[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3313 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3313

  To amend section 119 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to 
 reauthorize the program for Long Island Sound, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 10, 1999

Mrs. Johnson of Connecticut (for herself, Mr. Lazio, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. 
 Gejdenson, Mr. Boehlert, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Shays, Mr. Larson, Mr. King, 
  Mr. Maloney of Connecticut, Mr. Walsh, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Gilman, Mr. 
Owens, Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. McCarthy of New York, Mr. Fossella, Mr. Towns, 
  Mr. McHugh, Mr. Weiner, Mr. Sweeney, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Crowley, Mr. 
 Forbes, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Nadler, Mr. McNulty, Mr. Engel, Mrs. Maloney 
 of New York, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Meeks of New York, Ms. Velazquez, and 
 Mr. Rangel) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend section 119 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to 
 reauthorize the program for Long Island Sound, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Long Island Sound Restoration Act''.

SEC. 2. NITROGEN CREDIT TRADING SYSTEM AND OTHER MEASURES.

    Section 119(c)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1269(c)(1)) is amended by inserting ``, including efforts to 
establish, within the process for granting watershed general permits, a 
system for trading nitrogen credits and any other measures that are 
cost-effective and consistent with the goals of the Plan'' before the 
semicolon at the end.

SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE FOR DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES.

    Section 119 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1269) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (f); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following:
    ``(e) Assistance to Distressed Communities.--
            ``(1) Eligible communities.--
                    ``(A) States to determine criteria.--For the 
                purposes of this subsection, a distressed community is 
                any community that meets affordability criteria 
                established by the State in which the community is 
                located, if such criteria are developed after public 
                review and comment.
                    ``(B) Consideration of impact on water and sewer 
                rates.--In determining if a community is a distressed 
                community for the purposes of this subsection, the 
                State shall consider the extent to which the rate of 
                growth of a community's tax base has been historically 
                slow such that implementing the plan described in 
                subsection (c)(1) would result in a significant 
                increase in any water or sewer rate charged by the 
                community's publicly-owned wastewater treatment 
                facility.
                    ``(C) Information to assist states.--The 
                Administrator may publish information to assist States 
                in establishing affordability criteria under 
                subparagraph (A).
            ``(2) Revolving fund loans.--
                    ``(A) Interest rate.--Subject to subparagraph (B), 
                any State making a loan to a distressed community from 
                a revolving fund under title VI for the purpose of 
                assisting the implementation of the plan described in 
                subsection (c)(1) may charge a negative interest rate 
                not to exceed 2 percent to reduce the unpaid principal 
                of the loan.
                    ``(B) Limitation.--The aggregate amount of all 
                negative interest rate loans made by a State under 
                subparagraph (A) in a fiscal year shall not exceed 20 
                percent of the aggregate amount of all loans made by 
                the State from its revolving loan in such fiscal year.
            ``(3) Priority.--In making assistance available under this 
        section for the upgrading of wastewater treatment facilities, a 
        State may give priority to a distressed community.''.

SEC. 4. REAUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 119(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (as 
redesignated by section 3 of this Act) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``1991 through 2001'' and 
        inserting ``2000 through 2003''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``not to exceed 
        $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1991 through 2001'' and 
        inserting ``not to exceed $80,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
        2000 through 2003''.
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