S.Amdt. 3730

SA 3730. Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself, Ms. Collins, and Mr. King)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S.
2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 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 appropriate place in subtitle F of title X, insert
the following:

SEC. 10__. TECHNICAL FIX FOR STATE RESPONSE TO CONTAMINANTS
PROGRAM.

Section 1459A(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C.
300j-19a(j)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1)--
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking
``subsection (c)(2)'' and inserting ``clause (i) or (ii) of
subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3) or a drinking water well
owner described in subparagraph (B) of that paragraph'';
(B) by striking ``contaminant--'' and all that follows
through ``to--'' in subparagraph (A) in the matter preceding
clause (i) and inserting ``contaminant that is determined by
the State--'';
(C) by striking subparagraph (B);
(D) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as subparagraphs
(A) and (B), respectively, and indenting appropriately;
(E) in subparagraph (A) (as so redesignated)--
(i) by inserting ``to'' before ``be present'';
(ii) by striking ``serving,'' and inserting ``serving a
community''; and
(iii) by striking ``for, that community''; and
(F) in subparagraph (B) (as so redesignated)--
(i) by inserting ``to'' before ``potentially''; and
(ii) by striking ``; and'' at the end and inserting a
period; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(3) Eligibility for assistance or as a beneficiary of
assistance.--For purposes of this subsection, the
Administrator may issue a grant to a State--
``(A) that is requesting a grant on behalf of--
``(i) a community that, under the affordability criteria
established by the State under section 1452(d)(3), is
determined by the State to be--

``(I) a disadvantaged community; or
``(II) a community that may become a disadvantaged
community as a result of carrying out an activity described
in paragraph (1); or

``(ii) a community with a population of fewer than 10,000
individuals that the Administrator determines does not have
the capacity to incur debt sufficient to finance an activity
described in paragraph (1); or
``(B) for the benefit of 1 or more owners of drinking water
wells that are not public water systems and are not connected
to a public water system.''.
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