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117th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6719
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 11, 2022Mr. McKinley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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.
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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.
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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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