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42 U.S. Code § 10364. Water management improvement
(a) Authorization of grants and cooperative agreements
(1) Authority of SecretaryThe Secretary may provide any grant to, or enter into an agreement with, any eligible applicant to assist the eligible applicant in planning, designing, or constructing any improvement or carrying out any activity—
(A)
to conserve water;
(B)
to increase water use efficiency;
(C)
to facilitate water markets;
(D)
to enhance water management, including increasing the use of renewable energy in the management and delivery of water;
(E)
to accelerate the adoption and use of advanced water treatment technologies to increase water supply;
(F)
to assist States and water users in complying with interstate compacts or reducing basin water supply-demand imbalances;
(G)
to achieve the prevention of the decline of species that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service have proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) (or candidate species that are being considered by those agencies for such listing but are not yet the subject of a proposed rule);
(H)
to achieve the acceleration of the recovery of threatened species, endangered species, and designated critical habitats that are adversely affected by Federal reclamation projects or are subject to a recovery plan or conservation plan under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) under which the Commissioner of Reclamation has implementation responsibilities;
(I)
to improve the condition of a natural feature; or
(J) to carry out any other activity—
(i)
to address any climate-related impact to the water supply of the United States that increases ecological resiliency to the impacts of climate change;
(ii)
to prevent any water-related crisis or conflict at any watershed that has a nexus to a Federal reclamation project located in a service area; or
(iii)
to plan for or address the impacts of drought.
(2) ApplicationTo be eligible to receive a grant, or enter into an agreement with the Secretary under paragraph (1), an eligible applicant shall—
(A) be located within—
(i)
the States and areas referred to in section 391 of title 43;
(ii)
the State of Alaska;
(iii)
the State of Hawaii; or
(iv)
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and
(B) submit to the Secretary an application that includes—
(i)
a proposal of the improvement or activity to be planned, designed, constructed, or implemented by the eligible applicant; and
(ii) for a project that is intended to have a quantifiable water savings and would receive a grant of $500,000 or more—
(I)
a proposal for a monitoring plan of at least 5 years that would demonstrate ways in which the proposed improvement or activity would result in improved streamflows or aquatic habitat; or
(II)
for a project that does not anticipate improved streamflows or aquatic habitat, an analysis of ways in which the proposed improvement or activity would contribute to 1 or more of the other objectives described in paragraph (1).