§2.Definitions
This section defines terms for purposes of the Act, including: (1) disadvantaged community (i.e., a community with annual median income less than the statewide median, per the most recent decennial census); (2) eligible entity (i.e., a State, Indian Tribe, acequia, land grant-merced, local government, water supplier, special district, conservation district, municipal water district, certain authorities, nonprofit conservation organization, or combination thereof, located in an eligible State); (3) eligible State (i.e., a State covered by the Reclamation Act of 1902 [43 U.S.C. 391], Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico); (4) Indian Tribe (as defined in 25 U.S.C. 5304); (5) multi-benefit water project (i.e., a project in an eligible State that enhances community resilience to climate impacts on water supplies, promotes water efficiency and recycling, addresses infrastructure risks, improves drinking water access, supports rural/Tribal/disadvantaged economies, enhances recreation, or encourages sustainable water management, while providing ecosystem benefits such as habitat conservation, water quality improvement, and invasive species protection); (6) natural feature (i.e., a feature created by physical, geological, biological, and chemical processes); (7) nature-based feature (i.e., a human-engineered feature that reduces water imbalances or drought/flood risk in concert with natural processes); (8) Program (i.e., the Water Project Navigators Program established under section 3(a)); (9) rural community (i.e., a community or group of communities, each with a population of not more than 50,000 inhabitants, potentially including Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, dispersed homesites, and rural areas); and (10) Secretary (i.e., the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation).