5 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (II) an Urban Waters partnership lo-6 |
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| 98 | 98 | | cation workplan. 7 |
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| 99 | 99 | | (6) U |
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| 100 | 100 | | RBAN WATERS PARTNERSHIP LOCATION .— 8 |
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| 101 | 101 | | The term ‘‘Urban Waters partnership location’’ 9 |
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| 102 | 102 | | means an urban or municipal site and the associated 10 |
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| 103 | 103 | | watershed or waterbody of the site for which— 11 |
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| 104 | 104 | | (A) the Administrator, in collaboration 12 |
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| 105 | 105 | | with the heads of the other member agencies, 13 |
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| 106 | 106 | | has formally designated as a partnership loca-14 |
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| 107 | 107 | | tion under the Urban Waters program; and 15 |
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| 108 | 108 | | (B) an active partnership with an Urban 16 |
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| 109 | 109 | | Waters ambassador is maintained. 17 |
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| 110 | 110 | | (7) U |
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| 111 | 111 | | RBAN WATERS PARTNERSHIP LOCATION 18 |
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| 112 | 112 | | WORKPLAN.—The term ‘‘Urban Waters partnership 19 |
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| 113 | 113 | | location workplan’’ means the plan for projects and 20 |
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| 114 | 114 | | actions that is coordinated across an Urban Waters 21 |
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| 115 | 115 | | partnership location. 22 |
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| 116 | 116 | | (8) U |
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| 117 | 117 | | RBAN WATERS PROGRAM .—The term 23 |
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| 118 | 118 | | ‘‘Urban Waters program’’ means the program estab-24 |
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| 119 | 119 | | lished under section 3(a). 25 |
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| 123 | 123 | | SEC. 3. URBAN WATERS FEDERAL PARTNERSHIP PRO-1 |
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| 124 | 124 | | GRAM. 2 |
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| 125 | 125 | | (a) A |
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| 126 | 126 | | UTHORIZATION.—There is authorized a pro-3 |
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| 127 | 127 | | gram, to be known as the ‘‘Urban Waters Federal Part-4 |
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| 128 | 128 | | nership Program’’, administered by the partnership of the 5 |
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| 129 | 129 | | member agencies— 6 |
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| 130 | 130 | | (1) to jointly support and execute the goals of 7 |
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| 131 | 131 | | the Urban Waters program through the independent 8 |
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| 132 | 132 | | authorities and appropriated funding of the member 9 |
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| 133 | 133 | | agencies; and 10 |
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| 134 | 134 | | (2) to advance the purpose described in sub-11 |
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| 135 | 135 | | section (b) within designated Urban Waters partner-12 |
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| 136 | 136 | | ship locations and other urban and suburban com-13 |
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| 137 | 137 | | munities in the United States. 14 |
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| 138 | 138 | | (b) P |
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| 139 | 139 | | ROGRAMPURPOSE.—The purpose of the Urban 15 |
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| 140 | 140 | | Waters program is to reconnect urban communities, par-16 |
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| 141 | 141 | | ticularly urban communities that are overburdened or eco-17 |
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| 142 | 142 | | nomically distressed, with associated waterways by im-18 |
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| 143 | 143 | | proving coordination among Federal agencies. 19 |
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| 144 | 144 | | (c) P |
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| 145 | 145 | | ROGRAMREQUIREMENTS.— 20 |
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| 146 | 146 | | (1) I |
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| 147 | 147 | | N GENERAL.—Subject to the availability of 21 |
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| 148 | 148 | | appropriations, the Administrator, in coordination 22 |
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| 149 | 149 | | with the Secretaries and, as appropriate, the heads 23 |
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| 150 | 150 | | of the other member agencies, shall maintain the 24 |
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| 151 | 151 | | Urban Waters program in accordance with this sub-25 |
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| 152 | 152 | | section. 26 |
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| 156 | 156 | | (2) URBAN WATERS FEDERAL PARTNERSHIP 1 |
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| 157 | 157 | | STEERING COMMITTEE .— 2 |
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| 158 | 158 | | (A) E |
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| 159 | 159 | | STABLISHMENT.— 3 |
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| 160 | 160 | | (i) I |
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| 161 | 161 | | N GENERAL.—The Administrator 4 |
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| 162 | 162 | | shall establish a steering committee for the 5 |
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| 163 | 163 | | Urban Waters program (referred to in this 6 |
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| 164 | 164 | | paragraph as the ‘‘steering committee’’). 7 |
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| 165 | 165 | | (ii) C |
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| 166 | 166 | | HAIR.—The Administrator shall 8 |
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| 167 | 167 | | serve as chairperson of the steering com-9 |
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| 168 | 168 | | mittee. 10 |
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| 169 | 169 | | (iii) V |
