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.
Sec. 2. Definition of
Administrator.
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. Critical water infrastructure
projects.
TITLE II—Safe drinking
water infrastructure
Sec. 201. Drinking water technical
assistance for communities.
Sec. 202. Preconstruction
work.
Sec. 203. Priority system
requirements.
Sec. 204. Affordability.
Sec. 205. Safe drinking water revolving
loan funds.
Sec. 206. Other authorized
activities.
Sec. 207. Authorization of
appropriations.
Sec. 208. Negotiation of
contracts.
Sec. 209. Critical drinking water
infrastructure projects.
Sec. 210. Reducing lead in drinking
water.
TITLE
III—Miscellaneous
Sec. 301. Definition of
Academy.
Sec. 302. Program for water quality
enhancement and management.
Sec. 303. Agricultural watershed
sustainability technology grant program.
Sec. 304. State revolving fund review
process.
Sec. 305. Cost of service
study.
Sec. 306. Effective utility management
strategies.
Sec. 307. WaterSense
Program.
2.Definition of
AdministratorIn this Act, the
term Administrator means the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency.
<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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8D007525647D40008936CDDB67D9CD83" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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="idF5784F74FDED42EA982C48D75FE22A64"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Advanced
decentralized wastewater system</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>advanced decentralized
wastewater system</term> means a decentralized wastewater system that provides
more effective treatment than a conventional septic system.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe25f3076f4744731aac83bfdc0cb9322"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Decentralized wastewater system</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id02AC0E6DA2474B08AACDC9CD1D81F893"><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>(3)</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>(4)</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>(5)</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, decentralized wastewater treatment
systems, and advanced 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 2010 through 2014; 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 2010 through
2014.</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>
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<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>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id14997E8CD8B44F9EB15BF8491872CCC4"><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 by striking subsection (c) and
inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD92C6C60A9EF4DD4B675CB0DA0FBA292" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9F58189289F14EFBA17969656E4D8528"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds in each State
water pollution control revolving fund shall be used only for providing
financial assistance—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id21CB62CB1E09438097C826C717A39972"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to a municipality or an intermunicipal,
interstate, or State agency or a private treatment works or decentralized
wastewater system that principally treats municipal wastewater or domestic
sewage—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD1CC56CD86894EAD9DECEF66D1479892"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for construction of treatment works (as
defined in section 212); or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id147BDB7284364290AC15BE3D8D0DB701"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for capital costs associated with
monitoring equipment for combined sanitary sewer overflows;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0AB9D695D23743448CCF98AB1D63E35F"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to implement measures to control, manage,
reduce, treat, infiltrate, or reuse stormwater, the primary purpose of which is
the preservation, protection, 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, or
acquisition of other land and interests in land that are necessary for those
activities and measures);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5B518D7CC9C34D54B8806C6DE4862267"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to implement a management program
established under section 319;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95C83599F0FB40E2AE5AE64D7C28D2B3"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to develop and implement a conservation and
management plan under section 320;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0D93F0452BEF4704B5774654B4FC42FC"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for projects to increase the security of
wastewater treatment works (as defined in section 212), excluding any
expenditure for operations or maintenance;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id17C5E7F1C6D84BE087699B58F4C5DD02"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to carry out water conservation or
efficiency projects that result in direct water quality benefits;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB0DC9EF50ECD45CDA5FAB775152531A7"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to implement measures to integrate water
resource management planning and implementation;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id50C20FCC161F4B12A95F2F915CFE5288"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to carry out water reuse (including
wastewater reuse), reclamation, and recycling projects that result in direct
water quality benefits;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID13e64f854b79472ca8b824e55646cc38"><enum>(I)</enum><text>for projects to
increase the energy efficiency of treatment works (as defined in section 212)
that result in direct water quality benefits;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID70ab5feec6194e458e5efab60b807d15"><enum>(J)</enum><text>for the
development and implementation of utility management improvement plans
consistent with an effective utility management strategy (as defined in section
306(a) of the <short-title>Water Infrastructure Financing
Act</short-title>); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd4fb5a1ab1bf48b4b9f73e42036d8e7e"><enum>(K)</enum><text>for the
development and implementation of integrative watershed improvement plans that
include cost-effective solutions that consider point and nonpoint sources of
pollution and traditional and cost-saving water treatment and efficiency
projects.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDd5ae1a52c51846ca991ffb17e10560fa"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>Not
more than 5 percent of the amount of a capitalization grant of a State may be
used during a fiscal year to provide assistance for activities described in
subparagraph (J) or (K) of paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID432f61c03fa14390b12e06d90c261cd1"><enum>(3)</enum><header>State water
pollution control revolving funds</header>
<subparagraph id="id623FCBC55D0B4854A296DA28B7BB6F98"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>A State water pollution control revolving fund shall be
established, maintained, and credited with repayments.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id37E3BB5800584204BCB8A50DE37F016E"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Balance of
fund</header><text>The balance of each fund described in subparagraph (A) shall
be available in perpetuity for providing financial assistance under this
section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6BD71821F6EA470BB54E3A125E04419A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Modification of
definition</header><text>Section 212(2)(A) of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1292(2)(A)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="IDceb1fc4e5c52415b9c52e5938d4247c9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>and any works, including site</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID078beff8bd8140a4b2dbcbc323dc6881"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>is used for ultimate</quote> and inserting <quote>will be used for
ultimate</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID4b81c57aa65349c8bc92f66f63ac0bfc"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>; and acquisition of other land and interests in land necessary for
construction</quote> before the period at the end.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></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: “title,
except that—</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA9FED405B8714AADAC3FD3AA7C5766C0" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id28DE2D0592F54873B0DE958341801135"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such amounts shall not exceed an amount
equal to the sum of, for each fiscal year—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCADCCA5E2542467BB32CB94D24FACB37"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an amount equal to the greatest of—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1AB7F0EC0A2744B8ACA1FBF8AFE13D16"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$400,000;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD3F6CB85E0AC40CBAA03985DD90E580A"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><fraction>1/5</fraction> percent of the
current valuation of the fund; or</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAFA42ECBDADB49F8BF2DAB2954BE3319"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">6 percent of all grant awards to the fund
under this title for a fiscal year; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id829975AE2D8642738DF3F0DCBB19C8C2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of any fees collected by the
State for that purpose, regardless of the source; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF507894DDE964C1BAE2EACD0DC5D57E0"><enum>(B)</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>
</subparagraph><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id85898A0BB22945F9A7DEA9E2AB145E94" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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, subject to paragraph (5), 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>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFA48DC894A0B4D69A254BC375C751B5E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</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 a portion of the loan amount up 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>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfafca122886040e5ae318347bdcb506f"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">decentralized or distributed stormwater
controls;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1fb52bcc821a4f289e633300c324d295"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">advanced decentralized wastewater
treatment;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4343a2a30c4e4a6b9451034e3a276ce8"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">low-impact development technologies and
nonstructural approaches;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb7eb962e5f184052b90ff769e30b7404"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">stream buffers;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID06fd4da1c12a4001bef34b7b8360124a"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">wetland restoration and enhancement;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8a8d868a19e242c68c00adb27a66301e"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">actions to minimize the quantity of and
direct connections to impervious surfaces;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1c42459e5abd4d77947d9bd0c0fefafa"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">soil and vegetation, or other permeable
materials;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0afdf97922564123b0953e138e041485"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">actions that increase efficient water use,
water conservation, or water reuse; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID18e13d0d9f7546bea05e8e5de7e914c0"><enum>(I)</enum><text>actions that
increase energy efficiency or reduce energy consumption at a treatment
works.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id99F51B3D2EB54C77B9FF56369BAEF161"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Treatment of
loan forgiveness</header><text>The amount of loan forgiveness provided by a
State under this subsection shall be—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id82798CCAE3044DE38315E246E4C2C57F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>credited to each
State; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDE205992D6404A40BE8F11EDA5E3F805"><enum>(B)</enum><text>deducted from the
total amount of State capitalization grants for which matching funds are
required from the State under section
602(b)(2).</text>
</subparagraph></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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFAE38AAE7EB84C81B01196275E103944" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subsection id="ID13405c4184b74f30ba53dd570de6c496"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Priority system
requirement</header>
<paragraph id="ID7fe3951e27f24e7291faa7f133f5d8ba"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this subsection:</text>
<subparagraph id="ID4bc5706af9434aa7b2ff8dd27b9f57cf"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Restructuring</header><text>The
term <term>restructuring</term> means—</text>
<clause id="ID16b78b3d3901476e85c18b64508864da"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the consolidation
of management functions or ownership with another facility; or</text>
</clause><clause id="ID4b1fac0718ac479c80506476091334ec"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the formation of
cooperative partnerships.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDad33466fea5a429aaf0ac30032fdad0d"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Traditional
wastewater approach</header><text>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 id="ID69a072b1adf14a26a30dd7644d2d2d20"><enum>(i)</enum><text>collection
sewers;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID620f1e130b044805a68b9da66e9161e0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a centralized
treatment plant using biological, physical, or chemical treatment processes;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="IDb820cd9a98f8487a8c30b36b7c5492a9"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a direct point
source discharge to surface water.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDae597d259c7142a7adaa5efa0210b604"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Priority
system</header><text>In providing financial assistance from the water pollution
control revolving fund of the State, the State shall establish a priority
system that—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDb5993dc07979450b82587827d0d58cc8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>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 id="IDa8df6286a714430fac34bf72f5bee07c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>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><subparagraph id="ID9364a4a9ec80447cb38ad57955976f3b"><enum>(C)</enum><text>provides for
public notice and opportunity to comment on the establishment of the priority
system and the summary under subparagraph (D); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID718ed4c6ccc84889a00a3331352b787b"><enum>(D)</enum><text>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 id="IDefc97948265f4768855345c2da137199"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the priority
assigned to each project under the priority system of the State; and</text>
</clause><clause id="ID636bd46342bc4b0a80ef2d8e627d7c6c"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the funding
schedule for each project, to the extent the information is available.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID195fd1cd66e5452a896b1059780448d5"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Weight given to
applications</header><text>After determining project priorities under
subparagraph (2), the State shall give greater weight to an application for
assistance if the application includes such information as the State determines
to be necessary and contains—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID2ca1cd27ecf7475199e75704c138086a"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a description of
utility management best practices undertaken by a treatment works applying for
assistance, including—</text>
<clause id="IDa3964b69cead4d67ae377d17e23cb09f"><enum>(i)</enum><text>an inventory of
assets, including a description of the condition of those assets;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID805f63a3bd6c41638bae6c51aff010ec"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a schedule for
replacement of the assets;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDd71b7b6dc89e496aa80937fa2f9d969e"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>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;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="ID983badc5be2848e9ac73d760af203e27"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>a review of
options for restructuring the treatment works;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID612ff7b6c54a433dab03a4ae51e2682c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>approaches other
than a traditional wastewater approach that treat or minimize sewage or urban
stormwater discharges using—</text>
<clause id="ID28bfa3c1dea148debc42fbceef7cd3f2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>decentralized or
distributed stormwater controls;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDd6ad0eb2d95d475c9eab9152410f7526"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>advanced
decentralized wastewater treatment;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID70d1eaabc25342b3a35e360b92d03fb6"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>low-impact
development technologies and nonstructural approaches;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID6e2aeae0bc7b434795be45d05c200bb4"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>stream
buffers;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDd9431bba834c40259c53f0d35b22c4f0"><enum>(v)</enum><text>wetland
restoration and enhancement;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID76437f4409694aa191a74320cd7e3518"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>actions to
minimize the quantity of and direct connections to impervious surfaces;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID2566a13cc0ae4b81b41f8fea0644bec7"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>soil and
vegetation, or other permeable materials;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID4fdafe3b2f174eb6a5557c796331a1b8"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>actions that
increase efficient water use, water conservation, or water reuse; or</text>
</clause><clause id="ID5fd94e2958954931af59973220d30f64"><enum>(ix)</enum><text>actions that
increase energy efficiency or reduce energy consumption at a treatment
works;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID70471ab456834f97ab9c51e7f3fd8a36"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a demonstration of
consistency with State, regional, and municipal watershed plans, water
conservation and efficiency plans, or integrated water resource management
plans;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID03e027da24224c2f94f6867ceb837920"><enum>(D)</enum><text>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>
<clause id="ID5d24ce4864ae41468a284b494778080d"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the State, in the
case of a permit program approved under section 402, determines will meet
permit requirements; or</text>
</clause><clause id="ID0aba14639320420db6594c2427c096af"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the Administrator
determines are measurably superior, as compared to regulatory standards;
or</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDec51dab160f44f75a2c797cfe8c043fa"><enum>(E)</enum><text>projects that
address adverse environmental
conditions.</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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA7C1636DF46D429FB89C0250AF726553" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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="id4BA7DD349DD04A4292633E36F01CC414"><enum>(A)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idA291507404D54B6FB052AFE607278E63"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reserve not more than the greater
of—</text>
<subclause changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id77F6ED8E39824EF0A3DCB8047FEC83B8" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">33 percent of a capitalization grant made
under this title; or</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3BFA02D583A8439E87162CE639CE993A" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">33 percent of a capitalization grant made
under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12);
and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id74D877B17A6D4720BFE6AF3CB8B09FAF" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">add the reserved funds 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 changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC88C956788F1486FB0C8537FFFDC3703" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8D46DE09147C4F38A4A991C896EF4F12" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3A942ECD4AD141E59307209A9FADEF9B" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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 subsections (a) and (b) and
inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id29CE609B623F4377B0B35A5F89DDC404" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1B4BBBB77A4140EA84A44C3067AD5ED3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Amounts authorized to be appropriated to carry out this
section for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014 shall be allotted among
States by the Administrator in accordance with the percentages specified in the
following table:</text>
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<thead>
<row><entry align="center" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="1">State</entry><entry align="center" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="1">Percentage</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Alabama</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.012860</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Alaska</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Arizona</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.010247</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Arkansas</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">California</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.079629</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Colorado</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.010164</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Connecticut</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.014150</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Delaware</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">District of Columbia</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.005000</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Florida</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.044139</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Georgia</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.012825</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Hawaii</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.008048</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Idaho</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Illinois</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.048540</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Indiana</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.024633</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Iowa</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.010266</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Kansas</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.009129</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Kentucky</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.012025</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Louisiana</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.013465</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Maine</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007829</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Maryland</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.025129</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Massachusetts</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.025754</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Michigan</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.033487</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Minnesota</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.020385</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Mississippi</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.009112</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Missouri</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.028037</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Montana</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Nebraska</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.008023</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Nevada</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">New