Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Western Tribal Water Infrastructure Act of 2019”.
Western Tribal Water Infrastructure Act of 2019
A BILL
To amend the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 to expand the Indian reservation drinking water program, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Indian Reservation Drinking Water Program
Section 2001 of the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (42 U.S.C. 300j–3c note; Public Law 115–270) is amended—
in subsection (a)—
in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator” and inserting “The Administrator”;
in paragraph (1), by striking “and” at the end;
in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(3) 10 eligible projects described in subsection (b) that are within—
“(A) the portion of the Columbia River Basin that is—
“(i) south of the Columbia River; and
“(ii) below the Grand Coulee Dam; or
“(B) coastal basins adjacent to the portion of the Columbia River Basin described in subparagraph (A).”
in subsection (b)(1)—
by striking “is on a reservation” and inserting the following:
“(A) a reservation”
in subparagraph (A) (as so designated), by striking “and” at the end and inserting “or”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(B) an off-reservation site that serves an Indian Tribe described in subsection (c)(2); and”
in subsection (c)—
by striking the subsection designation and heading and all that follows through “In carrying out” and inserting the following:
“(c) Requirements
“(1) Upper Missouri River Basin—In carrying out”
by adding at the end the following:
“(2) Columbia River Basin—In carrying out the program under subsection (a)(3), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall select not less than 1 eligible project that serves one or more Tribal communities of federally recognized Indian Tribes the Federal recognition of which has been terminated and subsequently restored.”
in subsection (d), by striking “$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2022” and inserting “$30,000,000 for fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter”.