[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 879 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 879

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide grants for 
    projects that demonstrate technologies and methods for reducing 
   discharges from combined sewer overflows into navigable waters of 
                        interstate significance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 9, 1995

  Mr. Olver (for himself and Mr. Neal) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide grants for 
    projects that demonstrate technologies and methods for reducing 
   discharges from combined sewer overflows into navigable waters of 
                        interstate significance.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW TECHNOLOGIES.

    Section 105 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1255) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(k) Combined Sewer Overflow Technologies.--
            ``(1) Demonstration projects.--The Administrator is 
        authorized to make grants to State, interstate, regional, and 
        local entities for projects that demonstrate innovative and 
        cost-effective technologies and methods for reducing discharges 
        from combined sewer overflows into navigable waters of 
        interstate significance.
            ``(2) Consistency with epa policy.--The Administrator may 
        make a grant for a project under this subsection only if the 
        Administrator determines that the project is consistent with 
        any national combined sewer overflow policy of the 
        Environmental Protection Agency in effect during the period of 
        review of the application for the project.
            ``(3) Priority.--In awarding grants under this subsection, 
        the Administrator shall give priority consideration to projects 
        that provide for the transfer of technologies demonstrated 
        under the project to other areas of the United States.
            ``(4) Project elements.--The Administrator may make an 
        individual grant under this subsection for carrying out each 
        the following elements of a project:
                    ``(A) A feasibility study.
                    ``(B) Engineering and design.
                    ``(C) Construction.
            ``(5) Federal share.--The Federal share of the costs of a 
        project carried out using amounts from grants under this 
        subsection shall not exceed--
                    ``(A) 100 percent of the cost of a feasibility 
                study for the project;
                    ``(B) 80 percent of the cost of engineering and 
                design for the project; and
                    ``(C) 80 percent of the cost of construction of the 
                project.
            ``(6) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated to carry out this subsection $100,000,000 
        per fiscal year for each of fiscal years 1996 through 2001.''.
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