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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1118 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To establish a program to increase drinking water and wastewater system |
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| 6 | 6 | | threat preparedness and resilience, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH25, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. M |
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| 10 | 10 | | ARKEYintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 11 | 11 | | to the Committee on Environment and Public Works |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To establish a program to increase drinking water and waste- |
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| 14 | 14 | | water system threat preparedness and resilience, and for |
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| 15 | 15 | | other purposes. |
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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 ‘‘Water Intelligence, Se-4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | curity, and Cyber Threat Protection Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. PROGRAM ESTABLISHMENT. 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (a) D |
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| 23 | 23 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (1) C |
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| 25 | 25 | | OMMUNITY WATER SYSTEM .—The term 8 |
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| 26 | 26 | | ‘‘community water system’’ has the meaning given 9 |
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| 29 | 29 | | •S 1118 IS |
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| 30 | 30 | | the term in section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Act (42 U.S.C. 300f). 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (2) N |
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| 33 | 33 | | ATURAL HAZARD .—The term ‘‘natural 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | hazard’’ has the meaning given the term in section 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | 1433(h) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | 300i–2(h)). 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (3) T |
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| 38 | 38 | | REATMENT WORKS .—The term ‘‘treatment 7 |
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| 39 | 39 | | works’’ has the meaning given the term in section 8 |
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| 40 | 40 | | 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | U.S.C. 1292). 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (4) W |
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| 43 | 43 | | ATER INFORMATION SHARING AND ANAL -11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | YSIS CENTER.—The term ‘‘Water Information Shar-12 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ing and Analysis Center’’ means the Information 13 |
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| 46 | 46 | | Sharing and Analysis Center referenced in section 14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | 1435(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | 300i–4(d)). 16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (b) E |
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| 50 | 50 | | STABLISHMENT.—Not later than 1 year after 17 |
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| 51 | 51 | | the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 18 |
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| 52 | 52 | | the Environmental Protection Agency shall develop and 19 |
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| 53 | 53 | | carry out a program— 20 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (1) to encourage, support, and maintain the 21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | participation of community water systems, treatment 22 |
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| 56 | 56 | | works, and other appropriate entities in the Water 23 |
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| 57 | 57 | | Information Sharing and Analysis Center; 24 |
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| 60 | 60 | | •S 1118 IS |
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| 61 | 61 | | (2) to offset costs incurred by community water 1 |
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| 62 | 62 | | systems and treatment works that are necessary to 2 |
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| 63 | 63 | | maintain or initiate membership in the Water Infor-3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | mation Sharing and Analysis Center; 4 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (3) to expand the cooperation and coordination 5 |
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| 66 | 66 | | of the Environmental Protection Agency with the 6 |
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| 67 | 67 | | Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center 7 |
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| 68 | 68 | | with respect to incident data collection and analysis 8 |
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| 69 | 69 | | of water sector-related threats; and 9 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (4) to enhance the tools, resources, and mate-10 |
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| 71 | 71 | | rials of the Water Information Sharing and Analysis 11 |
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| 72 | 72 | | Center for— 12 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (A) monitoring the status of the water sec-13 |
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| 74 | 74 | | tor; and 14 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (B) enhancing the preparedness of commu-15 |
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| 76 | 76 | | nity water systems and publicly owned treat-16 |
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| 77 | 77 | | ment works to identify, protect against, detect, 17 |
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| 78 | 78 | | respond to, and recover from malevolent acts 18 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (within the meaning of section 1433 of the Safe 19 |
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| 80 | 80 | | Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300i–2)) or 20 |
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| 81 | 81 | | natural hazards. 21 |
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| 82 | 82 | | (c) A |
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| 83 | 83 | | UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 22 |
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| 84 | 84 | | authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 23 |
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| 87 | 87 | | •S 1118 IS |
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| 88 | 88 | | $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, to 1 |
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| 89 | 89 | | remain available until expended. 2 |
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