Hampshire</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">New Jersey</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.046117</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">New Mexico</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">New York</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.103531</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">North Carolina</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.019007</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">North Dakota</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Ohio</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.054722</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Oklahoma</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.008171</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Oregon</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.012456</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Pennsylvania</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.041484</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Rhode Island</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">South Carolina</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">South Dakota</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Tennessee</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.011019</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Texas</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.037664</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Utah</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Vermont</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Virginia</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.020698</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Washington</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.017588</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">West Virginia</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.011825</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Wisconsin</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.022844</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Wyoming</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Puerto Rico</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.005000</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Territories</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.002500.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</subsection><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
to carry out planning under sections 205(j) and 303(e) an amount equal to the
greater of—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id483E58568E6B40BA852CDB6CB2E5A928"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 percent of the sums allotted to the State
under this section for the fiscal year; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id16606BEB6EC44009929F693A13309E03"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$100,000.</text>
</subparagraph></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 allotted to
the State under this section for a fiscal year, 1.5 percent shall be allocated
to Indian tribes (as defined in section 518(h)).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID28578bfbddaa48de867a8d66b542c9e3"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Operator
training</header><text>Of the total amount of funds made available to carry out
this title, for fiscal year 2009 and each fiscal year thereafter, the
Administrator may reserve not more than $5,000,000 to carry out the objectives
described in section
104(g).</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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB460858CED764C98B91AEA33BAD58198" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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
2010 and 2011;</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 2012;</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 2013;
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 2014.</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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD257D0FA0A0A4E8BA4D58E710EC4C657" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB3511761A8474B62802301FF52169A8A" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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">$250,000,000 for fiscal year 2010;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfffa93548fea4ee49027b7b005c96658"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$300,000,000 for fiscal year 2011;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd9fdd86f26d94d2694a809701937a84f"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$350,000,000 for fiscal year 2012;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa46f5126e48b46778baf0f3f00ac2246"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$400,000,000 for fiscal year 2013;
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 2014.</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 2010 and 2011</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For each of fiscal years 2010 and 2011,
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 2012 and
thereafter</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year
2012 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>2011</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID03822dfede984c0f8f8087e809986b6f" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>111.</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 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><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 2010 through 2014.</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="idF02D67DAA4964CD38278CB3B34069562"><enum>201.</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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA16C09ED9E774EFD91964917E55EF924" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA09DFDB7AC53471CADD9197F7BB0A792" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8C461A4AFAF04E34BA882FD216613B75" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4D04259A49804F07A8B7F7A00A3CF51B" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7D4D67DD1E8E416A9C79112FADF63A55" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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, in consultation with the State, are qualified
and will be the most effective at assisting small systems.</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—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2EF928BF4FE442C7A8DBB034C9C40A60"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$7,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD6F1D00829F8436FADCDF2BD372458C9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$7,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2011
through 2014.</text>
</clause></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 2010 through
2014.</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="ID114d517118494dcdaa2f36ca31f3b7a8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</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,
or distribution facilities of public water systems or provide for capital
projects (excluding any expenditure for operations and maintenance) 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC9EE39DA560E485EBDAFE913B8C4BDEE" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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 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>203.</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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5E843AB4E10F44E18D69AA621EC6C266" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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);</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; and</text>
</clause><clause id="IDf4f48c6c95de42bab55338785be8a375"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>improve the
sustainability of systems.</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 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 and contains—</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
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="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;</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); and</text>
</clause><clause id="ID4b14258e2a074cf0984e718f050a98ac"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>approaches to
improve the sustainability of the system, including—</text>
<subclause id="IDb40deaac05514b1ca87f62a9bd39bedb"><enum>(I)</enum><text>water efficiency
or conservation;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="ID4bbcae3a09b2404e8391881132506ef2"><enum>(II)</enum><text>use of reclaimed
water; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="IDfd1d72bfdc3247e3ab486cc209d4ad4e"><enum>(III)</enum><text>actions to
increase energy efficiency.</text>
</subclause></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>204.</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>205.</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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4371098AC6C74D0CAC101FE965980FF0" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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 the greater
of—</text>
<item changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDA16DB98C5AA4E9E8B13E9322158E88F" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">33 percent of a capitalization grant made
under this section; or</text>
</item><item changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idACDC155AE27B44AAA31E1F25379EAD9D" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">33 percent of a capitalization grant made
under section 601 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C.
1381);</text>
</item></subclause><subclause changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF7499A12944849A7BCBCA6541079FE0B" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id28612C72817E4CB88300C43C4752ACD4" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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>206.</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>207.</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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id633BC89C8A1F47FB83F47A175D244438" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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 2010;</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
2011 and 2012;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID016e8086e24a4f948878ce4b7be11936"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$3,200,000,000 for fiscal year 2013;
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 2014.</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>208.</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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6B9F6E1417AF4B3AAED5047140256D51" reported-display-style="strikethrough" 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>209.</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 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—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE12CBC3B412840DDBE2569F83A6CEB07"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$230,000,000 for fiscal year 2010;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB88574B03EDF4452BCEAEDEA8D52D654"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$300,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011
through 2014.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1FD8ABE063F94DB18BF2C08A3FBA2F95"><enum>210.</enum><header>Reducing lead
in drinking water</header>
<subsection id="ID5f80543e7e36479cbdd030d45a4e5b14"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section:</text>
<paragraph id="id4CB5C4D1D25E4E278D663237C9C77351"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Eligible
entity</header><text>The term <term>eligible entity</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDe087ab8d59794199a3c2bce96a88e384"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a community water
system (as defined in section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C.
