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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 250
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to make certain projects
and activities eligible for financial assistance under a State water pollu-
tion control revolving fund, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY10, 2023
Mr. G
ARAMENDI(for himself and Mr. BOST) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to make
certain projects and activities eligible for financial assist-
ance under a State water pollution control revolving
fund, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Water SRF Par-4
ity Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES ELIGIBLE FOR ASSIST-1
ANCE. 2
Section 603 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 3
Act (33 U.S.C. 1383) is amended— 4
(1) in subsection (c)— 5
(A) in paragraph (11)(B) by striking 6
‘‘and’’ at the end; 7
(B) in paragraph (12)(B) by striking the 8
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 9
(C) by adding at the end the following: 10
‘‘(13) to any qualified nonprofit entity, as de-11
termined by the Administrator, to provide assistance 12
for the construction or acquisition of, or improve-13
ments to, a treatment works, or for any other activ-14
ity described in paragraphs (1) through (10).’’; 15
(2) in subsection (i)(3), by adding at the end 16
the following: 17
‘‘(E) C
ERTAIN ACTIVITIES INELIGIBLE.—A 18
State may not provide additional subsidization 19
under this subsection to a qualified nonprofit 20
entity for assistance described in subsection 21
(c)(13) or to the owner or operator of a pri-22
vately owned treatment works for assistance de-23
scribed in subsection (k).’’; and 24
(3) by adding at the end the following: 25
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‘‘(k) SPECIALRULE FORPRIVATELYOWNEDTREAT-1
MENTWORKS.— 2
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—In any fiscal year for which 3
the total amount appropriated to carry out this title 4
exceeds $1,638,826,000, any such amounts appro-5
priated in excess of $1,638,826,000 for such fiscal 6
year may be used to provide financial assistance 7
under this section to the owner or operator of a pri-8
vately owned treatment works for— 9
‘‘(A) improvements to such privately owned 10
treatment works; 11
‘‘(B) the construction of, or improvements 12
to, another privately owned treatment works; 13
‘‘(C) measures to reduce the demand for 14
privately owned treatment works capacity 15
through water conservation, efficiency, or reuse; 16
‘‘(D) measures to reduce the energy con-17
sumption needs for privately owned treatment 18
works; 19
‘‘(E) measures to increase the security of 20
privately owned treatment works; and 21
‘‘(F) any other activity described in para-22
graphs (1) through (10) of subsection (c). 23
‘‘(2) L
IMITATION.—Financial assistance may 24
only be provided under this subsection to the owner 25
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or operator of a privately owned treatment works for 1
activities described in paragraph (1) that primarily 2
and directly benefit the individuals or entities served 3
by the privately owned treatment works, and not the 4
shareholders or owners of the treatment works, as 5
determined by the instrumentality of the State re-6
sponsible for administering the water pollution con-7
trol revolving fund through which such financial as-8
sistance is provided.’’. 9
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