To provide loan forgiveness under Clean Water State Resolving Funds to local irrigation districts.

SA 4991. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Wyden) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 4979 proposed by Mr.
Inhofe to the bill S. 2848, to provide for the conservation and
development of water and related resources, to authorize the Secretary
of the Army to construct various projects for improvements to rivers
and harbors of the United States, and for other purposes; as follows:

At the end of subtitle B of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 7206. LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR LOCAL IRRIGATION DISTRICTS.

Subsection (j)(1) of section 603 of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1383) (as redesignated by
section 7202(b)(1)(A)(ii)) is amended--
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking
``to a municipality or an intermunicipal, interstate, or
State agency'' and inserting ``to an eligible recipient'';
and
(2) in subparagraph (A), in the matter preceding clause
(i), by inserting ``in assistance to a municipality or
intermunicipal, interstate, or State agency'' before ``to
benefit''.
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