300f));</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID49e9d9d1fb9a49ea941115a8a38f49c6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a system located
in an area governed by an Indian Tribe (as defined in that section);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID6e01fe15d8af4d2e9ffa54d3006ba7c9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a nontransient
noncommunity water system;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID530814bc6b214d4199868f42ca7be1eb"><enum>(D)</enum><text>a qualified
nonprofit organization, as determined by the Administrator; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc02cfad3ecf94b8688417e1be594b88e"><enum>(E)</enum><text>a municipality or
State, interstate, or intermunicipal agency.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id031C7926E77A4E80843DE27D93D5E5C9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Lead reduction
project</header><text>The term <term>lead reduction project</term> means a
project or activity the primary purpose of which is to reduce the level of lead
in water for human consumption by—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID2aa8729796784b1080f54710a96ede63"><enum>(A)</enum><text>replacement of
publicly owned lead service lines;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID6aa56269ab4f475f95b5ff84f126442e"><enum>(B)</enum><text>capital costs,
testing, planning, or other relevant activities, as determined by the
Administrator, to identify and address conditions (including corrosion control)
that contribute to increased lead levels in water for human consumption;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDb382ead36c9442ecb88298dedc75df3b"><enum>(C)</enum><text>assistance to
low-income homeowners to replace privately owned service lines, pipes,
fittings, or fixtures that contain lead; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID28a4306c877a4831bf16a3f72684978f"><enum>(D)</enum><text>education of
consumers regarding measures to reduce exposure to lead from drinking water or
other sources.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDc68bf66c21014c2a8c122b31e1c0c2a2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Low-income</header><text>The
term <term>low-income</term>, with respect to an individual provided assistance
under this section, has such meaning as may be given the term by the head of
the municipality or State, interstate, or intermunicipal agency with
jurisdiction over the area to which assistance is provided.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID18e50743f3cc48b98a81665445840679"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Municipality</header><text>The
term <term>municipality</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID9499d027cef645b2a708a45e576f68a7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a city, town,
borough, county, parish, district, association, or other public entity
established by, or pursuant to, applicable State law; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID43367255e74a4a938c2757fdc379412d"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an Indian tribe
(as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b)).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID0a7e07eecd8f48c685807b4b81908afb"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Grant
program</header>
<paragraph id="ID99887f60b99f4c31a74d2ef97e75418e"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>Not
later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator
shall establish a grant program to provide assistance to eligible entities for
lead reduction projects in the United States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID67dc0ecf4d1f4c589f3c5856cddb84f6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Evaluation</header><text>In
providing assistance under this section, the Administrator shall
evaluate—</text>
<subparagraph id="idA444363FBB204BAEB666EC6534F94DB0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>whether an
eligible entity applying for assistance has taken steps to identify the source
of lead in water for human consumption; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id21C7FBE9C3AA4E08A7D6B520F20954BB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the means by which
the proposed lead reduction project would reduce lead levels in the applicable
water system.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDcfe148c63ecd4593836c051ff0b47fa8"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Priority
application</header><text>In providing grants under this subsection, the
Administrator shall give priority to an eligible entity that—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDa6a3f082e04d4a03a1080c8050fd013d"><enum>(A)</enum><text>carries out a lead
reduction project at a public water system or nontransient noncommunity water
system that has exceeded the lead action level established by the Administrator
at any time during the 3-year period preceding the date of submission of the
application of the eligible entity;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa9a154ac83124d549c6e9ac39ed0034c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>addresses lead
levels in water for human consumption at a school, daycare, or other facility
that primarily serves children or another vulnerable human subpopulation;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID4b7de9232bcd46a38fb9d923b58f273b"><enum>(C)</enum><text>addresses such
priority criteria as the Administrator may establish, consistent with the goal
of reducing lead levels of concern.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID469346d60730475bbc05281bdcd02d5d"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Cost
sharing</header>
<subparagraph id="IDabb38ecddb75430aa8722d54e51ea8f6"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subject to subparagraph (B), 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>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDcca118db97e9421fb5a0271f1adb34d7"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>The
Administrator may reduce or eliminate the non-Federal share under subparagraph
(A) for reasons of affordability, as the Administrator determines to be
appropriate.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID41bbbeaf95af4e17a3c9e0e8b62f98d5"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Low-income
assistance</header>
<subparagraph id="idDAD7BDAF8C0F4EBA8DAADED365007578"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C), an eligible entity
may use a grant provided under this subsection to provide assistance to
low-income homeowners to carry out lead reduction projects.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID00804fad28be4b88bf4751f7a00db21c"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Low-income
assistance cap</header><text>Of the funds made available to carry out this
section, not more than $5,000,000 may be allocated to provide assistance to
low-income homeowners under this paragraph for any fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDbc79f9beb5514d95b5dc623ec8b70781"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>The
amount of a grant provided to a low-income homeowner under this paragraph shall
not exceed $5,000.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDa7c575c0c2fd4a8886604c54c93cd943"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Special
consideration for lead service line replacement</header><text>In carrying out
lead service line replacement using a grant under this subsection, an eligible
entity shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID3d7595ab2ac34bd5b4dbe8095501ee97"><enum>(A)</enum><text>notify customers
of the replacement of any publicly owned portion of the lead service
line;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa80ed939efdf47e4828bd993570e5c4f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>offer to replace
the privately owned portion of the lead service line at the cost of
replacement;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDdf34f64efc474f74ab0a1dc3b00b2ecd"><enum>(C)</enum><text>recommend measures
to avoid exposure to short-term increases in lead levels following a partial
lead service line replacement; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idC501904BA7F34B1483FA8A151892EF05"><enum>(D)</enum><text>demonstrate that
the eligible entity has considered multiple options for reducing lead in
drinking water, including an evaluation of options for corrosion
control.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDac144a775c59400eb73830e93f65b713"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this section $60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014.</text>
</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">Definition of Academy</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title, the term <term>Academy</term>
means the National Academy of Sciences.</text>
</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">Innovative technology and alternative
approaches 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 provide
grants to, and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, research
institutions, institutions of higher education, National Laboratories, and
other appropriate entities (including consortia of such institutions and
entities), through a competitive process, in accordance with the plan developed
under subsection (b), for research regarding, and development of the use of,
innovative and alternative technologies to improve water quality, drinking
water supply, or water use efficiency and conservation.</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 collection, storage, and treatment
and reuse of rainwater, stormwater, and graywater;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID26976c68c32c4caea5260bac74f46f3e"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>identification of
behavioral, social, and economic barriers to achieving greater water use
efficiency;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID49cfada6690546d6b73fc1c6dbf8fdf1"><enum>(v)</enum><text>use of watershed
planning directed toward water quality, conservation, and supply;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID24a86450e9704579a2c657bad7c8d04b"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>actions to reduce
energy consumption;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="IDb651580df3aa418f847c07d2ef8ca7cb"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>water
treatment;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7a4a5d592ac74e93aca1883a02cd2338"><enum>(viii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water distribution and wastewater
collection systems;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id817BB107AE004B8DB6E62F893249815E"><enum>(ix)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">desalination; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7da8a4ecf7344b099a717ed1b2eebd8f"><enum>(x)</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 use efficiency and
conservation;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID5c0d8ef2ef80488292ee13d2bbc05d20"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>actions to
reduce energy consumption;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID3ee791c631934f5990de64ff027fd223"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>technologies to
extract energy from wastewater; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5e256ffef6ba423badffa2488a4902cd"><enum>(ix)</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 subsections (c)
and (d) at a research consortium or institute or other appropriate
organization, as determined by the Administrator.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6f8f25e55fb544c0bbcc59410b49a6c7"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Factors for consideration</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In planning and implementing the program
under this subsection, the Administrator shall take into consideration—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="ID7fb30bd71ae946c3a65590e88c19a292"><enum>(A)</enum><text>research needs
identified by water resource managers, State and local governments, and other
interested parties; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="ID6f66b1b4045d4213a10b90ef5a441c37"><enum>(B)</enum><text>technologies and
processes likely to achieve the greatest increases in water quality, drinking
water supply, or water use efficiency and conservation.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="ID3a2de0789cba466ebf42691a490997c4"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Minority-serving
institutions</header><text>In carrying out the program under this subsection,
the Administrator—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id6F5C759EC2A144749E275B1831753CBD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>may provide