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| 170 | 170 | | ICE-CHAIRS.—The Secretaries 11 |
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| 171 | 171 | | shall serve as vice-chairpersons of the 12 |
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| 172 | 172 | | steering committee. 13 |
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| 173 | 173 | | (iv) M |
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| 174 | 174 | | EMBERSHIP.—In addition to the 14 |
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| 175 | 175 | | Administrator and the Secretaries, the 15 |
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| 176 | 176 | | members of the steering committee shall be 16 |
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| 177 | 177 | | the senior officials (or their designees) 17 |
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| 178 | 178 | | from such member agencies as the Admin-18 |
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| 179 | 179 | | istrator shall designate. 19 |
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| 180 | 180 | | (B) D |
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| 181 | 181 | | UTIES.—The steering committee 20 |
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| 182 | 182 | | shall provide general guidance to the member 21 |
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| 183 | 183 | | agencies with respect to the Urban Waters pro-22 |
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| 184 | 184 | | gram, including guidance with respect to— 23 |
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| 189 | 189 | | issues for special emphasis within Urban 2 |
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| 190 | 190 | | Waters partnership locations; and 3 |
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| 191 | 191 | | (ii) the identification of funding op-4 |
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| 192 | 192 | | portunities, which shall be communicated 5 |
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| 193 | 193 | | to all Urban Waters partnership locations. 6 |
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| 194 | 194 | | (C) I |
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| 195 | 195 | | NTERAGENCY FINANCING .—Notwith-7 |
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| 196 | 196 | | standing section 1346 of title 31, United States 8 |
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| 197 | 197 | | Code, section 708 of division E of the Consoli-9 |
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| 198 | 198 | | dated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 10 |
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| 199 | 199 | | 116–260), or any other similar provision of law, 11 |
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| 200 | 200 | | member agencies may— 12 |
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| 201 | 201 | | (i) provide interagency financing to 13 |
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| 202 | 202 | | the steering committee; and 14 |
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| 203 | 203 | | (ii) directly transfer such amounts as 15 |
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| 204 | 204 | | are necessary to support the activities of 16 |
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| 205 | 205 | | the steering committee. 17 |
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| 206 | 206 | | (3) A |
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| 207 | 207 | | UTHORITY.— 18 |
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| 208 | 208 | | (A) P |
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| 209 | 209 | | ARTNERSHIP LOCATIONS .— 19 |
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| 210 | 210 | | (i) P |
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| 211 | 211 | | ARTNERSHIP LOCATIONS .—The 20 |
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| 212 | 212 | | Administrator and the Secretaries shall 21 |
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| 213 | 213 | | maintain an active partnership program 22 |
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| 214 | 214 | | under the Urban Waters program at each 23 |
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| 215 | 215 | | Urban Waters partnership location, includ-24 |
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| 216 | 216 | | ing each Urban Waters partnership loca-25 |
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| 220 | 220 | | tion in existence on the date of enactment 1 |
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| 221 | 221 | | of this Act, by providing— 2 |
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| 222 | 222 | | (I) technical assistance for 3 |
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| 223 | 223 | | projects to be carried out within the 4 |
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| 224 | 224 | | Urban Waters partnership location; 5 |
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| 225 | 225 | | (II) funding for projects to be 6 |
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| 226 | 226 | | carried out within the Urban Waters 7 |
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| 227 | 227 | | partnership location; 8 |
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| 228 | 228 | | (III) funding for an Urban 9 |
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| 229 | 229 | | Waters ambassador for the Urban 10 |
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| 230 | 230 | | Waters partnership location; and 11 |
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| 231 | 231 | | (IV) coordination support with 12 |
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| 232 | 232 | | other member agencies with respect to 13 |
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| 233 | 233 | | activities carried out at the Urban 14 |
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| 234 | 234 | | Waters partnership location. 15 |
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| 235 | 235 | | (ii) N |
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| 236 | 236 | | EW PARTNERSHIP LOCATIONS .— 16 |
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| 237 | 237 | | (I) I |
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| 238 | 238 | | N GENERAL.—The Adminis-17 |
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| 239 | 239 | | trator and the Secretaries may, in 18 |
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| 240 | 240 | | consultation with the heads of other 19 |
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| 241 | 241 | | member agencies, establish new 20 |
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| 242 | 242 | | Urban Waters partnership locations. 21 |
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| 243 | 243 | | (II) N |
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| 244 | 244 | | ONPARTNERSHIP LOCA -22 |
