Sec. 4. Emergency appropriations
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There is hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2014, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a total amount of $255,000,000, to remain available until the end of the period during which the State's emergency drought designation is in effect, to be allocated among the following purposes: For Department of the Interior—Bureau of Reclamation—Water and Related Resources for eligible projects within the State, on a priority and expedited basis, that— create drought-tolerant water supplies by implementing water reclamation and reuse projects authorized under title XVI of Public Law 102–575 ; and optimize and conserve water supplies through the WaterSMART program, including— by replacing water consuming products or functions with waterless devices or technologies that perform the same function; and by installing districtwide or on-farm water efficiency and conservation technologies, including behavioral water efficiency, system modernizations including leak repair and SCADA systems, and other technologies that have been proven to provide improvements in water use efficiency through the verification of a third party; and water efficiency projects for managed wetlands to improve water conveyance infrastructure, level ponds to reduce the amount of water required to flood them, or install water recirculation systems.
For assistance under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 (43 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.) and any other applicable Federal law (including regulations) for the optimization and conservation of water supplies to assist drought-plagued areas of the West. Such assistance may include— the installation of ground water wells as requested by the managers of wildlife refuges; the purchase or assistance in the purchase of water from willing sellers; conservation projects providing water supply benefits in the short term and reducing demand in the long term; exchanges with any water districts willing to provide water to meet other districts’ emergency water needs in return for the future delivery of equivalent amounts of water in the same year or in future years; maintenance of cover crops to prevent public health impacts from severe dust storms; emergency pumping projects for critical health and safety purposes; the use of new or innovative water on-farm conservation technologies or methods that may assist in sustaining permanent crops in areas with severe water shortages; technical assistance to improve existing irrigation practices to provide water supply benefits; and activities to mitigate the impacts of the drought and this Act on threatened and endangered fish and wildlife.
For Department of Agriculture—Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Account , not less than $5,000,000 for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans and grants for the rural water, wastewater, and waste disposal programs authorized by sections 306 and 310B or described in section 381E(d)(2) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act within the State. For Environmental Protection Agency—State and Tribal Assistance Grants — not less than $30,000,000 for capitalization grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.) within the State; and not less than $15,000,000 for capitalization grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300j–12 ) within the State.
For Department of Justice—Drug Enforcement Administration , not less than $3,000,000 for the Domestic Cannabis Eradication and Suppression Program to assist State or local law enforcement agencies in the suppression of cannabis operations that are conducted on public lands or that intentionally trespass on the property of another that also divert, redirect, obstruct, drain, or impound water supply. For Land and Water Conservation Fund , not less than $50,000,000 shall be provided to the Department of the Interior and U.S.
Forest Service for the implementation of projects under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 in drought-affected States that reduce fire risk, improve water quality or downstream water quantity, or expand ground water recharge capacity. The amount under this section is designated by Congress as being for emergency requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A)(i) ).
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- Pub. L. 102-575
- 42 USC 300j–12
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Emergency appropriations
Pub. L.Pub. L. 102-575
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