extramural grants to institutions of higher education; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id3C46665D32D1490CBB9ACAE076B3BFF6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall encourage
participation by minority-serving institutions.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="ID4935210c311f472ebb474b5c005e1090"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Strategic
research plan</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="IDa3dddc2d239a4fdaa99d75743ed2357f"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of
this Act, the Administrator, in coordination with the heads of other
appropriate Federal departments and agencies, shall develop a strategic
research plan for the grant program under subsection (a).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id6E04F060925841B3A9C7A5F60A2D5D99"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Requirements</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id2715794F2A78420F97DFD5716523021A"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Coordination</header><text>The
plan under paragraph (1) shall be carried out, to the maximum extent
practicable, in coordination with other research and development strategic
plans of the Environmental Protection Agency.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="IDd9c9d7598c6847259b3757af29fe1576"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The
plan under paragraph (1) shall—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="ID02f3b4fb38b5408c81c989becea7ce35"><enum>(i)</enum><text>describe, in
outline form, research goals and priorities relating to an agenda of water
quality, drinking water supply, and water use efficiency and conservation,
including—</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="IDb434fc3c36884c8887158079a26398a7"><enum>(I)</enum><text>developing
innovative water supply-enhancing processes and technologies;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="IDf373ed38a79747d7bda631a60bc83662"><enum>(II)</enum><text>improving
existing processes and technologies, including wastewater treatment,
desalination, and groundwater recharge and recovery schemes;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="IDa2bce1bfb7b242c7a0e4bd7dd201aeda"><enum>(III)</enum><text>improving the
effectiveness and efficiency of nontraditional wastewater treatment practices,
including nonstructural alternatives, low-impact development techniques, and
decentralized approaches; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="ID46d86a6770494f0d96950c50235a530e"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>exploring
concepts that extract energy from wastewater;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="ID0e761d42aeb840cd8912c648e8eefe3f"><enum>(ii)</enum><subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id1D48CB06431B46BCAD0FFE94B1C860F1"><enum>(I)</enum><text>identify current
Federal water-related research efforts directed toward achieving the goals of
improving water quality, water use efficiency, or water conservation or
expanding water supply; and</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" id="idD7D1BB45789247B98B8FB2219A5D31DE" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(II)</enum><text>describe the
means by which those efforts are coordinated with the program established under
subsection (a) in order to leverage resources and avoid duplication;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="ID2a311036f4e74889a2c72b3072c39ab9"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>take into
consideration the public health and environmental quality impacts and
cost-effectiveness of each relevant technology and approach; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID0d31f87f0b0e459a98b722b6ccc49e81"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>take into
consideration and incorporate, as appropriate, recommendations contained in
reports and studies conducted by Federal departments and agencies, the National
Research Council, the National Science and Technology Council, and other
appropriate entities.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="ID1a5851975afd4a8ba31fbf0270ef6c8b"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Science Advisory
Board review</header><text>The Administrator shall submit the plan under
paragraph (1) to the Science Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection
Agency for review.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="IDf94f4d73d41b4272af4d5fd5efc38075"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Revisions</header><text>The
plan under paragraph (1) shall be revised and amended as necessary to reflect
updated scientific findings and national research priorities.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc82eb91f52674274bbdcb06ad8cef493"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Municipalities 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, authority, or other public entity established 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 initial report under subsection (e)(2), 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 (5).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbbd3c1ef88fc4793885dcf45362f522d"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A municipality that seeks to participate in
the demonstration grant program established under this subsection shall submit
to the Administrator a plan that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbaa3b8dcb6564751bcb46d2bd304ab17"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is developed in coordination with—</text>
<clause 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>
</clause><clause 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>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDaeaaf69c0afc46e0bc3119f3929efdc7"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">describes water impacts specific to urban
or rural areas;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbe0e4c4e871f4e2493177b1590922a31"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes a strategy under which the
municipality, through participation in the demonstration grant program, could
effectively—</text>
<clause 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>
</clause><clause 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>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID364e8e1c49f1490b90ad00ff4fd2bcd8"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">could be achieved using more traditional
methods; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7d5321b942d8401097e622df4ad7cdf5"><enum>(II)</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>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID43a1bdcd02a345bca392c2a6ef4200f3"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes a schedule for achieving the water
quality, water supply, or water use efficiency and conservation goals of the
municipality.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe1b1f3875f7d4e6286509c218bce7410"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Categories of projects</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id11863F4B256B4790914D3434313864E0"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out the demonstration grant
program, the Administrator shall provide grants for—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4C426F68214845FB8A24FE15604AA137"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">projects relating to water supply, water
quality, or water use efficiency and conservation matters described in
subsection (a)(2); and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="IDfb7338fa79144918bfc21d8fca870357"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>subject to
subparagraph (B), not less than 2 projects for the incorporation into a
building of the most current water use efficiency and conservation technologies
and designs.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="ID3947cc8b8b6249699f36a6131aa1c67e"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Projects for
incorporation</header>
<clause commented="no" id="id6C98002491F9497C8C8CCB25D990D43D"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Incremental cost
limitation</header><text>A grant provided under subparagraph (A)(ii) may be
used only to pay the incremental costs of incorporation into a building of a
water use efficiency and conservation technology or design.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID1c20bc0b39c84fd6be8d83a9b3a569b7"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Types of
buildings</header><text>Of the projects for which grants are provided under
subparagraph (A)(ii)—</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="idC15556CEF62E457ABA9345548A385C16"><enum>(I)</enum><text>at least 1 shall
be for a residential building; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="idE2106A6C00B34B01901B69790DDA2680"><enum>(II)</enum><text>at least 1 shall
be for a commercial building.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="ID4f75e875867c4a879880eac71225e296"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Public
availability</header><text>The design of each building for which a grant is
provided under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall be made available to the public, and
each such building shall be accessible to the public for tours and educational
purposes.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa2132a55f24745d89b47930d2c080995"><enum>(6)</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>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID85075a50dcd449bcbb8c479c45f5eb68"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure, to the maximum extent practicable,
that—</text>
<clause 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>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc9a28c669b5b4f73b9e7cbed24af5ca6"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">geographical distribution;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID70d66fcd9718448699778eace83eacef"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">innovative technologies used for the
projects; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4738823c4c9842f0a3b9d1dfdd4da23c"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">nontraditional approaches (including
low-impact development technologies) used for the projects; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID64cc68ea714e47bc870bb693758926d7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each category of project described in
paragraph (5) is adequately represented;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0703d265a36f4afa94343738ceca236b"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">give higher priority to projects
that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb0ed111d30fb4c079370b986757352fe"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">address multiple problems; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDffdf1260c51244699f09e543bcf0dd85"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are regionally applicable;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID977d9f6fc7a447079b51990fc5c4e480"><enum>(C)</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>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc8b13e64fd7b476cb3d523badf30be0d"><enum>(D)</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>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID044848f65e1845b2a534a4909046fa28"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cost sharing</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7b1901bcd8bf4ba685f943f5d34bddf6"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subparagraph (B), 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>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd3f4f3bddb734e999d5170395871c180"><enum>(B)</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>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="ID13f31584d6994e0eb49dd2d31b4e1034"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Incorporation of
results and information</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="id8EC9252A242D4F68BD711DD0A106DBB7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Technology
transfer</header><text>The Administrator, taking into consideration the results
of the projects carried out using grants under subsections (a) and (c),
shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="ID9806f28975114c95a7b0dfc8121c5a53"><enum>(A)</enum><text>facilitate the
adoption of technologies and processes to promote increased water quality,
drinking water supply, and water use efficiency and conservation; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="ID27145b5d65d54408a0bb8f928bffb068"><enum>(B)</enum><text>collect and
disseminate information, including through the establishment of a publicly
