1.Short title; table of contents
(a)This Act may be cited as the
Water Infrastructure Financing
Act
.
(b)The table of contents of this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of
contents.
TITLE I—Water pollution infrastructure
Sec. 101. Technical assistance for rural small treatment works
and medium treatment works.
Sec. 102. Projects eligible for assistance.
Sec. 103. Affordability.
Sec. 104. Water pollution control revolving loan
funds.
Sec. 105. Transferability of funds.
Sec. 106. Noncompliance.
Sec. 107. Negotiation of contracts.
Sec. 108. Allotment of funds.
Sec. 109. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 110. Sewer overflow control grants.
Sec. 111. Capitalization grant
agreements.
Sec. 112. Critical water infrastructure projects.
TITLE II—Safe drinking water infrastructure
Sec. 201. Contaminant prevention, detection, and
response.
Sec. 202. Drinking water technical assistance for
communities.
Sec. 203. Preservation of
employee labor standards.
Sec. 204. Preconstruction work.
Sec. 205. Priority system requirements.
Sec. 206. Affordability.
Sec. 207. Safe drinking water revolving loan funds.
Sec. 208. Other authorized activities.
Sec. 209. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 210. Negotiation of contracts.
Sec. 211. Critical drinking water infrastructure
projects.
Sec. 212. District of Columbia lead service line
replacement.
TITLE III—Miscellaneous
Sec. 301. Definitions.
Sec. 302. Program for water quality enhancement and
management.
Sec. 303. Agricultural pollution control technology grant
program.
Sec. 304. State revolving fund review process.
Sec. 305. Cost of service study.
Sec. 306. Water management study.
Sec. 307. Reduction in
authorization of appropriations.
<enum>I</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Water pollution infrastructure</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID72c3a236c4aa4bee941143dbb8907065" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical assistance for rural small
treatment works and medium treatment works</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDca3faed7f89a4c548f6750489eed152c"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title II of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1281 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8D007525647D40008936CDDB67D9CD83" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfe83b3cbe1b844dd87d2260f78e07441" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>222.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical assistance for rural small
treatment works and medium treatment works</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8cb32898ccea4b1798d33f56cc7b9468"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe25f3076f4744731aac83bfdc0cb9322"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Decentralized wastewater system</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa8a6d86b83ca4530bfe5ede69a05a681"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>decentralized wastewater
system</term> means a wastewater treatment system that is at or near a site at
which wastewater is generated.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4e6205b8ff01417191de03abefd8b697"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Inclusions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>decentralized wastewater
system</term> includes a system that provides for—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4efd685997794007811e9747e6ab961c"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">nonpotable reuse of treated effluent;
or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8d86d1ab99a243549cfc7a5950886b0c"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">energy and nutrient recovery from
wastewater constituents.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDce6be5c506c742a78b637f2315f8ccef"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Medium treatment works</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>medium treatment
works</term> means a publicly owned treatment works serving more than 10,000
but fewer than 100,000 individuals.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID14f12406fcb64899acd5e2ecac3cfd79"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Qualified nonprofit technical assistance
provider</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
<term>qualified nonprofit technical assistance provider</term> means a
qualified nonprofit technical assistance provider of water and wastewater
services to small or medium-sized communities that provides technical
assistance (including circuit rider, multi-State regional assistance programs,
and training and preliminary engineering evaluations) to owners and operators
of small treatment works or medium treatment works that may include State
agencies.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2700999643964d1dbf6159eb41f37e28"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Small treatment works</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>small treatment works</term>
means a publicly owned treatment works serving not more than 10,000
individuals.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID85bd8016d23e4365b9b38054a2f62ea3"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant program</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1a4a03a613904905872ff3895fd44578"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may make grants on a
competitive basis to qualified nonprofit technical assistance providers that
are qualified to provide assistance on a broad range of wastewater and
stormwater approaches—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID90d8da21362a410a8cb641d3efb06ec3"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to assist owners and operators of small
treatment works and medium treatment works to plan, develop, and obtain
financing for eligible projects described in section 603(c) or 518(c);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6d18196463d1478ea1609c39e9a63ca9"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide financial assistance, in
consultation with the State in which the assistance is provided, to owners and
operators of small treatment works and medium treatment works for
predevelopment costs (including costs for planning, design, and associated
preconstruction activities, such as activities relating directly to the siting
of the facility and related elements) associated with stormwater or wastewater
infrastructure projects or short-term costs incurred for equipment replacement
that is not part of regular operation and maintenance activities for existing
stormwater or wastewater systems, if the amount of assistance for any single
project does not exceed $50,000;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbce32609a67c4f659b645439f4876126"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide technical assistance and
training for owners and operators of small treatment works and medium treatment
works to enable those treatment works and systems to protect water quality and
achieve and maintain compliance with this Act; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4a99e2a924ed41818a5799d0a0a7354f"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to disseminate information to owners and
operators of small treatment works and medium treatment works, with respect to
planning, design, construction, and operation of treatment works, small
municipal separate storm sewer systems, and decentralized wastewater treatment
systems.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0186ad668ab042948fbac1cf3984d327"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Distribution of grant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out this subsection, the
Administrator shall ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that technical
assistance provided using funds from a grant under paragraph (1) is made
available in each State.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7e8ef0b34436400db27b0fa3db8b5583"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consultation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As a condition of receiving a grant under
this subsection, a qualified nonprofit technical assistance provider shall
agree to consult with each State in which grant funds are to be expended before
the grant funds are expended in the State.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd28a08d0d37f44e89e164ec4feb865a0"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after the end of
each fiscal year, a qualified nonprofit technical assistance provider that
receives a grant under this subsection shall submit to the Administrator a
report that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf00556ff1090432e89a300c8ff62402e"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">describes the activities of the qualified
nonprofit technical assistance provider using grant funds received under this
subsection for the fiscal year; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDee4474fe0b884a40bb87d1a24ff9ee3e"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">specifies—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8ec988f4bfe2454d9d4c744cb21d4539"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of communities served;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc1807f7ff1a640f1bbd45e2e2201a34e"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the sizes of those communities; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa8e04a532779458aa36a86b06d770ff6"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the type of assistance provided by the
qualified nonprofit technical assistance provider.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb175192b57654171a3950eacaee76f1f"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF7D38E49382B4ACB98F45F8D93FB56CF"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for grants for small treatment works,
$25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through 2013; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID67d0943ea8c5491580e59ea8aec53af7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for grants for medium treatment works,
$15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through
2013.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa4cdc4a3f1264a8f87873016e3cc9c5e"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Guidance for small systems</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 602 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1382) is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1DD64BD562D446B8A451AC5166C121D6" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9b130a2546f0403bb692367edd6421a8"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Guidance for small systems</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8a6a855e4bd14808bb64cfb63fbaa75f"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of small system</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection, the term <term>small
system</term> means a system—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2192bceea50c42ae87d869eba08b81ef"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for which a municipality or intermunicipal,
interstate, or State agency seeks assistance under this title; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf78b96d798964906a6c8964a8c6ed4d9"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that serves a population of not more than
10,000 individuals.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3abb06843dd84472b2e72136fd3ed5da"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Simplified procedures</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of
enactment of this subsection, the Administrator shall assist the States in
establishing simplified procedures for small systems to obtain assistance under
this title.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc95b9720f291410eba2390328efcba72"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Publication of manual</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of
enactment of this subsection, after providing notice and opportunity for public
comment, the Administrator shall publish—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID85de0b9622f84211af913fed046bbe01"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a manual to assist small systems in
obtaining assistance under this title; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID718246972b7f4c3485b240863a0ae566"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the Federal Register, notice of the
availability of the
manual.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1e4bfced16134d39820660b65a392fa3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Projects eligible for
assistance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 603 of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1383) is amended by striking
subsection (c) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD92C6C60A9EF4DD4B675CB0DA0FBA292" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAA6FCA9451144814A4955FB8944EA951"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Projects eligible for
assistance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds in each
State water pollution control revolving fund shall be used only by a
municipality or an intermunicipal, interstate, or State agency (or, for the
purpose of paragraph (1), by either of those entities or a private treatment
works or decentralized wastewater system that principally treats municipal
wastewater or domestic sewage)—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD1CC56CD86894EAD9DECEF66D1479892"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide financial assistance for
construction activities (including expansion to meet needs of existing
development), including planning, design, associated preconstruction planning
activities (as defined in section 212) and implementation measures to control,
manage, reduce, treat, infiltrate, or reuse municipal stormwater, the primary
purpose of which is the protection, preservation, or enhancement of water
quality to support public purposes (including the procurement and use of
equipment to support minimum measures, such as street sweeping and storm drain
system cleaning, and acquisition of other land and interests in land to meet
the needs of existing development that are necessary for those activities and
measures);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5B518D7CC9C34D54B8806C6DE4862267"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to implement a management program
established under section 319;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95C83599F0FB40E2AE5AE64D7C28D2B3"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to develop and implement a conservation and
management plan under section 320;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0D93F0452BEF4704B5774654B4FC42FC"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to increase the security of wastewater
treatment works (excluding any expenditure for operations or
maintenance);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id17C5E7F1C6D84BE087699B58F4C5DD02"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to carry out water conservation or
efficiency projects, the primary purpose of which is the protection,
preservation, or enhancement of water quality to support public
purposes;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB0DC9EF50ECD45CDA5FAB775152531A7"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to implement measures to integrate water
resource management planning and implementation;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id50C20FCC161F4B12A95F2F915CFE5288"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to carry out water and wastewater reuse,
reclamation, and recycling projects, the primary purpose of which is the
protection, preservation, or enhancement of water quality to support public
purposes; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6ECC2D696E5C4124B1808FDCA2ADE9DF"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for capital costs associated with
monitoring equipment for combined or sanitary sewer
overflows.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7ccd6f9894164ec8b7fb4a66d94cfa7c" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Affordability</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1373fe5e687f46d58ed7bf75d2bc88de"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In General</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 603 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1383) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7fc0a26ed7f14122af42a464a6c7961a"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (e) through
(h) as subsections (g) through (j), respectively;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb2d49f1c65924457a943edfe7dc759ea"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9C90A85DCDB54385B6D21BAB52347E8A"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbe0c88fd9f004d33a9b480ac50b2baa9"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>20
years</quote> and inserting <quote>the lesser of 30 years or the design life of
the project to be financed with the proceeds of the loan</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe892d2613cab4cb6bf5da785a7265437"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>not
