Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73

§2403 Rural water programs assessment

Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 42— - RURAL WATER SUPPLY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - RECLAMATION RURAL WATER SUPPLY › § 2403

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must work with the heads of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Indian Health Service, Housing and Urban Development, and the Army to create an assessment of rural water supply projects and programs. The assessment must describe unfinished rural water projects authorized before December 22, 2006 (including money already appropriated, development stage, expected total costs, and obstacles), plans and money and workforce needed to finish them on their required schedules, the need for new projects, other agencies’ rural water programs (their rules, funding, and who is eligible), how much need the Secretary’s Program can meet, how the Program will fit with existing agency powers, and ways to better coordinate or combine agency activities. Before finishing the assessment, the Secretary must ask States with rural water needs for comments. No later than 2 years after December 22, 2006, the Secretary must send a detailed report on the assessment to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §2403

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(a)In consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Director of the Indian Health Service, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary shall develop an assessment of—

(1)the status of all rural water supply projects under the jurisdiction of the Secretary authorized but not completed prior to December 22, 2006, including appropriation amounts, the phase of development, total anticipated costs, and obstacles to completion;

(2)the current plan (including projected financial and workforce requirements) for the completion of the projects identified in paragraph (1) within the time frames established under the provisions of law authorizing the projects or the final engineering reports for the projects;

(3)the demand for new rural water supply projects;

(4)rural water programs within other agencies and a description of the extent to which those programs provide support for rural water supply projects and water treatment programs in Reclamation States, including an assessment of the requirements, funding levels, and conditions of eligibility for the programs assessed;

(5)the extent of the demand that the Secretary can meet with the Program;

(6)how the Program will complement authorities already within the jurisdiction of the Secretary and the heads of the agencies with whom the Secretary consults; and

(7)improvements that can be made to coordinate and integrate the authorities of the agencies with programs evaluated under paragraph (4), including any recommendations to consolidate some or all of the activities of the agencies with respect to rural water supply.

(b)Before finalizing the assessment developed under subsection (a), the Secretary shall solicit comments from States with identified rural water needs.

(c)Not later than 2 years after December 22, 2006, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives a detailed report on the assessment conducted under subsection (a).

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Citation

43 U.S.C. § 2403

Title 43 — Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73