S.Amdt. 2963

SA 2963. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

SEC. 10__. SAN FRANCISCO BAY RESTORATION PROGRAM.

Section 125 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
U.S.C. 1276a) is amended--
(1) in the section heading, by striking ``grant''; and
(2) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:
``(e) Funding Program.--
``(1) In general.--The Director may provide funding through
cooperative agreements, grants, interagency agreements,
contracts, or other funding mechanisms to Federal, State, and
local agencies, special districts, public or nonprofit
agencies, and other public or private entities, institutions,
and organizations, including the Estuary Partnership, for
projects, activities, and studies identified on the annual
priority list compiled under subsection (c).
``(2) Maximum amount of funding.--
``(A) Grants.--
``(i) Maximum amount.--Amounts provided in the form of a
grant to any entity under this section for a fiscal year
shall not exceed an amount equal to 75 percent of the total
cost of any project, activity, or study that are to be
carried out using those amounts.
``(ii) Non-federal share.--Not less than 25 percent of the
cost of any project, activity, or study carried out using
amounts provided in the form of a grant under this section
shall be provided from non-Federal sources.
``(B) Interagency agreements and contracts.--Amounts
provided to entities under interagency agreements, contracts,
or other funding mechanisms under this section not described
in subparagraph (A) may cover up to 100 percent of the total
cost of any project, activity, or study that is to be carried
out using those amounts.''.
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