later than 20 years after project completion</quote> and inserting <quote>upon
the expiration of the term of the loan</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEA9F0F8C8412482DB4C7C8E3035578BC"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (6), by striking
<quote>and</quote> at the end; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1B0709E0F8A24EACB479A3389F19C7EB"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (7), by striking <quote>title,
except that</quote> and all that follows and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA9FED405B8714AADAC3FD3AA7C5766C0" style="OLC">
<quoted-block-continuation-text commented="no" quoted-block-continuation-text-level="paragraph">title, except that—</quoted-block-continuation-text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id28DE2D0592F54873B0DE958341801135"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such amounts shall not exceed 6 percent of
all grant awards to the fund under this title; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB24BF7960F4242FB8E37D0B471D3EEB9"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if there is no appropriation for a fiscal
year, the total amount of the reasonable cost of administering the fund and
conducting activities under this title shall not exceed 6 percent of all loan
awards made by the State for that fiscal year; and</text>
</subparagraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF507894DDE964C1BAE2EACD0DC5D57E0"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">as a source of revenue (restricted solely
to interest earnings of the fund) or security for payment of the principal and
interest on revenue or general obligation bonds issued by the State to provide
matching funds under section 602(b)(2), if the proceeds of the sale of the
bonds will be deposited in the fund.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb45d741e82a44015aaa37951448ec4c8"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (d) the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id85898A0BB22945F9A7DEA9E2AB145E94" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4c61fe362b9f47e19d6295abbc614732"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Additional assistance for disadvantaged
communities</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID13e6e7a7e059464cba1a6f42ceb6448d"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of disadvantaged
community</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection,
the term <term>disadvantaged community</term> means a community with a service
area, or portion of a service area, of a treatment works that meets
affordability criteria established after public review and comment by the State
in which the treatment works is located.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6631c2c21534406e912cf53061b23224"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Loan subsidy</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of this
section, in a case in which the State makes a loan from the water pollution
control revolving loan fund in accordance with subsection (c) to a
disadvantaged community or a community that the State expects to become a
disadvantaged community as the result of a proposed project, the State may
provide additional subsidization, including—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd36bd2104ba44650a225c075007e5a7c"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the forgiveness of all or a portion of the
principal of the loan; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDabd42bc95f524e699d09c9556243c4ed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a negative interest rate on the
loan.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID34aa6970dab0491c9343170f706d9f0c"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Total amount of subsidies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For each fiscal year, the total amount of
loan subsidies made by the State pursuant to this subsection may not exceed 30
percent of the amount of the capitalization grant received by the State for the
fiscal year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2c06733b9d724576ab19cc89fd036d11"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may publish information
to assist States in establishing affordability criteria described in paragraph
(1).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5fbfd9793fb947f997b015474a9a6de1"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cost-saving water treatment and efficiency
improvements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to
subsection (e)(3), in providing a loan for a project under this section, a
State may forgive repayment of such portion of the loan amount, not to exceed 5
percent, as is equal to the percentage of the project that is devoted to
alternative approaches to wastewater and stormwater controls (including
nonstructural methods) such as projects that treat or minimize sewage or urban
stormwater discharges using—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfafca122886040e5ae318347bdcb506f"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">decentralized or distributed stormwater
controls;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1fb52bcc821a4f289e633300c324d295"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">decentralized wastewater treatment;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4343a2a30c4e4a6b9451034e3a276ce8"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">low-impact development technologies and
nonstructural approaches;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb7eb962e5f184052b90ff769e30b7404"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">stream buffers;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID06fd4da1c12a4001bef34b7b8360124a"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">wetland restoration and enhancement;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8a8d868a19e242c68c00adb27a66301e"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">actions to minimize the quantity of and
direct connections to impervious surfaces;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1c42459e5abd4d77947d9bd0c0fefafa"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">soil and vegetation, or other permeable
materials;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0afdf97922564123b0953e138e041485"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">actions that increase efficient water use,
water conservation, or water
reuse.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID26432e10273e418b98c282defe619c91"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming Amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 221(d) of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301(d)) is amended in the second sentence by
striking <quote>603(h)</quote> and inserting <quote>603(j)</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7c4f909ab15d44d48c66a8d3d163e8c9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>104.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Water pollution control revolving loan
funds</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 603 of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1383) is amended by striking
subsection (i) (as redesignated by section 103(a)(1)) and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id483CFCFCD7E4430D8877551E6DB0E8D9" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDab063797db4d40d8a60a0e98972ec1c5"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority system requirement</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID70e4752064da4ed8b259299f4ce8a60b"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDaf810c367c444ee3a279a96bab3bff3e"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Restructuring</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>restructuring</term>
means—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1a4bb8c517e34864adf0298e88d1f31d"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the consolidation of management functions
or ownership with another facility; or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe9dd259cf75b453aa99d96fa9d8f1c8f"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the formation of cooperative
partnerships.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDab021ea2237c46aa9773b96563596af4"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Traditional wastewater
approach</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
<term>traditional wastewater approach</term> means a managed system used to
collect and treat wastewater from an entire service area consisting of—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID146d7395ce10404db38184967e56b1c0"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">collection sewers;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2fd4e5fa15f141f9b8e87987ed4ab55c"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a centralized treatment plant using
biological, physical, or chemical treatment processes; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID55d468ec26e2406db78381fa5b6720a8"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a direct point source discharge to surface
water.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd618629533dd4d1c91106ac36bc05f5c"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority system</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In providing financial assistance from the
water pollution control revolving fund of the State, the State shall establish
a priority system that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7dba08929bee4de29b2dfb9e4fccc806"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">gives greater weight to an application for
assistance by the owner or operator of a treatment works if the application
includes—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2af4bb71b6904c6087074ae8378654c5"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an inventory of assets, including a
description of the condition of those assets;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID354a83eb54124cd5b21c38e3689b4096"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a schedule for replacement of the
assets;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc3383d6cc6fc41bfbf20a8dc94e8bfa4"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a financing plan that factors in all
lifecycle costs indicating sources of revenue from ratepayers, grants, bonds,
other loans, and other sources to meet the costs;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd2b344ef36bb4777b2b2dd43d0724716"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a review of options for restructuring the
treatment works; or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID767254ff1e884832a561c961c6901245"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">approaches other than a traditional
wastewater approach that treat or minimize sewage or urban stormwater
discharges using—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcaabb661d0734493bfe4f185505fa8a0"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">decentralized or distributed stormwater
controls;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID88d861a3cc1f482bb307480901e0edcf"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">decentralized wastewater treatment;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2be0a530cd5a4405a2e5a750191b3ad5"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">low-impact development technologies and
nonstructural approaches;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcfbe64fb442449d58a508195fdb8e03c"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">stream buffers;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5df0f2ff79354568aef692b95b964a42"><enum>(V)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">wetland restoration and enhancement;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0c5a3c79e5b140c894002ad3247e9217"><enum>(VI)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">actions to minimize the quantity of and
direct connections to impervious surfaces;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2bc3960af4cf43b29889d6cf79e7b533"><enum>(VII)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">soil and vegetation, or other permeable
materials; or</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb779d8006ea247a6a4e24396dd884e13"><enum>(VIII)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">actions that increase efficient water use,
water conservation, or water reuse;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2256bc25371a415aae2d6ccf81f26318"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a demonstration of consistency with State,
regional, and municipal watershed plans, water conservation and efficiency
plans, or integrated water resource management plans;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDac8e092548794fddac72c3a49b2825eb"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a proposal by the applicant demonstrating
flexibility through alternative means to carry out responsibilities under
Federal regulations, that may include watershed permitting and other innovative
management approaches, while achieving results that—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc61ebb685dd8404797535ebdb5e96941"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the State, in the case of a permit program
approved under section 402, determines will meet permit requirements; or</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa7555d1ffb4641009912d9fa1bcf7d59"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Administrator determines are measurably
superior when compared to regulatory standards;</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID89f4d267c4b4413088d2b5c46b65961f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">takes into consideration appropriate
chemical, physical, and biological data relating to water quality that the
State considers reasonably available and of sufficient quality;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID99e2bc4d92134f36a861437a33888b4f"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provides for public notice and opportunity
to comment on the establishment of the priority system and the summary under
subparagraph (D);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3b180867d52140f4bc430d69b655a58b"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provides for the publication, not less than
biennially in summary form, of a description of projects in the State that are
eligible for assistance under this title that indicates—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9297a1e357b749fba923816cde202317"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the priority assigned to each project under
the priority system of the State; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa1d0fc036bc94fd4b39845d2e50b9c19"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the funding schedule for each project, to
that extent the information is available; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd44ce1031e96410b8a31bb86baae9b5d"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensures that projects undertaken with
assistance under this title are designed to achieve, as determined by the
State, the optimum water quality management, consistent with the public health
and water quality goals and requirements of this
Act.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbc485661389a40bc977e8fbb5c1a7bd6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>105.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transferability of funds</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 603 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1383) (as amended by section 103(a)(1)) is amended by
adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA7C1636DF46D429FB89C0250AF726553" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5124d7150f5a417bb765c34bb4e96710"><enum>(k)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfer of funds</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID749a6d1acd3a43d384d54e0dce34fbcf"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Governor of a State may—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID82f239e99ebf4905b09299a07373bdff"><enum>(A)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id7886095475B14CE481F56293ECF1404B"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reserve not more than 33 percent of a
capitalization grant made under this title; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id74D877B17A6D4720BFE6AF3CB8B09FAF" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">add the funds reserved to any funds
provided to the State under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42
U.S.C. 300j–12); and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf6b86f060bb14e52bbc2af60dc52b192"><enum>(B)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id17F584DDF4AE458C92E34FA4C3D8B254"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reserve for any year an amount that does
not exceed the amount that may be reserved under subparagraph (A) for that year
from capitalization grants made under section 1452 of that Act (42 U.S.C.