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| 245 | 245 | | TIONS.—A community with an Urban 23 |
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| 246 | 246 | | Waters nonpartnership location may, 24 |
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| 247 | 247 | | at the discretion of the community, 25 |
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| 252 | 252 | | partnership location designated as an 2 |
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| 253 | 253 | | Urban Waters partnership location. 3 |
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| 254 | 254 | | (B) A |
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| 255 | 255 | | UTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.— 4 |
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| 256 | 256 | | (i) D |
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| 257 | 257 | | EFINITION OF ELIGIBLE ENTI -5 |
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| 258 | 258 | | TY.—In this subparagraph, the term ‘‘eli-6 |
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| 259 | 259 | | gible entity’’ means— 7 |
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| 260 | 260 | | (I) a State; 8 |
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| 261 | 261 | | (II) a territory or possession of 9 |
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| 262 | 262 | | the United States; 10 |
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| 263 | 263 | | (III) the District of Columbia; 11 |
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| 264 | 264 | | (IV) an Indian Tribe; 12 |
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| 265 | 265 | | (V) a unit of local government; 13 |
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| 266 | 266 | | (VI) a public or private institu-14 |
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| 267 | 267 | | tion of higher education; 15 |
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| 268 | 268 | | (VII) a public or private non-16 |
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| 269 | 269 | | profit institution; 17 |
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| 270 | 270 | | (VIII) an intertribal consortium; 18 |
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| 271 | 271 | | (IX) an interstate agency; and 19 |
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| 272 | 272 | | (X) any other entity determined 20 |
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| 273 | 273 | | to be appropriate by the Adminis-21 |
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| 274 | 274 | | trator. 22 |
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| 275 | 275 | | (ii) A |
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| 276 | 276 | | CTIVITIES.—In carrying out the 23 |
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| 277 | 277 | | Urban Waters program, a member agency 24 |
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| 278 | 278 | | may— 25 |
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| 283 | 283 | | and render technical services to and 2 |
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| 284 | 284 | | provide financial assistance to sup-3 |
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| 285 | 285 | | port— 4 |
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| 286 | 286 | | (aa) Urban Water ambas-5 |
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| 287 | 287 | | sadors to conduct activities with 6 |
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| 288 | 288 | | respect to the applicable Urban 7 |
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| 289 | 289 | | Waters partnership location, in-8 |
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| 290 | 290 | | cluding— 9 |
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| 291 | 291 | | (AA) convening the ap-10 |
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| 292 | 292 | | propriate Federal and non- 11 |
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| 293 | 293 | | Federal partners for the 12 |
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| 294 | 294 | | Urban Waters partnership 13 |
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| 295 | 295 | | location; 14 |
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| 296 | 296 | | (BB) developing and 15 |
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| 297 | 297 | | carrying out an Urban 16 |
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| 298 | 298 | | Waters partnership location 17 |
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| 299 | 299 | | workplan; 18 |
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| 300 | 300 | | (CC) leveraging avail-19 |
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| 301 | 301 | | able Federal and non-Fed-20 |
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| 302 | 302 | | eral resources for projects 21 |
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| 303 | 303 | | within the Urban Waters 22 |
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| 304 | 304 | | partnership location; and 23 |
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| 305 | 305 | | (DD) sharing informa-24 |
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| 306 | 306 | | tion and best practices with 25 |
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| 311 | 311 | | Network established under 2 |
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| 312 | 312 | | subparagraph (C); and 3 |
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| 313 | 313 | | (bb) an eligible entity in car-4 |
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| 314 | 314 | | rying out— 5 |
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| 315 | 315 | | (AA) projects at Urban 6 |
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| 316 | 316 | | Water partnership locations 7 |
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| 317 | 317 | | that provide habitat or 8 |
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| 318 | 318 | | water quality improvements, 9 |
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| 319 | 319 | | increase river recreation, en-10 |
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| 320 | 320 | | hance community resiliency, 11 |
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| 321 | 321 | | install infrastructure, 12 |
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| 322 | 322 | | strengthen community en-13 |
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| 323 | 323 | | gagement with and edu-14 |
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| 324 | 324 | | cation with respect to water 15 |
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| 325 | 325 | | resources, or support plan-16 |
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| 326 | 326 | | ning, coordination, and exe-17 |
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| 327 | 327 | | cution of projects identified 18 |
