To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to authorize the use of funds for certain additional Carey Act projects, and for other purposes.

This bill expands eligibility for grants for rehabilitation and reconstruction projects for certain dams developed pursuant to the Carey Act provided that projects previously eligible for grants have received the necessary funding.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2694 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2694

 To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to authorize the 
 use of funds for certain additional Carey Act projects, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 18, 2023

 Mr. Simpson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to authorize the 
 use of funds for certain additional Carey Act projects, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ELIGIBILITY UNDER THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT 
              OF ADDITIONAL CAREY ACT PROJECTS FOR CERTAIN FUNDS.

    Section 40904(b) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (43 
U.S.C. 3204(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by redesignating subparagraphs (A) 
        through (C) as clauses (i) through (iii), respectively, and 
        indenting appropriately;
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (4) as 
        subparagraphs (A) through (D), respectively, and indenting 
        appropriately;
            (3) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) (as so 
        redesignated), by striking ``The Secretary'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Additional projects.--
                    ``(A) In general.--On making the affirmative 
                determinations described in subparagraph (B), the 
                Secretary shall use amounts made available under 
                section 40901(2)(B) to fund the rehabilitation, 
                reconstruction, or replacement of any dams that were 
                developed pursuant to, and continue to operate as dams 
                under, section 4 of the Act of August 18, 1894 
                (commonly known as the `Carey Act') (43 U.S.C. 641; 28 
                Stat. 422, chapter 301).
                    ``(B) Determinations described.--The determinations 
                referred to in subparagraph (A) are--
                            ``(i) a determination by the Secretary that 
                        any dams that meet the criteria described in 
                        paragraph (1) have received the necessary 
                        funding to complete rehabilitation, 
                        reconstruction, or replacement activities under 
                        this subsection; and
                            ``(ii) a determination by the Secretary 
                        that amounts made available under section 
                        40901(2)(B) remain available.''.
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