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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 51
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 117-17
TO AMEND THE AMERICA'S WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
ACT OF 2018 TO EXPAND THE INDIAN RESERVATION
DRINKING WATER PROGRAM, AND FOR OTHER PUR-
POSES
APRIL 28, 2021.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 421]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 421) to amend the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018
to expand the Indian reservation drinking water program, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 421 is to expand a program to carry out
projects that connect, expand, or repair existing public water sys-
tems or improve water quality, water pressure, or water services
on reservations in the Upper Missouri River Basin and Upper Rio
Grande River Basin.
BACKGROUND
Under Section 2001 of the America's Water Infrastructure Act of
2018 (P.L. 115-270), the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) was
directed, subject to the availability of appropriations, to carry out
a program to connect, expand, or repair an existing public water
system or improve water quality, water pressure, or water services,
split between projects that serve reservations in the Upper Mis-
souri River Basin and the Upper Rio Grande River Basin. Section
2001 provides that at least one qualifying pilot project for a res-
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