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H.R. 4835: Quality Water Supply Enhancement Act

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H.R. 4835: Quality Water Supply Enhancement Act

108th Congress · introduced 2004-07-14 · Water Resources Development · Latest: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2004-07-14 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Executive Comment Requested from Interior. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Quality Water Supply Enhancement Act

Plain summary

Quality Water Supply Enhancement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with specified Federal agencies (Water Resource Agencies or WRAs) and the lead facility described in the National Water Supply Technology Program White Paper (Program Coordinator), to establish and carry out a desalination and advanced water supply enhancement demonstration program and fund demonstration projects. Directs the Program Coordinator to: (1) construct a facility for administering the program; (2) conduct peer review of proposals and research results; (3) create a roadmap to identify the best projects and make determinations about which would most substantially improve the use of existing supplies; (4) coordinate budgets for projects at, and provide funding to, Regional Centers; (5) establish a transfer program to identify and facilitate full commercialization of promising projects; (6) implement crosscutting research to develop sensor and monitoring systems for water and energy efficiency and management; (7) establish a Water Supply Advisory Panel; and (8) provide competitive funding mechanisms to eligible institutions and individuals for projects. Designates the Utton Center at the University of New Mexico Law School as the National Water Policy Institute.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Quality Water Supply Enhancement Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11] · 5 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Ken Calvert (R-CA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong108-hr4835 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong108 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong108