Title 43Public LandsRelease 119-73

§390h–6 Phoenix metropolitan water reclamation study and program

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Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must work with the city of Phoenix to plan, design, and build a project that fully reuses regional wastewater for city, industrial, farm, environmental uses, groundwater recharge, and indirect drinking-water supply. Federal funding can pay no more than 25% of the project costs, and no federal money may be used for operation or maintenance.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §390h–6

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(a)The Secretary, in cooperation with the city of Phoenix, Arizona, shall participate in the planning, design, and construction of the Phoenix Metropolitan Water Reclamation and Reuse Project to utilize fully wastewater from the regional wastewater treatment plant for direct municipal, industrial, agricultural and environmental purposes, groundwater recharge and indirect potable reuse in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
(b)The Federal share of the costs associated with the project described in subsection (a) shall not exceed 25 per centum of the total. The Secretary shall not provide funds for operation or maintenance of the project.

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1999—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–53, § 596(1), added subsec. (a) and struck out former subsec. (a) which read as follows: “The Secretary, in cooperation with the city of Phoenix, Arizona, shall conduct a feasibility study of the potential for development of facilities to utilize fully wastewater from the regional wastewater treatment plant for direct municipal, industrial, agricultural, and environmental purposes, groundwater recharge and direct potable reuse in the Phoenix metropolitan area, and in cooperation with the city of Phoenix design and construct facilities for environmental purposes, ground water recharge and direct potable reuse.” Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106–53, § 596(2), struck out first sentence which read as follows: “The Federal share of the costs of the study authorized by this section shall not exceed 50 per centum of the total.” Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–53, § 596(3), struck out subsec. (c) which read as follows: “The Secretary shall submit the report authorized by this section to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives not later than two years after appropriation of funds authorized by sections 390h to 390h–15 of this title.” 1994—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Natural Resources” for “Interior and Insular Affairs” before “of the House”.

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43 U.S.C. § 390h–6

Title 43Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73