300j–12); and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC88C956788F1486FB0C8537FFFDC3703" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">add the reserved funds to any funds
provided to the State under this title.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfac179a605c348aaabcefeb59716104d"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State match</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds reserved under this subsection shall
not be considered to be a State contribution for a capitalization grant
required under this title or section 1452(b) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42
U.S.C.
300j–12(b)).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa7156d963f964c58bd5d7947226360d6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>106.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Noncompliance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 603 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1383) (as amended by section 105) is amended by adding
at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8D46DE09147C4F38A4A991C896EF4F12" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5c8ae0132765421ea45bc34e254a4160"><enum>(l)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Noncompliance</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID08807cf4f5924b50b9310935bd72061f"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in paragraph (2), no
assistance (other than assistance that is to be used by a treatment works
solely for planning, design, or security purposes) shall be provided under this
title to the owner or operator of a treatment works that has been in
significant noncompliance with any requirement of this Act for any of the 4
quarters during the preceding 8 quarters, unless the treatment works is in
compliance with an enforceable administrative order to effect compliance with
the requirement.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc9baedfa0ed8423dbbc3fd6adc19cd26"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exception</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An owner or operator of a treatment works
that is determined under paragraph (1) to be in significant noncompliance with
a requirement described in that paragraph may receive assistance under this
title if the Administrator and the State providing the assistance determine
that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID90e7d5d23654411e82f2c27d6b91a456"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the entity conducting the enforcement
action on which the determination of significant noncompliance is based has
determined that the use of assistance would enable the owner or operator of the
treatment works to take corrective action toward resolving the violations;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe07122bbc97a4c77b87964ea75c4d64f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the entity conducting the enforcement
action on which the determination of significant noncompliance is based has
determined that the assistance would be used by the owner or operator of the
treatment works in order to assist owners and operators in making progress
towards
compliance.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8b5d17c6c6c5409bbd499d64b5e0fb2b" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>107.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Negotiation of contracts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 603 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1383) (as amended by section 106) is amended by adding
at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3A942ECD4AD141E59307209A9FADEF9B" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id81FE039FE9784C9390164B7D27B14F73"><enum>(m)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Negotiation of contracts</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4B5E95FE6652425A82AA8D975CAEC986"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A contract to be carried out using funds
directly made available by a capitalization grant under this section for
program management, construction management, feasibility studies, preliminary
engineering, design, engineering, surveying, mapping, or architectural or
related services shall be negotiated in the same manner as—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBD5ED4F535F84596A406656E2CBCD63D"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a contract for architectural and
engineering services is negotiated under chapter 11 of title 40, United States
Code; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6D3D93F6924A4A8196EB03BBB1C39063"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an equivalent State qualifications-based
requirement (as determined by the Governor of the State).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5DCAD10682A34F1A9DC9DDB8EFA57568"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exemption for small
communities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (1)
shall not apply to a contract described in that paragraph for program
management, construction management, feasibility studies, preliminary
engineering, design, engineering, surveying, mapping, or architectural or
related services for a community of 10,000 or fewer
individuals.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDdd65ee1bb7d744bcb5caeddd40b8cd2c" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>108.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Allotment of funds</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 604 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1384) is amended by striking subsection (b) and
inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id29CE609B623F4377B0B35A5F89DDC404" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID27f11977d6ca498fba516c99a39c1302"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reservation of funds</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID456a6ae11a004526a955f46315809bc0"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Planning</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State may reserve for each fiscal year
the greater of 2 percent of the sums allotted to the State under this section
for the fiscal year, or $100,000, to carry out planning under sections 205(j)
and 303(e).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID09aa5dbd724e40d4a61268ce021c6388"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Indian tribes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the total amount of funds made available
under paragraph (1), 1.5 percent shall be allocated to Indian tribes (as
defined in section
518(h)).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2223d61315bb4e36b1c372c6cc484d22" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>109.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Federal
Water Pollution Control Act is amended by striking section 607 (33 U.S.C. 1387)
and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB460858CED764C98B91AEA33BAD58198" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc519782acb5c47fdb07956e485811d6f" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>607.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID929e0e1fcb754d6f800de0f43d6f6e80"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In General</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are authorized to be appropriated to
carry out this title—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID050f43c8ed4e4e2483dc84b532a6dfb4"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$3,200,000,000 for each of fiscal years
2008 and 2009;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID852481129b7c4296a197dd679a2564d4"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$3,600,000,000 for fiscal year 2010;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7844509274004a2eb8adb86f02ce4689"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$4,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2011;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7f405af51cb44e7d8d53457b9717ec4c"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$6,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2012.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDab8cd326403e46b3aa0b1354f15dfc2d"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Availability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts made available under this section
shall remain available until expended.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID566ba85b61f44120bf213c6c541e8be0"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reservation for needs surveys</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amount made available under
subsection (a) to carry out this title for a fiscal year, the Administrator may
reserve not more than $1,000,000 for the fiscal year, to remain available until
expended, to pay the costs of conducting needs surveys under section
516(b)(1)(B).</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID442803f4a86c4bddb177e4752b6008b1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>110.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sewer overflow control grants</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0d8938d2326d47a6b6fd60b0b46df7ac"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sewer Overflow Control Grants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf2892981792e46509f1b742f0ef8f963"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking
<quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">In
general</header-in-text></quote> and all that follows through <quote>(2)
subject to subsection (g), the Administrator may</quote> and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD257D0FA0A0A4E8BA4D58E710EC4C657" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8AB9A04278344C888513630B9D4C5BD3"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5C53C016F3F544E295160F8CA0870948"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make grants to States for the purpose of
providing grants to a municipality or municipal entity for planning, design,
and construction of treatment works to intercept, transport, control, or treat
municipal combined sewer overflows and sanitary sewer overflows; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id003C1052BF8A417FB0ED6DE6F108855D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subject to subsection
(g),</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID497b8b43623a41188776a91dd8745dcd"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsections (e) through (g) and
inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB3511761A8474B62802301FF52169A8A" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd80d0ea1081b4e0c98b96d3bc15e5e61"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative requirements</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23150D325B2F40F7A21596F7C3E3EE8C"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (2), a project that
receives grant assistance under subsection (a) shall be carried out subject to
the same requirements as a project that receives assistance from a State water
pollution control revolving fund established pursuant to title VI.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE7612EB8BA954A86BD655CD7574A1D22"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Determination of Governor</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The requirement described in paragraph (1)
shall not apply to a project that receives grant assistance under subsection
(a) to the extent that the Governor of the State in which the project is
located determines that a requirement described in title VI is inconsistent
with the purposes of this section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9a0208b0ff7a4bdc8fd603a2285f4d24"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, to remain available
until expended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb1e6f4c470454988b853e8afa970d3e1"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$375,000,000 for fiscal year 2008;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfffa93548fea4ee49027b7b005c96658"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$375,000,000 for fiscal year 2009;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd9fdd86f26d94d2694a809701937a84f"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$375,000,000 for fiscal year 2010;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa46f5126e48b46778baf0f3f00ac2246"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$375,000,000 for fiscal year 2011;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfdab4d7112354edf8157aeaa4728443f"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$500,000,000 for fiscal year 2012.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id908F4474518649A79D174DCCEC1F1DB6"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Allocation of Funds</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6d6ff457fb5e403595781a1b2590de3c"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fiscal year 2008 and 2009</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For each of fiscal years 2008 and 2009,
subject to subsection (h), the Administrator shall use the amounts made
available to carry out this section to provide grants to municipalities and
municipal entities under subsection (a)(2)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52E5B4E884354FF19DA830B50E6AACF1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in accordance with the priority criteria
described in subsection (b); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4A6DB7A7DFAF4EB8A7FF70812FB5F477"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with additional priority given to proposed
projects that involve the use of—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE9E4079327F7483E8EB175817F682767"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">nonstructural, low-impact
development;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7CD4C76EEFAC42BBA4C82B71B8EF9AA1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water conservation, efficiency, or reuse;
or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id956761017A0848D6929C36D7DB6AD152"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">other decentralized stormwater or
wastewater approaches to minimize flows into the sewer systems.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID082fd9a2287c4017a4cc36b812463e4b"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fiscal year 2010 and
thereafter</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year
2010 and each fiscal year thereafter, subject to subsection (h), the
Administrator shall use the amounts made available to carry out this section to
provide grants to States under subsection (a)(1) in accordance with a formula
that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID64067679f2474dff96ee85c38426e4eb"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall be established by the Administrator,
after providing notice and an opportunity for public comment; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6694f2fbbfe74588a2039dcaab3c1d0f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">allocates to each State a proportional
share of the amounts based on the total needs of the State for municipal
combined sewer overflow controls and sanitary sewer overflow controls, as
identified in the most recent survey—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID69f6b3858cf74d51b988bea926fb8837"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conducted under section 210; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID49bfd9b21bae4473a327602ba9aac4ac"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">included in a report required under section
516(b)(1)(B).</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID136e3746bd92457ca17f9a366020e432"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 221(i) of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301(i)) is amended in the first sentence by
striking <quote>2003</quote> and inserting <quote>2010</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id58D75521451149F797E7FB57C3829067" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>111.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Capitalization grant
agreements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 602(b) of
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1382(b)) is amended by
striking paragraph (6) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2300377F371E452E98FF1CEEF140D5A5" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb47b50e40df34fe2a4ec8fac7bf9b8a1"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">treatment works eligible under section
603(c) that are constructed, in whole or in part, using funds made available by
a State loan fund under this title shall meet the requirements of section 513
in the same manner as treatment works constructed using assistance provided
under title
II;</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID03822dfede984c0f8f8087e809986b6f" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>112.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Critical water infrastructure
projects</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDdad94aea304a4606989d792151616fad"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency (referred to in this section as the
<term>Administrator</term>) shall establish a program under which grants are
provided to eligible entities for use in carrying out projects and activities
the primary purpose of which is watershed restoration through the protection or
improvement of water quality.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5448ebdb38fa4df5943462fa7d50a9d6"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Project selection</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4d543c3f715141a794d40883ba7d67ea"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may provide funds under
this section to an eligible entity to carry out an eligible project described
in paragraph (3).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf1dad441e8664bcb833fa027a00622da"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Equitable distribution</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall ensure an equitable
distribution of projects under this section, taking into account cost and
number of requests for each category listed in paragraph (3).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5c4cd4ad1c21407db9340e40b543ba05"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible projects</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A project that is eligible to be carried
out using funds provided under this section may include projects that are
included in the intended use plan of the State developed in accordance with
section 606(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C.
1386(c)).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb261e3f44b3942b5a40ba5d3cbc63c71"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Local Participation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In prioritizing projects for implementation
under this section, the Administrator shall consult with, and consider the
priorities of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4e078b7cb6c5472e922c5653592802f5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">affected State and local governments;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8694e5048f974442a29621793ebd94c4"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">public and private entities that are active
in watershed planning and restoration.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID11f8a50b05ab4ed492a61445c83a0b2d"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cost Sharing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before carrying out any project under this
section, the Administrator shall enter into an agreement with 1 or more
non-Federal interests that shall require the non-Federal interests—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe6b400bec46647db90cd08484dbb2257"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to pay 45 percent of the total costs of the
project, which may include services, materials, supplies, or other in-kind
contributions;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb3a0db31b6cc49c889e94168ea0f81ad"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide any land, easements,
rights-of-way, and relocations necessary to carry out the project; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID58a2b9a393124a3b9351df296a07bda0"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to pay 100 percent of any operation,
maintenance, repair, replacement, and rehabilitation costs associated with the
project.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd637b9e4048d4369b98b8f0d2632aacc"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Waiver</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may waive the requirement
to pay the non-Federal share of the cost of carrying out an eligible activity
using funds from a grant provided under this section if the Administrator
determines that an eligible entity is unable to pay, or would experience
significant financial hardship if required to pay, the non-Federal
share.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd328fa14375b477a92112bb7d6de7921"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
Appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $50,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2008 through 2012.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Safe drinking water infrastructure</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID046bdc480a6241bc815450de7a098185" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Contaminant prevention, detection, and
response</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1434 of the
Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300i–3) is amended by striking subsection
(b) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95F521175AB74A0FAECADEE513CA9C9B" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7687d484d03b436d89a8eebc5db0faeb"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of
enactment of the Water Infrastructure Financing Act, the Administrator shall
submit to Congress a report that includes—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf0b6d637fecb4bb1897433cbeca3896c"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the progress made as of
that date in implementing this section; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0bfa9dbe7c09492ba6cc227a6925b8f8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of any impediments to that
implementation identified by the Administrator, including—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5faa110117054f8799a7f61fd2c7af03"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">difficulty in coordinating the
implementation with other Federal, State, or local agencies or
organizations;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID77fc7ec879ae4c4abe321c4f53c191fa"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">insufficient funding for effective
implementation;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6448131735d046b88b69b9cf4a9f871d"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a lack of authorization to take certain
actions (including the authority to hire necessary personnel) required to carry
out the implementation; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2a9cb5dab27d405a9770238581c981b6"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">technological impediments to developing the
methods, means, and equipment specified in subsection (a)(1).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe5d6be809ee54401a9adcf791ccd4279"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Implementation Plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall develop and carry
out an implementation plan for this section consistent with actions taken to
date and incorporating the results of the report under subsection (b).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID878a3e2815e5422497dc40456e9f6899"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to
carry out this section $7,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through
2012.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF02D67DAA4964CD38278CB3B34069562" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Drinking water technical assistance for
communities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1442(e) of
the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–1(e)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID353803ebdde4463d968781dce9499667"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by striking
<quote>The Administrator may provide</quote> and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA16C09ED9E774EFD91964917E55EF924" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9ecf8c16f2124f0eaddbfd1a9b3c27c4"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public water systems</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may
provide</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1CCB6DFA101E4D879B8B21F28F7A6A39"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence, by striking
<quote>Such assistance</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA09DFDB7AC53471CADD9197F7BB0A792" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id01AA4D51400D411BB197134A2FDB9C5A"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Types of assistance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Such
assistance</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3DBCE00AAE8B4F4BB9335AB472A40301"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the third sentence, by striking
<quote>The Administrator shall ensure</quote> and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8C461A4AFAF04E34BA882FD216613B75" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0DA27648EF194C3083D9A873902C47C6"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Availability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall
ensure</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7ECBE83F1E524231A487FC6C6052BF82"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the fourth sentence, by striking
<quote>Each nonprofit</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4D04259A49804F07A8B7F7A00A3CF51B" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7AD0F1F058454FFCB88DBB5AD1FDD483"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirement applicable to nonprofit
organizations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each
nonprofit</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9f9fcbd1b8f84913975baeba6b70da13"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the fifth sentence and all that
follows and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7D4D67DD1E8E416A9C79112FADF63A55" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID71844b8e106e44edbd8ce7f2dc6f945f"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In providing grants under this section, the
Administrator shall give priority to small systems organizations that, as
determined by the Administrator, are qualified and will be the most effective
at assisting those small systems that have the greatest need (or a majority of
need) in the States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8703FB43F7574A589D1F91E48B1C30BD"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Wells and well systems</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id708EF96DF86A4D7285C7E012876700A0"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall provide grants to
nonprofit organizations to provide technical assistance to communities and
individuals regarding the design, operation, construction, and maintenance of
household wells and small shared well-systems that provide drinking
water.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCDBC800969AC442FBB4E1366789B7825"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Form of assistance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical assistance referred to in
subparagraph (A) may include—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBF949013F5184B89826F8086F52B944C"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">training and education;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD552DD0162A348218C33F4574135DF92"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">operation of a hotline; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3D941E3FF92B4A8684B4E1084F4359E7"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the conduct of other activities relating to
the design and construction of household, shared, and small water well systems
in rural areas.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4856AC85C01F4DD7989379E3DCD0FB2F"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (5), in providing
grants under this section, the Administrator shall give priority to applicants
that, as determined by the Administrator—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id33BD5C90F4D446199A31362711DBCD4F"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are qualified; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFAFA3209528C4CC5AB8FCC6FA42E8B78"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">have demonstrated experience in providing
similar technical assistance and in developing similar projects.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0607EF027AF1409AA39AB5EE24E0882E"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this paragraph $7,500,000 for each
of fiscal years 2009 through 2013.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id97DFE72A60B94E178D7ABA9D064D5AB9"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funding</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA2E1EF744606421BA9E87EE967CF676C"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is
authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator to carry out this subsection
(other than paragraph (6)) $35,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through
2013.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCDF8F081261348EC9FD1EAC68B5230EB"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Lobbying expenses</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No portion of any State loan fund
established under section 1452 and no portion of any funds made available under
this subsection may be used for lobbying expenses.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3EE4D09B3A9845D4A162285E7D71B4B8"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Indian Tribes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the total amount made available under
this section for each fiscal year, 3 percent shall be used for technical
assistance to public water systems owned or operated by Indian
Tribes.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idACEFA1733D1C47948673483CA08C81A9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Preservation of employee labor
standards</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1450 of the
Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–9) is amended by striking subsection
(e) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0C164C7EC2C64FDF8F6549DE3C661C31" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb13c468250e240538158864c9ea6ac27"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Labor standards</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4ad615c9fc0f41faaf0a3458a12d370a"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall take such action as
the Administrator determines to be necessary to ensure that each laborer and
mechanic employed by a contractor or subcontractor of a construction project
financed, in whole or in part, by a grant, loan, loan guarantee, refinancing,
or any other form of financial assistance provided under this Act (including
assistance provided by a State loan fund established under section 1452) is
paid wages at a rate of not less than the wages prevailing for the same type of
work on similar construction in the immediate locality, as determined by the
Secretary of Labor in accordance with subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40,
United States Code.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDE91430FE0824C2CB2062B54852298D3"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authority of Secretary of
Labor</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to the
labor standards specified in this subsection, the Secretary of Labor shall have
the authority and functions established in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of
1950 (5 U.S.C. App.) and section 3145 of title 40, United States
Code.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID114d517118494dcdaa2f36ca31f3b7a8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>204.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Preconstruction work</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1452(a)(2) of the Safe Drinking
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(a)(2)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7736279622D64AF7BB6372439FDD9282"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by designating the first, second, third,
fourth, and fifth sentences as subparagraphs (A), (B), (D), (E), and (F),
respectively;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEBE2DDC0AA0E4EEF97F49028BEAEDE5D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B) (as designated by
paragraph (1))—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbb3ac41e146049a7b05f407c62eea6e6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>(not</quote> and
inserting <quote>(including expenditures for planning, design, and associated
preconstruction activities, including activities relating to the siting of the
facility, but not</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID313789d70a7f4028a3cfdf0a7fe2a699"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting before the period at the end
the following: <quote>or to replace or rehabilitate aging treatment, storage
(including reservoirs), or distribution facilities of public water systems or
provide for capital projects to upgrade the security of public water
systems</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD24DE9F77AA04CB4B215E409EA76C293"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (B) (as
designated by paragraph (1)) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC9EE39DA560E485EBDAFE913B8C4BDEE" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id965F6046E8704A46B8180C8A91DE6AF2"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sale of bonds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds may also be used by a public water
system to increase security at the public water system (excluding any
expenditure for operations and maintenance), or as a source of revenue
(restricted solely to interest earnings of the applicable State loan fund) or
security for payment of the principal and interest on revenue or general
obligation bonds issued by the State to provide matching funds under subsection
(e), if the proceeds of the sale of the bonds will be deposited in the State
loan
fund.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3f26a81e249f4aa58fd79f645b5fd741" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>205.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority system requirements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1452(b)(3) of the Safe Drinking
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(b)(3)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe0a1d97f77b047dcb0f1be0dba4a0caf"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraph (B) as
subparagraph (D);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa5e6d5e773c94c15a390acc56a7bd58d"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting
the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5E843AB4E10F44E18D69AA621EC6C266" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc29f5c8334504e1f9c43ba34bfe60594"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of restructuring</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this paragraph, the term
<term>restructuring</term> means changes in operations (including ownership,
cooperative partnerships, asset management, consolidation, and alternative
water supply).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0f5d732c62f8401e8731c8565ca44f62"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority system</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An intended use plan shall provide, to the
maximum extent practicable, that priority for the use of funds be given to
projects that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd6220097fe524a2ca7143f3c5cf8b7f3"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">address the most serious risk to human
health;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID15f09ed5b4e4435fba00c8095aa0d7b1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are necessary to ensure compliance with
this title (including requirements for filtration); and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc0d9f7d8f3294fc19667cb9b441a4bbb"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assist systems most in need on a
per-household basis according to State affordability criteria.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4df4532345e54462ba61da3e650d909e"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Weight given to applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">After determining project priorities under
subparagraph (B), an intended use plan shall further provide that the State
shall give greater weight to an application for assistance by a community water
system if the application includes such information as the State determines to
be necessary, including—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb8b7a87c8a894375aa5c87052cd89bac"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an inventory of assets, including a
description of the condition of the assets;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe0e96a5a39bb450e9767270388afbaa6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a schedule for replacement of
assets;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcc6805c4be324a4b8c62e2a5f0b65c88"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a financing plan that factors in all
life-cycle costs indicating sources of revenue from ratepayers, grants, bonds,
other loans, and other sources to meet the costs;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID21409ba18eb946ae90c8525f9d29dc22"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a review of options for restructuring the
public water system;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID97ae29d1f8b545e4bd8987b47908aedf"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">demonstration of consistency with State,
regional, and municipal watershed plans; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID89bafee011cf4f6997cb115d998c94da"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a water conservation plan consistent with
guidelines developed for those plans by the Administrator under section
1455(a).</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf6f5c3f6312e48f1a051b2b773f4400e"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (D) (as redesignated by
paragraph (1)), by striking <quote>periodically</quote> and inserting <quote>at
least biennially</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID932d0917b65447caab2d56b40fd4a4d8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>206.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Affordability</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1452(d)(3) of the Safe Drinking
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(d)(3)) is amended in the first sentence by
inserting <quote>, or portion of a service area,</quote> after <quote>service
area</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa36f3b761c25406ea0f1249637b18095" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>207.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Safe drinking water revolving loan
funds</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1452(g) of the
Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(g)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID42e70441882549f6babef051f3c0bec1"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">paragraph (2)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID42a03c498f5e443a9549d546b34f6298"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by striking
<quote>4</quote> and inserting <quote>6</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID026c600acdf54bdd8c8aae367355626f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>1419,</quote> and all
that follows through <quote>1993.</quote> and inserting <quote>1419.</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDdf96ed58e80f448483c019c74c9a737d"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4371098AC6C74D0CAC101FE965980FF0" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID979896ac7e9642178422d4ac694933c5"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfer of funds</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDad437ae4b75e4deb951c67e01aefa570"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Governor of a State may—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb9213b09e8a9469ba9dd5715739c116d"><enum>(i)</enum><subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idFDC1470FA994426C9A61C322FD8E4E3D"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reserve not more than 33 percent of a
capitalization grant made under this section; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF7499A12944849A7BCBCA6541079FE0B" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">add the funds reserved to any funds
provided to the State under section 601 of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act (33 U.S.C. 1381); and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd686df71b49644e7827dc9c0b01bc458"><enum>(ii)</enum><subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id13A76DBCA2674F92820B7D885DB47E60"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reserve for any fiscal year an amount that
does not exceed the amount that may be reserved under clause (i)(I) for that
year from capitalization grants made under section 601 of that Act (33 U.S.C.
1381); and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id28612C72817E4CB88300C43C4752ACD4" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">add the reserved funds to any funds
provided to the State under this section.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf019be61e19546609b5c98bce37ac304"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State match</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds reserved under this paragraph shall
not be considered to be a State match of a capitalization grant required under
this section or section 602(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
U.S.C.
