Drought Resiliency and Water Supply Infrastructure Act
This bill establishes and modifies various Department of the Interior water programs that target western states.
Provisions in the bill include those
authorizing Interior to provide grants to support qualifying water-storage projects in western states;
reauthorizing through FY2024 the CALFED Bay-Delta program, which handles water issues in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta;
reauthorizing through FY2024 an Interior grant program to support qualifying water recycling and reuse projects and establishing new priorities for awarding such grants; and
establishing a one-time process for de-authorizing certain Bureau of Reclamation projects.
Actions
Jul 18, 2019
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-330.
Jun 20, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.