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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 453
116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 116-288
AMERICA'S WATER INFRASTRUCTURE ACT OF 2020
NOVEMBER 9, 2020.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BARRASSO, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 3591]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 3591) to provide for improvements to the rivers
and harbors of the United States, to provide for the conservation
and development of water and related resources, to provide for
water pollution control activities, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute and recommends that the bill, as
amended, do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2020 (AWIA 2020) pri-
marily addresses the Civil Works program of the Army Corps of
Engineers (Corps). The bill supports the nation's global economic
competitiveness by authorizing the Corps to undertake projects,
programs and initiatives in their Civil Works program relating to
navigation, environment, flood risk management, hydropower,
recreation, regulatory, emergency management, and water supply.
AWIA 2020 also facilitates our nation's water infrastructure by cre-
ating and reauthorizing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) water and wastewater programs under the Clean Water Act
(CWA).
A Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), in this case AWIA
2020, is the authorizing legislation for the programs and projects
of the Corps' Civil Works program. Ideally enacted every two years,
such an act is the main vehicle for authorizing water projects to be
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