1382(b)).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf191baae719c4681885d3742f0c909d8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>208.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other authorized activities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1452(k)(2)(D) of the Safe Drinking
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(k)(2)(D)) is amended by inserting before the
period at the end the following: <quote>(including implementation of source
water protection plans)</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6e90ff003a244deaa59d20ab66a38396" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>209.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1452 of
the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12) is amended by striking
subsection (m) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id633BC89C8A1F47FB83F47A175D244438" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0f5af86eb5ab4f5f94a4513c3063eeb4"><enum>(m)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID66bbafed29994d3dbace2532574f54b7"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are authorized to be appropriated to
carry out this section—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDeeed0db46b254e1ea361e5c9a5411942"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$1,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2008;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd174d3e3a03d4e0796d7e54ecb5bcfbc"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$2,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years
2009 and 2010;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID016e8086e24a4f948878ce4b7be11936"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$3,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2011;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID65fd519ef7bd42e18517cdef74af18fe"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$6,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2012.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID710986e2619b45fda5285a5823fbe944"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Availability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts made available under this
subsection shall remain available until expended.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID31c0b02d1ab64a51a0af2aea891aadea"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reservation for needs surveys</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amount made available under
paragraph (1) to carry out this section for a fiscal year, the Administrator
may reserve not more than $1,000,000 per year to pay the costs of conducting
needs surveys under subsection
(h).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8a2094f346694140ae6024a5f5d898dd" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>210.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Negotiation of contracts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act
(42 U.S.C. 300j–12) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6B9F6E1417AF4B3AAED5047140256D51" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC1DACCF3DE974F918D8A187AEB6815BC"><enum>(s)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Negotiation of contracts</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id11A4ACA73CFF4D57A6048F35D747DAC5"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A contract to be carried out using funds
directly made available by a capitalization grant under this section for
program management, construction management, feasibility studies, preliminary
engineering, design, engineering, surveying, mapping, or architectural or
related services shall be negotiated in the same manner as—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC977F74E8BBD4870B5CD619FF8B21D3D"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a contract for architectural and
engineering services is negotiated under chapter 11 of title 40, United States
Code; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE2EE3F16D61B45B38212F31B4F1AFFF8"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an equivalent State qualifications-based
requirement (as determined by the Governor of the State).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCDD41886971F4D93800565500CCFB3F0"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exemption for small
communities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (1)
shall not apply to a contract described in that paragraph for program
management, construction management, feasibility studies, preliminary
engineering, design, engineering, surveying, mapping, or architectural or
related services for a community of 10,000 or fewer
individuals.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID839a4ee54498456e8437bb28f81bf975" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>211.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Critical drinking water infrastructure
projects</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID20aff68e80a04b05a67ff399b375f913"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
shall establish a program under which grants are provided to eligible entities
for use in carrying out projects and activities the primary purpose of which is
to assist community water systems in meeting the requirements of the Safe
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9a90d471ced14611abe4c2c718e0886f"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Project selection</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A project that is eligible to be carried
out using funds provided under this section may include projects that—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6f6d5fc131304be489622f31e3f530a9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develop alternative water sources;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID05c9c155f7ee4dd49788647a0d372f43"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide assistance to small systems;
or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID09a67ff376be4f71a84c07d91bb13d4a"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assist a community water system—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID87453dad94394a4c9b0e9beb202c9fb6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to comply with a national primary drinking
water regulation; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc857d02d22d3497bb090171c89b26570"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to mitigate groundwater contamination,
including saltwater intrusion.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf7765366f0024c10a7a8192fc4b12dff"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An entity eligible to receive a grant under
this section is—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe608564c3ad340adb663036b6ff8f880"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a community water system as defined in
section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f); or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd1942bd114c64155ac7142f8ca10dbe1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a system that is located in an area
governed by an Indian Tribe (as defined in section 1401 of the Safe Drinking
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f));</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc78c5d89ed864bd0bd002e3f06038656"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In prioritizing projects for implementation
under this section, the Administrator shall give priority to community water
systems that—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID36aa82c1ff344e69aec189788ef5b5f6"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">serve a community that, under affordability
criteria established by the State under section 1452(d)(3) of the Safe Drinking
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12), is determined by the State to be—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5d1ca328af0e46798b7aead3af3684da"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a disadvantaged community; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc028331e7cdd4fc891a5e4d917932a37"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a community that may become a disadvantaged
community as a result of carrying out an eligible activity; or</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3a505d7469af4468a3183be026c0c87e"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">serve a community with a population of less
than 10,000 individuals.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID315f3c6bc92246f0911eb230c957f9b0"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Local participation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In prioritizing projects for implementation
under this section, the Administrator shall consult with, and consider the
priorities of, affected States, Indian Tribes, and local governments.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf3f490512b08403eb769dac0e5f6b0fc"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cost-sharing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before carrying out any project under this
section, the Administrator shall enter into a binding agreement with 1 or more
non-Federal interests that shall require the non-Federal interests—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDea232590e2154344bf99c02a5cacf281"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to pay 45 percent of the total costs of the
project, which may include services, materials, supplies, or other in-kind
contributions;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7e87c3d2bbb343a0b85ec532160765b7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide any land, easements,
rights-of-way, and relocations necessary to carry out the project; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5469226bf7f645c2a42951c7780685a3"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to pay 100 percent of any operation,
maintenance, repair, replacement, and rehabilitation costs associated with the
project.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID598831a71b84422a86c932f9a294c23c"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Waiver</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may waive the requirement
to pay the non-Federal share of the cost of carrying out an eligible activity
using funds from a grant provided under this section if the Administrator
determines that an eligible entity is unable to pay, or would experience
significant financial hardship if required to pay, the non-Federal
share.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID38363c0047164940a07925e7ba404311"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $300,000,000 for each
of fiscal years 2008 through 2012.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID289aeb8fdcb041afa42b464904fdffa7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>212.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">District of Columbia lead service line
replacement</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc550233a59d9474e8f2d5f121788b8f5"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Service line replacement</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF07A83880FF04712B15C7AED5D99BD8B"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Galvanic effects</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out lead service line
replacement in the District of Columbia, the galvanic effects of replacement of
the service lines shall be addressed prior to replacement.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id93B1D3A4FEE945B5840B6DA4BFB34F11"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out lead service line replacement in the
District of Columbia $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through
2012.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID53f227942d9c4426b2d2f91631b6ca6d"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Lead service line replacement assistance
fund</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDED9E0B94BBC460DB4F2A88B07E247D6"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of low-income</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection, the term
<term>low-income</term> shall be defined by the District of Columbia.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID413d593a20b84d858ae34c3e044d7924"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the funds provided under subsection
(a)(2), not more than $2,000,000 per year may be allocated for water service
line replacement grants to provide assistance to low-income residents to
replace the privately-owned portion of lead service lines.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5b921f62b5454a6b9e873cf3541a6355"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An individual grant provided under
paragraph (2) shall not exceed $5,000.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Miscellaneous</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7328abaaf6264d18928ad4389431c579" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb4b84a3b21ea4ce396917ae1eadfc85e"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Academy</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Academy</term> means the
National Academy of Sciences.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2b00ebd545db4b2aa18c50c27d7b1c18"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrator</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Administrator</term> means
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE96A151CEDE04A0F964703306047CFD9"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Secretary</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Secretary</term> means the
Secretary of Agriculture.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc2356c6dcbdd418fa12af7ec0aab150a" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>302.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program for water quality enhancement and
management</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6bc53a3a5dc545d6b41219fe74086786"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Initial grant program</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf1f3d03f69c345c498479627761f8f5d"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall establish a program to award
grants and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with research
institutions, institutions of higher education, and other appropriate entities
(including consortia of such institutions and entities), through a competitive
process, for research on and development of the use of innovative and
alternative technologies to improve water quality or drinking water
supply.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9b774cf59f7144c2a6bf8f0c5cff9ae4"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Types of projects</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out this subsection, the
Administrator may select projects relating to such matters as innovative or
alternative technologies, approaches, practices, or methods—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5c28f71f7deb445dbc317905013842e3"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to increase the effectiveness and
efficiency of water and wastewater infrastructure through the use of integrated
water resource management;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc4d6c17478e145fb8b73fe65d6078429"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to increase the effectiveness and
efficiency of public water systems, including—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID698b3878a96044b9a7cfdbf619310909"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">source water protection;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID91742fc8026f4305933bf54fda88f11a"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water use reduction;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9e865e9dff13423c828e2abea2753bc8"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water reuse;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa0422bb0482541aa97e3e4162c6a6785"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water treatment;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7a4a5d592ac74e93aca1883a02cd2338"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water distribution and wastewater
collection systems; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7da8a4ecf7344b099a717ed1b2eebd8f"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water security;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf8d1b6cc937d4917a5125a9a46fffa2d"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to encourage the use of innovative or
alternative technologies or approaches relating to water supply or
availability;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa7a355e534784f6a99fce05029420df9"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to increase the effectiveness and
efficiency of new and existing treatment works, including—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID39c5d32268b34381b65dd1192ab7f89d"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">methods of collecting, treating,
