Water Supply Cost Savings Act or the Savings Act
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture to: (1) update their programs that provide drinking water technical assistance to include information on cost-effective, innovative, and alternative drinking water delivery systems; and (2) disseminate information on the cost effectiveness of alternative drinking water delivery systems, including wells and well systems, to communities and nonprofit organizations seeking federal funding for drinking water systems serving 500 or fewer persons.
Applicants for funding for drinking water systems serving 500 or fewer persons must consider drinking water delivery systems sourced by publicly owned individual, shared, and community wells.
| Action Date | Type | Text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-16 | Committee | Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit. | House committee actions |
| 2015-03-06 | Committee | Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy. | House committee actions |
| 2015-02-27 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | House floor actions |
| 2015-02-27 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | House floor actions |
| 2015-02-27 | IntroReferral | Introduced in House | Library of Congress |