accessible clearinghouse, regarding those technologies and processes, including
information on—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="ID8ab3e0c611c742b692df552d0ee2e182"><enum>(i)</enum><text>incentives and
impediments to development and commercialization;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID164180e5153949deb314dac38e82c0bd"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>best practices;
and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID9fdbbfe28afa4436920a01fdde62a40d"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>anticipated
increases in water quality, drinking water supply, and water use efficiency and
conservation resulting from the implementation of specific technologies and
processes.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="IDa8ecc1505dd44afe8343cf77ba1cbe24"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Incorporation of
results and information</header><text>To the maximum extent practicable, the
Administrator shall incorporate the results of, and information obtained from,
successful projects under this section into other programs administered by the
Administrator.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfad1b2bf5f9a48f9a17804caf5c910a0"><enum>(e)</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 not less frequently than once every 2 years
thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Environment and
Public Works of the Senate and the Committees on Transportation and
Infrastructure and Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report
describing—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="ID060fec5bf7e04801bfcccacea1475eb0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the findings of
each recipient of a grant under subsection (a) with respect to the
identification of any potential new technology or management approach developed
by the recipient; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id59C0905C533F4A039258EAAA4E1638EF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the status and
results of the grant program under subsection (c).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="ID3598e2f0b7bf494aa248be0166a3e4e8"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Water management
study and report</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="ID32e85bce401d4ec9b14b2b4634a563f6"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this subsection:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="ID26d0cb8069d14a778890548fcb9c4207"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Low-impact
approach</header><text>The term <term>low-impact approach</term> means a
strategy that manages rainfall at the source using decentralized microscale
controls to mimic the predevelopment hydrology of the relevant site by using a
design technique that infiltrates, filters, stores, evaporates, and detains
runoff close to the source.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="ID10ae8eb3214c443991e79d6b87f817b4"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Soft path
approach</header><text>The term <term>soft path approach</term> means a general
framework that encompasses—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="IDfdb024019d2043cfb1ae7e56a125467f"><enum>(i)</enum><text>increased
efficiency of water use;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID400f5af6528f4e21ad1a2e40323fe30a"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>integration of
water supply, wastewater treatment, and stormwater management systems;
and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf8370b46f34a4c1b92afc1c1cda0ea7a"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>protection,
restoration, and effective use of the natural capacities of ecosystems to
provide clean water.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="ID0fa64381f1f34688b048ac2e4f323223"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Study</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="IDc1341edaac0d4140aa3da359a9d3783c"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of
this Act, the Administrator shall enter into an arrangement with the National
Academy of Sciences under which the Academy shall conduct a study, by not later
than 2 years after that date, of innovative, effective, and systematic
approaches for the management of water supply, wastewater, and
stormwater.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="IDa1f9192db1ed43aaaf24d194e18b6365"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The
study shall—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="ID921ea4e2766b41588fd26678c29795b4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>be based on and
enhance, to the maximum extent practicable, relevant studies previously
conducted by the Academy;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID082390fa822343e1bea8c7887e347090"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>focus in
particular on soft-path approaches and low-impact approaches to the management
described in subparagraph (A);</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID07d2de4ef17046d389e9946fcdf755c5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>take into
consideration the costs of each approach analyzed by the study;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID414e5b3b278c4dbbbfafe9e14df8920c"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>examine and
compare the state of research, technology development, and emerging practices
in other developed and developing countries with those in the United
States;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID458c2b9a4f7947c98fe8fc6d3a88ce91"><enum>(v)</enum><text>identify and
evaluate relevant system approaches for comprehensive water management,
including the interrelationship of water systems with other major systems, such
as energy and transportation systems;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ID9c67fc2c11b1456daa6ccaffc232efea"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>identify priority
research and development needs; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="IDd434f29afc5e4d7b93b766ac364b400a"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>assess
implementation needs and barriers.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="ID64ae69da8bc648f39151a303ead9073a"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this paragraph $1,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2010 through
2012.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="ID63dfea3a98ad4416b28f12b5debbf1de"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Report</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id2257FC9C00AA4E73AD211389E9BBF54C"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of
this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Environment and
Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Science and Technology of the
House of Representatives a report describing the key findings of the study
under paragraph (2).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id3BE460DAA8214D058FDC6343DC568CDE"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Inclusions</header><text>The
report under subparagraph (A) shall include—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="id7460F82D05DD4A1CA72F8DA767F63E88"><enum>(i)</enum><text>an evaluation of
relevant challenges and opportunities; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id9E438CE6F1E549FD94FF5F0659A0FC68"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>recommendations
for innovative and integrated solutions for use as a practical reference by
water managers, planners, developers, scientists, engineers, nongovernmental
organizations, Federal departments and agencies, and regulators.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd14b6f0ef8fe45048ad0d5e464f5d360"><enum>(g)</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 $40,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2010 through 2014.</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 watershed sustainability
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 of
Agriculture.</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 watershed sustainability 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><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id0A00E163EA1D4C1B900770EE8F57F08D"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">achieves demonstrable improvements in water
quality that meet or exceed those mandated by statutory or regulatory
requirements; or</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id83C8BAFEEA8F45E8AE1DD2331B9B8FB9" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improves water use efficiency; and</text>
</clause></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
agricultural commodity production, yield, profitability, or 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 in the United
States.</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 or group of persons (including an irrigation district and a drainage
district) engaged in the production and sale of an agricultural commodity that
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 watershed sustainability technology revolving
fund—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9B120DE484DC4E2E9567BE7E50D30C98"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that is established by a State using
amounts provided under subsection (b)(1);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7FEBC754646B45C28122C0B2970D2700"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that is maintained and credited with
repayments; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id503B2441247D4BB9BE6D285E286C55A7"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the balance of which shall be available in
perpetuity for providing financial assistance.</text>
</subparagraph></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 watershed sustainability technology
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 funds are initially disbursed.</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 within the jurisdiction
of 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 2010 and 2014.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="ID7ba9c8b99d9a4bc592074c6981d01661"><enum>306.</enum><header>Effective
utility management strategies</header>
<subsection id="ID6d2bae3b68a046ccadba2696606c169a"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section:</text>
<paragraph id="id0A96D8F5C51747CBB68E0108F6C0C971"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Effective
utility management strategy</header><text>The term <term>effective utility
management strategy</term> means a strategy for the operation and management of
a utility that, as determined by the Administrator, incorporates the following
attributes:</text>
<subparagraph id="IDe97f552932574a35acc313ab8b977e4b"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Product
quality.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa41888978ad44780b0e3c74b86197aab"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Stakeholder
understanding and support.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID1889b26126be478db1791ebc911a7aab"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Customer
satisfaction.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID994ea52b36d743f58095e7add4af1236"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Employee
development.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd337d6b54cc14cddb01111fd4a184329"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Operational
optimization.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID0542c886f2de4bceb90a0ed28f0bc729"><enum>(F)</enum><text>Financial
viability.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDbb766692cdc64ecdbc15036786990945"><enum>(G)</enum><text>Infrastructure
stability.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID8b6279c0eea34384ab35bd0465626851"><enum>(H)</enum><text>Operational
resiliency.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDdcc0df6c994e49649693ca622da261f5"><enum>(I)</enum><text>Community
sustainability.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1215370b5f6f479cb0323162b9a9e6dd"><enum>(J)</enum><text>Water resource
adequacy.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB0BC2D3A068E4DC9A7F1921A53BF1F79"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Utility</header><text>The
term <term>utility</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1B9514CC2D714A0D8BE12AB73CB76D61"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a treatment works
(as defined in section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
U.S.C. 1292)); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDC0B6B57043F4525B4D6AF04F606242E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a public water
system (as defined in section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C.