dispersing, reusing, reclaiming, and recycling wastewater;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID20987554fab04990814c4906cd0998b6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">system design;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID098bcc1e211644eb85c86555bef0a8b2"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">nonstructural alternatives;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfd43815099b9416d8924b9c7ee15a1fb"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">decentralized approaches;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3ab92fe33982416c920c48879730264e"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">stormwater and wastewater reuse;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID15b386d9918841a6a643627ee5811d83"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water efficiency and conservation;
and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5e256ffef6ba423badffa2488a4902cd"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">wastewater security;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID13e0fc8739b0417cb28e1cf612a26a48"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to increase the effectiveness and
efficiency of municipal separate storm sewer systems and combined sewer
systems, including through the use of soil and vegetation or other permeable
materials;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf6ec65bf35424b5fb5fb5204c86634b0"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to promote new water treatment technologies
and management approaches, including commercialization and dissemination
strategies for adoption of innovative water, wastewater, and stormwater
technologies and management approaches or low-impact development technologies
in the homebuilding industry; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID90f476ff8ea64071893f370f73ae18a5"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to maintain a clearinghouse of technologies
and management approaches developed under this subsection and subsection (b) at
a research consortium or institute.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6f8f25e55fb544c0bbcc59410b49a6c7"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date on
which the program is established under paragraph (1), the Administrator shall
publish a report that details the findings of each recipient of a grant under
the program with respect to the identification of any potential new
technologies or management approaches developed in accordance with this
section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc82eb91f52674274bbdcb06ad8cef493"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nationwide grant program</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbfa8d086fe604ecfa0adfe3c1231a0e0"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of municipality</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection, the term
<term>municipality</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id41E0AD223B3B468EB1B154073F1FC6D6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a city, town, borough, county, parish,
district, association, or other public body created by or pursuant to State
law; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6C691E60CA614A90A39773AE1FB4BA86"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an Indian tribe (as defined in section 4 of
the <act-name parsable-cite="ISDA">Indian Self-Determination and Education
Assistance Act</act-name> (25 U.S.C. 450b)).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC44422112DA946E7BF479871E2117A3E"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of
publication of the report under subsection (a)(3), the Administrator shall
establish a nationwide demonstration grant program—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDefe86006fc4d4066a2c3294665d1e8a6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to promote innovations in technology and
alternative approaches to water quality management or water supply developed
under subsection (a); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID89ed18e637e64ed4842db6d4278fdcff"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to reduce costs to municipalities incurred
in complying with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et
seq.) and the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.) through the
approaches and technologies developed under subsection (a).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd8cfa13576814767ada371d97d1a9420"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Scope</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The demonstration grant program shall
consist of up to 10 projects each year, to be carried out in municipalities
selected by the Administrator under paragraph (4).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbbd3c1ef88fc4793885dcf45362f522d"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Selection of municipalities</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb85ef5971e494e41ba7258dad52f4a53"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A municipality that seeks to participate in
the demonstration grant program established under paragraph (2) shall submit to
the Administrator a plan that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbaa3b8dcb6564751bcb46d2bd304ab17"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is developed in coordination with—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0aefdc4ba0e548e9b36840e943865fc5"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the agencies of the State having
jurisdiction over water quality and water supply matters; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4a7867dace394815b1626f54f766df3b"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">interested stakeholders, including
institutions of higher education and related research institutions;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDaeaaf69c0afc46e0bc3119f3929efdc7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">describes water impacts specific to urban
or rural areas;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbe0e4c4e871f4e2493177b1590922a31"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes a strategy under which the
municipality, through participation in the demonstration grant program, could
effectively—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID77d630564cb045cb9cfe4d6f58d33650"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">address water quality or water supply
problems; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa2a5f73480f94a80b6245aa1ef174387"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">achieve the water quality goals
that—</text>
<item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID364e8e1c49f1490b90ad00ff4fd2bcd8"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">could be achieved using more traditional
methods; and</text>
</item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7d5321b942d8401097e622df4ad7cdf5"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are required under the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) or the Safe Drinking Water Act
(42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.); and</text>
</item></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID43a1bdcd02a345bca392c2a6ef4200f3"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes a schedule for achieving the water
quality or water supply goals of the municipality.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe1b1f3875f7d4e6286509c218bce7410"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Categories of projects</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out the demonstration grant
program, the Administrator shall provide grants for projects relating to water
supply or water quality matters described in subsection (a)(2)(A).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa2132a55f24745d89b47930d2c080995"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Responsibilities of
Administrator</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In providing
grants for projects under this subsection, the Administrator shall—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID85075a50dcd449bcbb8c479c45f5eb68"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure, to the maximum extent practicable,
that—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3363060b3d264d8b91aca5ec9841e6d1"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the demonstration grant program under this
subsection includes a variety of projects with respect to—</text>
<item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc9a28c669b5b4f73b9e7cbed24af5ca6"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">geographical distribution;</text>
</item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID70d66fcd9718448699778eace83eacef"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">innovative technologies used for the
projects; and</text>
</item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4738823c4c9842f0a3b9d1dfdd4da23c"><enum>(cc)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">nontraditional approaches (including
low-impact development technologies) used for the projects; and</text>
</item></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID64cc68ea714e47bc870bb693758926d7"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each category of project described in
subparagraph (B) is adequately represented;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0703d265a36f4afa94343738ceca236b"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">give higher priority to projects
that—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb0ed111d30fb4c079370b986757352fe"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">address multiple problems; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDffdf1260c51244699f09e543bcf0dd85"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are regionally applicable;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID977d9f6fc7a447079b51990fc5c4e480"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure, to the maximum extent practicable,
that at least 1 community having a population of 10,000 or fewer individuals
receives a grant for each fiscal year; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc8b13e64fd7b476cb3d523badf30be0d"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure that, for each fiscal year, no
municipality receives more than 25 percent of the total amount of funds made
available for the fiscal year to provide grants under this subsection.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID044848f65e1845b2a534a4909046fa28"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cost sharing</header>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7b1901bcd8bf4ba685f943f5d34bddf6"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in clause (ii), the
non-Federal share of the total cost of a project funded by a grant under this
subsection shall be not less than 20 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd3f4f3bddb734e999d5170395871c180"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Waiver</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may reduce or eliminate
the non-Federal share of the cost of a project for reasons of
affordability.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfad1b2bf5f9a48f9a17804caf5c910a0"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1b44ecf467ca4012a988318b8ce7e99d"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports from grant recipients</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A recipient of a grant under this section
shall submit to the Administrator, on the date of completion of a project of
the recipient and on each of the dates that is 1, 2, and 3 years after that
date, a report that describes the effectiveness of the project.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID87489c2c8182454ab8c69c90f5aeae93"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports to congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of
enactment of this Act, and every 2 years thereafter, the Administrator shall
submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Energy and
Commerce of the House of Representatives a report that describes the status and
results of the grant programs under this section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfba4b2d1792e412693eb44d81b10f830"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Incorporation of Results and
Information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the maximum
extent practicable, the Administrator shall incorporate the results of, and
information obtained from, successful projects under this section into programs
administered by the Administrator.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd14b6f0ef8fe45048ad0d5e464f5d360"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
Appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2008 through 2012.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe7572630dd1a4386921a6041f2d68d18" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>303.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agricultural pollution control technology
grant program</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4a3028028bf04bb09faeb83e52debeb9"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfdcd0fa28e8b42f38b97140ba6b9ccbe"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agricultural commodity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>agricultural
commodity</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8be3eff9291a438ea88095271d7fc2c6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">agricultural, horticultural, viticultural,
and dairy products;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6fc0e734e5874d8cb37af950b301c27b"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">livestock and the products of
livestock;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID353c8e3c3c1b4156baa9ba98e30da0c4"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the products of poultry and bee
raising;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcd4c6b25a7b848c7a0e7b229ed20b464"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the products of forestry; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3bea97cabbdf4b31b7bf1b1634443c99"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">other commodities raised or produced on
agricultural sites, as determined to be appropriate by the Secretary.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb74e462484c34910b39ca88cb2721632"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agricultural project</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>agricultural project</term>
means an agricultural pollution control technology pilot project that, as
determined by the Administrator—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID27e722a466ca4fda91dcc115ae6382ec"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is carried out at an agricultural
site;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID16aecf69b4fb47e98c24333ef33987df"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">achieves demonstrable reductions in water
pollution or water use that meet or exceed those mandated by statutory or
regulatory requirements; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID875f27a5c9e04cf59bc619a9f60e9b45"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">will not substantially adversely affect any
other long-term environmental medium, including air and groundwater
resources.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7a5c339a6f0549d79ea5958bc38540cd"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agricultural site</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>agricultural site</term>
means a farming or ranching operation of a producer.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID51117ab673b84a43a2d1278811222c9a"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Producer</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>producer</term> means any
person who is engaged in the production and sale of an agricultural commodity
in the United States and who owns, or shares the ownership and risk of loss of,
the agricultural commodity.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc2935cb75a804ac18bc4f8be6681a4ac"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Revolving
fund</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>revolving
fund</term> means an agricultural pollution control technology State revolving
fund established by a State using amounts provided under subsection
(b)(1).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5caf424f0d5f4e3395877330ad96e18c"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants for agricultural State revolving
funds</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3a73ccb73fae48f8885aae6ddbf14c18"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As soon as practicable after the date of
enactment of this section, the Administrator shall provide to each eligible
State described in paragraph (2) 1 or more capitalization grants, that
cumulatively equal no more than $1,000,000 per State, for use in establishing,
within an agency of the State having jurisdiction over agriculture or
environmental quality, an agricultural pollution control technology State
