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S 2772 115th Congress Senate Water Resources Development Public-private cooperation Rural conditions and development Water resources funding Water use and supply

A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to modify provisions relating to the household water well system grant program.

Introduced: April 26, 2018 Introduced by: Booker, Cory A. Democratic · New Jersey See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to reauthorize and modify the Department of Agriculture (USDA) Household Water Well System Grant Program.

(Under current law, the program awards grants for private nonprofit organizations to provide loans to eligible individuals for the construction, refurbishing, and servicing of individual household water well systems that are or will be owned by the eligible individuals in rural areas.)

The bill modifies the program to:

  • prohibit the household income of an eligible individual from exceeding 60% (currently 100%) of the median nonmetropolitan household income,
  • require grant recipients to provide subgrants to eligible individuals instead of loans,
  • authorize subgrants for household decentralized wastewater systems, and
  • limit the amount of each subgrant provided to an individual to $20,000 for each water well system or decentralized wastewater system.

In the event of well water contamination, USDA must allow a subgrant to be used to install water treatment measures as needed beyond the point of entry, with or without the installation of new well equipment.

What's happening now April 26, 2018

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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Capito, Shelley Moore
West Virginia · Apr 26, 2018
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2772: A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to modify provisions relating to the household water well system grant program.. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2772/
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