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116TH CONGRESS [REPT. 116-671
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY DRINKING WATER
ASSISTANCE ACT
DECEMBER 18, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 5347]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5347) to require the Secretary of the Interior to establish
a grant program to close gaps in access to safe drinking water in
disadvantaged communities, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and
recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assist-
ance Act.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that-
(1) many areas in the State of California, particularly in the San Joaquin Val-
ley region, are disproportionately impacted by drought because the areas are
heavily dependent or completely reliant on groundwater supplies to meet do-
mestic drinking water needs; and
(2) those communities throughout the State of California have been impacted
by the presence of naturally occurring and human-caused constituents including
arsenic, 1,2,3-Trichloropropane (1,2,3-TCP), hexavalent chromium, Dibromo-
chloropropane (DBCP), uranium, and nitrates in local groundwater supplies.
SEC. 3. GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.-The Secretary of the Interior shall establish and carry out
a grant program to be known as the Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water
Assistance Program to provide financial assistance to disadvantaged communities
that have experienced a significant decline in quantity or quality of drinking water,
and to obtain or maintain adequate quantities of water that meet the standards set
by the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.). Grants under this
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