revolving fund.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID078509334bfb4d16b9b2673d1cf37741"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible States</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible State referred to in paragraph
(1) is a State that agrees, prior to receipt of a capitalization grant under
paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID01ccbf2a407c4209a07c3e86ed88dea3"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to establish, and deposit the funds from
the grant in, a revolving fund;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9228a80f995f41aba247d351925a4127"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide, at a minimum, a State share in
an amount equal to 20 percent of the capitalization grant;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb881a725488345e49a7ad48ee17369ee"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to use amounts in the revolving fund to
make loans to producers in accordance with subsection (c); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe3b147f7f45547a7b02d6dc476945b66"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to return amounts in the revolving fund if
no loan applications are granted within 2 years of the receipt of the initial
capitalization grant.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID14fbba5c24d24619918d8e341ad11c10"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Loans to producers</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9272f9a3948c40c5ba9f4c8f2a9e9ed4"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A State that establishes a revolving fund
under subsection (b)(2) shall use amounts in the revolving fund to provide
loans to producers for use in designing and constructing agricultural
projects.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4e4b243e11d94b57b27249801b59fa95"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maximum amount of loan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of a loan made to a producer
using funds from a revolving fund shall not exceed $250,000, in the aggregate,
for all agricultural projects serving an agricultural site of the
producer.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6b875b3e577e4b8daad160c0ba8708f3"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conditions on loans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A loan made to a producer using funds from
a revolving fund shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2b2a506390ce4a399fc7577292093714"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">have an interest rate that is not more than
the market interest rate, including an interest-free loan; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID52c4c179697543ccb2d3535d991ee2c2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be repaid to the revolving fund not later
than 20 years after the date on which the loan is made.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5fc61e773cfd4f188050610d0b500ce7"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements for producers</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID36dccfc5e20844858de1b6e5d4072c55"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A producer that seeks to receive a loan
from a revolving fund shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1b3845bba65d4f22839aefff6178e164"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit to the State in which the
agricultural site of the producer is located an application that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9126b867eae446b6a49d13d14ac0cfc9"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">contains such information as the State may
require; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc18e82f10f034ed2a35df403f02eede9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">demonstrates, to the satisfaction of the
State, that each project proposed to be carried out with funds from the loan is
an agricultural project; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb157e65753f44a61aceabae69d74e097"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">agree to expend all funds from a loan in an
expeditious and timely manner, as determined by the State.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9845b73c6c344cf8a44f355b8fc2724b"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maximum percentage of agricultural project
cost</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to subsection
(c)(2), a producer that receives a loan from a revolving fund may use funds
from the loan to pay up to 100 percent of the cost of carrying out an
agricultural project.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID92d08b056e734d28a5669b1a20d44d07"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $50,000,000.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID41edf3fdfe5642c9a6b7f66a7ed1f788" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>304.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State revolving fund review
process</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">As soon as practicable
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbeec2f4cb4d04b5f8d9b1cf212514a44"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consult with States, utilities, nonprofit
organizations, and other Federal agencies providing financial assistance to
identify ways to expedite and improve the application and review process, for
the provision of assistance from—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfdffd4db713d44ff89f98596f7d6d8ce"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the State water pollution control revolving
funds established under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
U.S.C. 1381 et seq.); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3e37516ba1564b209d4e0f0c3e7b61eb"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the State drinking water treatment
revolving loan funds established under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water
Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12);</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf40d4e90fef341c5b29af24429ab62ad"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in carrying out this section, the
Administrator shall consider the needs of small treatment works (as defined by
section 222 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and small public water
systems (as described in section 1433(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42
U.S.C. 300i–2(d));</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2c7dbb898c3b4a58a99e6dc6e7312b46"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">take such administrative action as is
necessary to expedite and improve the process as the Administrator has
authority to take under existing law;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID545727ca786642948a9799937154020f"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">collect information relating to innovative
approaches taken by any State to simplify the application process of the State,
and provide the information to each State; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd9eaf9829bad4ab2bf20afa9e2403282"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit to Congress a report that, based on
the information identified under paragraph (1), contains recommendations for
legislation to facilitate further streamlining and improvement of the
process.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb6cc56658510467486fb8108a4806c5b" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>305.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cost of service study</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID56c64c39da6b45448703a65057d7bd7d"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall enter an arrangement with the
Academy under which the Academy shall complete and provide to the Administrator
the results of a study of the means by which public water systems and treatment
works selected by the Academy in accordance with subsection (c) meet the costs
associated with operations, maintenance, capital replacement, and regulatory
requirements.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID36ea78d890c24d9b9ade68414401270b"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Required elements</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID74b61d10bb6f46d79b126ce282b05604"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Affordability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The study shall, at a minimum—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb7631b755823414eb119cf1590e16a0d"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determine whether the rates at public water
systems and treatment works for communities included in the study were
established using a full-cost pricing model;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe9dcc3f7eabb46ac8ef0de3ddffbc176"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if a full-cost pricing model was not used,
identify any incentive rate systems that have been successful in significantly
reducing—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf72846f39ee74beb8fc28db3fc37da6c"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">per capita water demand;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID07279479f8f34c27bca25bf4a8110ee0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the volume of wastewater flows;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0ae0060c945b4fa588f4e0ee3f64354f"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the volume of stormwater runoff; or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe71afac24d514a96b6e10a871a1fcfcd"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the quantity of pollution generated by
stormwater;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa4ff36247bbc4d37ad1df756f6a220c7"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identify a set of best industry practices
that public water systems and treatment works may use in establishing a rate
structure that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6d33516bc0d04b3686e3265464b90c05"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">adequately addresses the true cost of
services provided to consumers by public water systems and treatment works,
including infrastructure replacement;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID726c17abe19f47ed9119a4926fff0ede"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">encourages water conservation; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID54dc3be5ec5b4e73a0b60e23c74f73cd"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">takes into consideration the needs of
disadvantaged individuals and communities, as identified by the
Administrator;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf334763c03aa44e58c119d97e8d4ef7f"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identify existing standards for
affordability and the manner in which those standards are determined and
defined;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5b7800f0c1c54e9da50b7e8fd6fde70c"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determine the manner in which affordability
varies with respect to communities of different sizes and in different regions;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbf479ab322324461b7305ced13ffe067"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determine the extent to which affordability
affects the decision of a community to increase public water system and
treatment works rates (including the decision relating to the percentage by
which those rates should be increased).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID00fef5094ce845eca5f31f0b37623a55"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Disadvantaged communities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The study shall, at a minimum—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID071154dc3e9c4218a8a1f557a85f84b8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">survey a cross-section of States
representing different sizes, demographics, and geographical regions;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID183e97f6f9234f21bcaf689a39b91e25"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">describe, for each State described in
subparagraph (A), the definition of <quote>disadvantaged community</quote> used
in the State in carrying out projects and activities under the Safe Drinking
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa7bb803cd3fc40e38426ef6b37c3fac5"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">review other means of identifying the
meaning of the term <quote>disadvantaged</quote>, as that term applies to
communities;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf9888909fa804cadbb5b56d35a049e4b"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determine which factors and characteristics
are required for a community to be considered <quote>disadvantaged</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcbd4c3eb7e48441fa059ae7f5eb550e9"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">evaluate the degree to which factors such
as a reduction in the tax base over a period of time, a reduction in
population, the loss of an industrial base, and the existence of areas of
concentrated poverty are taken into account in determining whether a community
is a disadvantaged community.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd93b80dde07b47e0b5259ef99c34574c"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Selection of communities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Academy shall select communities, the
public water system and treatment works rate structures of which are to be
studied under this section, that include a cross-section of communities
representing various populations, income levels, demographics, and geographical
regions.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbf14d0cb056e4e3caf44574925dc756e"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of Results of Study</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On receipt of the results of the study, the
Administrator shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDad2015ba0d544d8795d2f2fe88adf04f"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit the study to Congress;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3df0d62ebd8643bf925a16ef8023fdfc"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit a report that describes the results
of the study; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID640e49ae1ac145239d9d3acd73b07d37"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make the results available to treatment
works and public water systems for use by the publicly owned treatment works
and public water systems, on a voluntary basis, in determining whether 1 or
more new approaches may be implemented at facilities of the publicly owned
treatment works and public water systems.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDacd3fc08971f4f66a1d23a42521c5a48"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $1,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2008 and 2009.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0900f55728da4c28ae75ee72117c111d" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>306.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Water management study</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf1fab32d0f53448b9263fbf52b2adf9a"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As soon as practicable after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall enter into an arrangement with
the Academy under which the Academy shall conduct a study, during the 26-month
period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, of innovative,
effective, and systematic approaches for the management of water supply,
wastewater, and stormwater in urban areas and surrounding communities
(including greenfield developments) in the United States and other
countries.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6ef057b5f73440dda2ac30d1e534efd4"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out the study under this
section, the Academy shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID12a4960b6c8e45bbbe6b99ac88d4b2e4"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">pay particular attention to soft-path or
low-impact approaches to the management described in subsection (a); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb0f62a0944834895bcc3a24efb7ef755"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consider the costs of approaches that are
analyzed.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbf6ba5758aac43a1bc0bd40504dd9fc5"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall provide to the
Academy a grant in the amount of $1,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2009
through 2011 for use in carrying out the study under this section.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA3362CF644C64172916406625A3FD58D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>307.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reduction in authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Act, each amount authorized to be appropriated
under this Act shall be reduced by 2 percent.</text>
</section>
September 26 (legislative day, September 17),
2008
Read twice and placed on the calendar