[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6719 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6719

  To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 and the Water 
Resources Development Act of 1999 to provide assistance to non-Federal 
 interests for water-related environmental infrastructure projects in 
      northern and southern West Virginia, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 11, 2022

 Mr. McKinley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 and the Water 
Resources Development Act of 1999 to provide assistance to non-Federal 
 interests for water-related environmental infrastructure projects in 
      northern and southern West Virginia, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SEC. 1. SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION INFRASTRUCTURE 
              AND RESOURCE PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT PILOT PROGRAM.

    Section 340(f) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106 
Stat. 4856) is amended by inserting ``Gilmer, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, 
Jackson, Roane, Clay, Wirt, Calhoun, Braxton, Pendleton,'' before 
``Raleigh''.

SEC. 2. NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.

    Section 571 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (113 
Stat. 371) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading by striking ``central'' and 
        inserting ``northern'';
            (2) by striking ``central'' and inserting ``northern'' each 
        place it appears; and
            (3) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following:
    ``(a) Definition of Northern West Virginia.--In this section, the 
term `northern West Virginia' means the counties of Lewis, Upshur, 
Randolph, Hardy, Hampshire, Morgan, Berkeley, Jefferson, Hancock, Ohio, 
Marshall, Wetzel, Tyler, Pleasants, Wood, Doddridge, Monongalia, 
Marion, Harrison, Taylor, Barbour, Preston, Tucker, Mineral, Grant, 
Brooke, and Ritchie, West Virginia.''.
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