300f)).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDb2579c6dd1894fa2910dfc19ee2836d8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Action by
Administrator</header><text>The Administrator may carry out training programs,
provide technical assistance, and disseminate information regarding effective
utility management strategies, including by—</text>
<paragraph id="IDfc795882f8134c3e875101716cb7423e"><enum>(1)</enum><text>providing seminars
and workshops (including electronic-based seminars and workshops), conferences,
and other educational programs and developing curricula to advance effective
utility management strategies;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDb186523ca28143c09956ad31a05993bd"><enum>(2)</enum><text>offering support
and advice (including financial, operational, and management advice) to utility
operators and managers regarding effective utility management strategies;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDdcc03ae1b7a2474285c69e88ee07938d"><enum>(3)</enum><text>publishing and
disseminating manuals on best management practices and other relevant
information, success stories, and lessons learned relating to effective utility
management strategies.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDb809e11785334430b8a8013e16f0fdd4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Partner
organizations</header><text>In carrying out subsection (b), the Administrator
may enter into cooperative agreements, as the Administrator determines to be
appropriate, with—</text>
<paragraph id="id1C246FE6B12943E5B0016482F545B914"><enum>(1)</enum><text>stakeholder
associations;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id401F9E9060894674AA48031274F32BD1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>qualified
nonprofit organizations; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idE8C1B7C0D7C842028A357D8566598B27"><enum>(3)</enum><text>other relevant
organizations, as determined by the Administrator.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDa2c99f3625b84193ae8264554b5ee83e"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this section $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="id3222DD073D9745E8B732061E0EEF513C"><enum>307.</enum><header>WaterSense
Program</header>
<subsection id="idC96CEF5AF9D3434B8A57B061912C40DB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>There
is established within the Environmental Protection Agency a program, to be
known as the <quote>WaterSense Program</quote>, to identify and promote
voluntary approaches to increase water efficiency in the United States to
reduce the strain on water and wastewater infrastructure and conserve water
resources for future generations through voluntary labeling, promotion, or
other forms of communication regarding water efficient products, programs,
processes, buildings, landscapes, facilities, and services that meet the
highest water conservation and performance standards.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idF9BAFAEFAB444DBAB152C180F4FC8B9B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Administration</header><text>The
WaterSense Program shall be carried out by the Administrator.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idE7DD178228C04130B751A15AED207F2A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Duties</header><text>In
carrying out the WaterSense Program, the Administrator shall—</text>
<paragraph id="ID337cd40495744592aeac36d3f851d438"><enum>(1)</enum><text>establish—</text>
<subparagraph id="idA708BB686E5F46B49CA444CDBAC838D3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a WaterSense label
to be used for certain items; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id48829FE10F39423FB9788D157FE6413B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the procedure by
which an item may be certified to display the WaterSense label;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id90D45D0E3129452087E42B878722F087"><enum>(2)</enum><text>promote products
displaying the WaterSense label as the preferred technologies in the market
place for—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDd22856cf7a4d4a738aba835f7d7d162a"><enum>(A)</enum><text>reducing water
use; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID9fd946697a594f0599291523fd89b038"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensuring product
performance;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID0d565104ffb741d489cd81a62ad9b1d6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>work to enhance
public awareness of the WaterSense label;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID4c248be0ae3941a7bc59d827ec16d2a9"><enum>(4)</enum><text>preserve the
integrity of the WaterSense label by—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID8e19f879c93e4101af49cd1ea61ae1b6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>developing
specifications to ensure reliable performance of WaterSense-labeled products,
buildings, landscapes, and services;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA163D347B18A49619805A1AE8A2D6783"><enum>(B)</enum><text>overseeing
WaterSense certifications made by third parties;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa351eaf07dee4fdcadd3dd2427c0f079"><enum>(C)</enum><text>conducting reviews
of the use of the WaterSense label in the marketplace and taking corrective
action in any case in which misuse of the label is identified; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idDABC31E322574E5A97366D4E21260ABC"><enum>(D)</enum><text>carrying out such
other measures as the Administrator determines to be appropriate;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDf2d549bfac7942fba25f70ea48526368"><enum>(5)</enum><text>regularly research
and update WaterSense product criteria for each applicable category of
products;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID89c9dcf610924a61aa3dc90943c7e234"><enum>(6)</enum><text>solicit comments
from interested parties before establishing or revising a WaterSense product
category, specification, or criterion (or before the effective date for any
such product category, specification, or criterion, as applicable);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID0250398d97cf40c39ad60a110cdb6448"><enum>(7)</enum><text>on adoption of a
new or revised product category, specification, or criterion, provide
reasonable notice to interested parties regarding—</text>
<subparagraph id="id0D2B55A7C7644E088886388B72ACC4FA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any change
(including a change of effective date) to the product category, specification,
or criterion;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID0b737d14427e4fcd9209546c1dff5f9b"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an explanation of
the change; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID13cc0a44ff2f4d3aa49f83063314d110"><enum>(C)</enum><text>as appropriate,
responses to comments submitted by interested parties regarding the product
category, specification, or criterion;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDb597057c77454c0bbc298fb3a2124e2e"><enum>(8)</enum><text>provide
appropriate lead time, as determined by the Administrator, before the
applicable effective date for a new or significant revision to a product
category, specification, or criterion, taking into account the timing
requirements of the manufacturing, product marketing, and distribution process
for the specific product, programs, processes, buildings, landscapes,
facilities, or services addressed; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDad6aaf04e44e4566951414637fcd07bf"><enum>(9)</enum><text>identify and,
where appropriate, implement other voluntary approaches in commercial,
institutional, and industrial sectors to improve water efficiency.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID5777340c946c4a27bf23e840dc90a638"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Annual
reports</header><text>Not less frequently than once each year, the
Administrator shall prepare and make publicly available a report describing the
activities carried out under this section, including, to the maximum extent
practicable—</text>
<paragraph id="IDa73f5d6fab484b3596310ee01c7f8aa0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>available
information regarding sales in each WaterSense product category; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDe66b33636f2a450685d8c92bcc3cce56"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the savings of
water, energy, and capital costs of water, wastewater, and stormwater
infrastructure attributable to the WaterSense program and each category of
WaterSense product, expressed on a national, regional, State, and watershed
level.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID7d1867f11a7f40fbb5d5bfec97de45d9"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this section—</text>
<paragraph id="id6E3EB5F2AF3F41E980ADCA7978291982"><enum>(1)</enum><text>$5,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2010 and 2011;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDd6a43db9514e49f683f862ac44e53388"><enum>(2)</enum><text>$7,500,000 for
each of fiscal years 2012 and 2013; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID055ad5bfb7084c0d8960477de0398a9d"><enum>(3)</enum><text>$10,000,000 for
fiscal year 2014.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section>
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.
Sec. 2. Definition of
Administrator.
TITLE I—Water pollution
infrastructure
Sec. 101. Technical assistance for rural small
treatment works and medium treatment works.
