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Page 4 of 51 Financial Assistance Agreement Between Bureau of Reclamation And City of Santa Ana For Landscape Transformation Program I. OVERVIEW AND SCHEDULE 1. AUTHORITY This Financial Assistance Agreement (Agreement) is entered into between the United States of America, acting through the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and City of Santa Ana (Recipient), pursuant to Section 9504(a) of the SECURE WATER ACT, Subtitle F of Title IX of the OMNIBUS PUBLIC LAND MANAGEMENT ACT OF 2009, Public Law 111-11 (42 U.S.C. 10364) (the "Act"). The following section, provided in full text, authorizes Reclamation to award this financial assistance agreement: SEC. 9504. WATER MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT. (a) Authorization of grants and cooperative agreements. (1) Authority of Secretary. The 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); R22AP00055 Agreement Template City of Santa Ana (0112021)