LEG00140

• Bill Number: PUB104-182
• Year: 1996
• Title: To reauthorize and amend title XIV of the Public Health Service Act ‎(Commonly Known as the "Safe Drinking Water Act")‎ and for Other Purposes
• Legislation - Doc Type: Congressional Legislative Information

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"(3) Capacity development techniques.--The Administrator
may request an environmental finance center funded under
paragraph (1) to develop and test managerial, financial, and
institutional techniques for capacity development. The
techniques may include capacity a@sessment methodologies, manual
and computer based public water system rate models and capital
planning models, public water system consolidation procedures,
and regionalization models.
"(4) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized
to be appropriated to carry out this subsection $1,500,000 for
each of the fiscal years 1997 through 2003.
"(5) Limitation.--No portion of any funds made available
under this subsection may be used for lobbying expenses.".

SEC. 120. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR CERTAIN GROUND WATER
PROGRAMS.

(a) Critical Aquifer Protection.--Section 1427 (42 U.S.C. 300h-6) is
amended as follows:
(1) Subsection (b) (1) is amended by striking "not later
than 24 months after the enactment of the Safe Drinking Water
Act Amendments of 1986' I.
(2) The table in subsection (m) is amended by adding at the
end the following:

"1992-2003...................................... .15,000,000.".

(b) Wellhead Protection Areas.--The table in section 142B(k) (42
U.S.C. 300h-7(k)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

"1992-2003...................................... .30,000,000.".

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(c) Underground Injection Control Grant.--The table in section
1443(b) (5) (42 U.S.C. 300j-2(b) (5)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:

"1992-2003...................................... .15,000,000.".

SEC. 121. AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 1442.

Section 1442 (42 U.S.C. 300j-1) is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraph (3) of subsection (b) as
paragraph (3) of subsection (d) and moving such paragraph to
appear after paragraph (2) of subsection (d);
(2) by striking subsection (b) (as so amended);
(3) by redesignating subparagraph (B) of subsection (a) (2)
as subsection (b) and moving such subsection to appear after
subsection (a);
(4) in subsection (a)--
(A) by striking paragraph (2) (as so amended) and
inserting the following:
"(2) Information and research facilities.--In carrying out
this title, the Administrator is authorized to--
"(A) collect and make available information

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