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| 328 | 328 | | in the applicable Urban 19 |
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| 329 | 329 | | Waters partnership location 20 |
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| 330 | 330 | | workplan; and 21 |
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| 331 | 331 | | (BB) planning, re-22 |
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| 332 | 332 | | search, experiments, dem-23 |
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| 333 | 333 | | onstrations, surveys, studies, 24 |
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| 334 | 334 | | monitoring, training, and 25 |
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| 339 | 339 | | pose described in subsection 2 |
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| 340 | 340 | | (b) within Urban Waters 3 |
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| 341 | 341 | | partnership locations and in 4 |
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| 342 | 342 | | Urban Waters nonpartner-5 |
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| 343 | 343 | | ship locations; and 6 |
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| 344 | 344 | | (II) transfer funds to or enter 7 |
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| 345 | 345 | | into interagency agreements with 8 |
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| 346 | 346 | | other member agencies as necessary 9 |
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| 347 | 347 | | to carry out the Urban Waters pro-10 |
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| 348 | 348 | | gram. 11 |
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| 349 | 349 | | (C) U |
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| 350 | 350 | | RBAN WATERS LEARNING NET -12 |
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| 351 | 351 | | WORK.—The Administrator and the Secretaries 13 |
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| 352 | 352 | | shall maintain an Urban Waters Learning Net-14 |
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| 353 | 353 | | work— 15 |
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| 354 | 354 | | (i) to share information, resources, 16 |
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| 355 | 355 | | and tools between Urban Waters partner-17 |
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| 356 | 356 | | ship locations and with other interested 18 |
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| 357 | 357 | | communities; and 19 |
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| 358 | 358 | | (ii) to carry out community-based ca-20 |
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| 359 | 359 | | pacity building that advances the goals of 21 |
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| 360 | 360 | | the Urban Waters program. 22 |
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| 361 | 361 | | (D) W |
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| 362 | 362 | | ORKPLAN PROGRESS .—Progress in 23 |
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| 363 | 363 | | addressing the goals of the Urban Waters part-24 |
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| 364 | 364 | | nership location workplan of an Urban Waters 25 |
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| 368 | 368 | | partnership location shall be shared with the 1 |
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| 369 | 369 | | Urban Waters program at regular intervals, as 2 |
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| 370 | 370 | | determined by the Administrator and the Secre-3 |
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| 371 | 371 | | taries. 4 |
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| 372 | 372 | | (d) R |
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| 373 | 373 | | EPORTS TO CONGRESS.—The Administrator 5 |
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| 374 | 374 | | and the Secretaries shall annually submit to the appro-6 |
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| 375 | 375 | | priate committees of Congress a report describing the 7 |
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| 376 | 376 | | progress in carrying out the Urban Waters program, 8 |
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| 377 | 377 | | which shall include— 9 |
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| 378 | 378 | | (1) a description of the use of funds under the 10 |
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| 379 | 379 | | Urban Waters program; 11 |
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| 380 | 380 | | (2) a description of the progress made in car-12 |
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| 381 | 381 | | rying out Urban Waters partnership location 13 |
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| 382 | 382 | | workplans; and 14 |
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| 383 | 383 | | (3) any additional information that the Admin-15 |
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| 384 | 384 | | istrator and the Secretaries determine to be appro-16 |
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| 385 | 385 | | priate. 17 |
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| 386 | 386 | | (e) A |
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| 387 | 387 | | UTHORIZATION OFAPPROPRIATIONS.— 18 |
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| 388 | 388 | | (1) I |
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| 389 | 389 | | N GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 19 |
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| 390 | 390 | | appropriated to the Administrator to carry out the 20 |
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| 391 | 391 | | Urban Waters program $10,000,000 for each of fis-21 |
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| 392 | 392 | | cal years 2026 through 2030. 22 |
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| 393 | 393 | | (2) U |
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| 394 | 394 | | SE OF FUNDS .—Notwithstanding any 23 |
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| 395 | 395 | | other provision of law, activities carried out using 24 |
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| 396 | 396 | | amounts made available to the Administrator under 25 |
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| 400 | 400 | | paragraph (1) may be used in conjunction with 1 |
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| 401 | 401 | | amounts made available from— 2 |
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| 402 | 402 | | (A) other member agencies; and 3 |
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| 403 | 403 | | (B) non-Federal entities that participate in 4 |
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| 404 | 404 | | the Urban Waters program. 5 |
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