H-1251

   Amend House File 650 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, after line 33 by inserting: 
   <(c)  Of the moneys appropriated in this lettered paragraph, an amount not to exceed $500,000 shall be allocated and awarded as grants by the department to reimburse wastewater utilities subject to permitting under the national pollutant discharge elimination system in an amount not to exceed fifty percent of a wastewater utility’s direct costs of operating nitrate removal systems during the period beginning January 1, 2015, and ending December 31, 2016. If the total amount of claims for reimbursement as provided in this subparagraph division exceed $500,000, the department shall award grants to wastewater utilities on a pro-rata basis.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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HUNTER of Polk