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Version 80 · Reported to Senate without amendment · Sep 22, 2008
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Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 to: (1) increase and extend through FY2010 the authorization of appropriations for grants to Alaska to build public water and wastewater systems to improve health and sanitation in rural and Native villages; (2) condition grants on Alaska requiring applicants to identify a project's scope and goals, establishing long-term goals for the grant program, and carrying out regular reviews of grantees to determine if the stated scope and goals of each grant are being met; (3) require Alaska to report to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) annually on project goals and expenditures for the grant program; (4) direct the Administrator to require Alaska to correct any deficiencies identified in the report; (5) require the Administrator and Alaska to reach an agreement on a deadline for making such corrections; and (6) prohibit expenditures for projects for which any such deficiencies are not corrected by the deadline or for which a deadline agreement has not been reached.
People & committees
Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] · R–AK
Legislative record
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1037.
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 110-476.
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 110-476.
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S238-239)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S239)
Introduced in Senate
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