S.Amdt. 1470

SA 1470. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 1460 proposed by Mr. Carper (for himself and Mrs.
Capito) to the bill S. 914, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act and
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize programs under
those Acts, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

At the end of section 102, add the following:
(c) Allotment Requirement.--Section 1452(m) of the Safe
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12(m)) is amended by
adding at the end the following:
``(3) Requirement.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, of the amounts made available under paragraph (1) for
capitalization grants to State loan funds, the Administrator
shall use 5 percent to make capitalization grants to States
in which the majority of public water systems are at least 50
years in age for the purpose of modernizing those public
water systems.''.

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