§ 390h-6. — Phoenix metropolitan water reclamation study and program.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC390h-6]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 390h-6. Phoenix metropolitan water reclamation study and
program
(a) General authority
The Secretary, in cooperation with the city of Phoenix, Arizona,
shall participate in the planning, design, and construction of the
Phoenix Metropolitan Water Reclamation and Reuse Project to utilize
fully wastewater from the regional wastewater treatment plant for direct
municipal, industrial, agricultural and environmental purposes,
groundwater recharge and indirect potable reuse in the Phoenix
metropolitan area.
(b) Federal share
The Federal share of the costs associated with the project described
in subsection (a) of this section shall not exceed 25 per centum of the
total. The Secretary shall not provide funds for operation or
maintenance of the project.
(Pub. L. 102-575, title XVI, Sec. 1608, Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 4666;
Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 16(a)(2), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4594; Pub. L.
106-53, title V, Sec. 596, Aug. 17, 1999, 113 Stat. 384.)
Amendments
1999--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106-53, Sec. 596(1), added subsec. (a)
and struck out former subsec. (a) which read as follows: ``The
Secretary, in cooperation with the city of Phoenix, Arizona, shall
conduct a feasibility study of the potential for development of
facilities to utilize fully wastewater from the regional wastewater
treatment plant for direct municipal, industrial, agricultural, and
environmental purposes, groundwater recharge and direct potable reuse in
the Phoenix metropolitan area, and in cooperation with the city of
Phoenix design and construct facilities for environmental purposes,
ground water recharge and direct potable reuse.''
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106-53, Sec. 596(2), struck out first sentence
which read as follows: ``The Federal share of the costs of the study
authorized by this section shall not exceed 50 per centum of the
total.''
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106-53, Sec. 596(3), struck out subsec. (c)
which read as follows: ``The Secretary shall submit the report
authorized by this section to the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the
House of Representatives not later than two years after appropriation of
funds authorized by sections 390h to 390h-15 of this title.''
1994--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Natural Resources''
for ``Interior and Insular Affairs'' before ``of the House''.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 390h-2, 390h-13 of this
title.
