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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 1037
110TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 110-476
RURAL ALASKA NATIVE VILLAGE WATER AND SEWER
BILL
SEPTEMBER 22 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 17), 2008.-Ordered to be printed
Mrs. BOXER, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 199]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred a bill (S. 199) to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act
Amendments of 1996 to modify the grant program to improve sani-
tation in rural and Native villages in the State of Alaska, reports
favorably thereon and recommends the bill do pass.
PURPOSES OF THE LEGISLATION
S. 199 modifies, increases, and extends the existing grant pro-
gram under the Safe Drinking Water Amendments Act of 1996 to
help improve sanitation and water quality in rural and Native
American villages in Alaska.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
In rural communities in Alaska, particularly in Native American
villages, as many as one third of homes do not have indoor plumb-
ing. To help address this critical public health and environmental
problem, the Safe Drinking Water Amendments Act of 1996 in-
cluded a grant program to build public water and wastewater sys-
tems to improve public health and sanitation in rural and Native
villages in Alaska. This program has been successful over the years
in helping to provide plumbing, sewers and other infrastructure.
S. 199 increases and extends the authorization of appropriations
for grants to Alaska through FY 2010 to help build this important
infrastructure. It also requires the state of Alaska to report to the
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