Sec. 102. Preservation of employee labor
standards.
Sec. 103. Projects eligible for
assistance.
Sec. 104. Affordability.
Sec. 105. Water pollution control revolving
loan funds.
Sec. 106. Transferability of funds.
Sec. 107. Noncompliance.
Sec. 108. Negotiation of contracts.
Sec. 109. Allotment of funds.
Sec. 110. Authorization of
appropriations.
Sec. 111. Sewer overflow control
grants.
Sec. 112. Critical water infrastructure
projects.
TITLE II—Safe drinking water
infrastructure
Sec. 201. Drinking water technical assistance
for communities.
Sec. 202. Preservation of employee labor
standards.
Sec. 203. Preconstruction work.
Sec. 204. Priority system
requirements.
Sec. 205. Affordability.
Sec. 206. Safe drinking water revolving loan
funds.
Sec. 207. Other authorized
activities.
Sec. 208. Authorization of
appropriations.
Sec. 209. Negotiation of contracts.
Sec. 210. Critical drinking water
infrastructure projects.
Sec. 211. Reducing lead in drinking
water.
TITLE
III—Miscellaneous
Sec. 301. Definition of Academy.
Sec. 302. Program for water quality enhancement
and management.
Sec. 303. Agricultural watershed sustainability
technology grant program.
Sec. 304. State revolving fund review
process.
Sec. 305. Cost of service study.
Sec. 306. Effective utility management
strategies.
Sec. 307. WaterSense Program.
Sec. 308. Pharmaceuticals and personal care
products.
Sec. 309. Financing capability
guidance.
2.Definition of
AdministratorIn this Act, the
term Administrator means the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency.
<enum>I</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Water pollution infrastructure</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id50acc447-c7f9-4b40-9886-822935d04694" 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="id5030f51d-ab67-4a12-a571-3432bc2a24b2"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide1048d3a-56ee-4afe-bfa4-df165a693bb2" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc792b4d0-d2ed-493d-9757-39cf2c8df4b6" 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="id90c6e0c6-7364-4418-8db8-87320407ba32"><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="id5c981b60-28c7-4fe4-aa17-832747d7bb8c"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Advanced decentralized
wastewater system</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
<term>advanced decentralized wastewater system</term> means a decentralized
wastewater system that provides more effective treatment than a conventional
septic system.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id53c0957e-3f0e-44d7-b43a-c3d55dcab8cf"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Decentralized wastewater system</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1bb36e30-833c-4c2f-804f-b21bcca56a3e"><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="idaa718aea-1768-42a6-ab6d-e97fbee1fa07"><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="idf11e71cc-1668-4d9e-9334-ec4d31c35b3a"><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="idfdcf87f4-2846-44d3-9fd6-ba6975612092"><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="id17a18e51-3328-4131-8df8-c15fa76401c9"><enum>(3)</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="id93681a93-aa33-4d7a-b393-a8874a86a080"><enum>(4)</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="idc3903e9d-bf0a-4438-99d5-69e025f137d1"><enum>(5)</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="id962b68ee-e145-49bd-9b5d-6923d393e585"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant program</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0e16747e-e170-4495-abba-1cb541ea1050"><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="idcf7c2e46-28db-46ff-a7ff-81e3abe25ed4"><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="idd96df416-940b-4214-9bf2-313d04e64ab3"><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="id0cc58112-eca9-45c9-ba29-2a47498a7e83"><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="id559f2135-e65f-4686-ab61-fb0bb0e8cbd7"><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, decentralized wastewater treatment
systems, and advanced decentralized wastewater treatment systems.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id59198323-1778-4a0e-9454-a2c03a36bf6d"><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="iddfb26172-150f-4870-840d-7a52c6a45820"><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="id66801b26-c448-4284-bbcc-07b2435ac8cf"><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="id37597541-5cfd-4ea7-b0ee-eb952346183d"><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="id3b08b9a4-3887-4fd1-ba9e-0f31056df7be"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">specifies—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id155bb14c-2f26-465b-8863-5de7162f18ca"><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="id979ac112-52e5-459a-a7a1-c474115c0497"><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="id54509bd4-4c63-46ff-bc58-cc758025dc3b"><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="id749d39a9-6779-43d4-b669-8ed2e5c1e5c7"><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="idc2cbc4b6-3f34-4d71-8dc9-5f1bf17e3531"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for grants for small treatment works,
$25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida8d113bd-4048-46c6-a6ad-3dd0da145a04"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for grants for medium treatment works,
$15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through
2014.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf19a4938-a2a7-4463-b5dc-cb87b4301c6f"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3f529de3-e34a-44b6-b8c7-0ad504933b90" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id24c70484-f4c7-452e-82ac-cc132283500d"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Guidance for small systems</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2b518025-f3b8-491e-9e6d-8002c046c474"><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="idcf6d52fd-049f-4b57-bf46-4047b3a61c0a"><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="idb1ae6c18-6637-4c2c-b877-3cf9c6a99339"><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="id64cde4d8-d2ef-49c4-9566-7aa1d984bd3b"><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="idb4bf5e67-e730-4b1c-a92d-e3bfed8226d0"><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="id68e61c93-fb7f-4461-a2b2-6d6c874341d3"><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="id6b2ba814-2dce-4640-97e9-bcf2979b89be"><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 id="id40C3BF9A23C8446A99B55210EE18FBD7"><enum>102.</enum><header>Preservation of
employee labor standards</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 513 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1372) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5575FFDF73B54F2A96259C1AEB0D74B0" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<section id="id0932FA2EF5274C76B525CAEC0A2E3711"><enum>513.</enum><header>Preservation of
employee labor standards</header>
<subsection id="idF5D2320509734FED9EB796999CB52C84"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Notwithstanding section 602(b)(6), 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 title VI) 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>
</subsection><subsection id="id65678692E5B746E5B2188EED95B5EC4D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authority of Secretary
of Labor</header><text>With respect to the labor standards specified in this
section, 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>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="id349A20EF536342728B3E0E432D4590E2"><enum>103.</enum><header>Projects eligible for
assistance</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide582e626-a8a7-477b-9919-2250791324f6"><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 by striking subsection (c) and
inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id671af220-e224-4cc9-b6dc-f7df5206dedd" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf67321be-59ad-4677-8d2f-ca65d420ad9f"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Projects eligible for assistance</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide7ec37f0-7224-4c5f-9a6c-efb746ef0fb1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds in each State
water pollution control revolving fund shall be used only for providing
financial assistance—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide2051712-0a4d-48e2-8d35-5d96a908a0af"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to a municipality or an intermunicipal,
interstate, or State agency or a private treatment works or decentralized
wastewater system that principally treats municipal wastewater or domestic
sewage—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbf0daac1-ac11-45bc-9c4e-60fe1eaf5b99"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for construction of treatment works (as
defined in section 212); or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2a64aa66-1c56-4190-bea6-d55d2c008615"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for capital costs associated with
monitoring equipment for combined sanitary or sewer overflows;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd2ff9e3d-d793-44bc-b564-aaf0b29ea9a6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to implement measures to control, manage,
reduce, treat, infiltrate, or reuse stormwater, the primary purpose of which is
the preservation, protection, 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, or
acquisition of other land and interests in land that are necessary for those
activities and measures);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id448d3210-558f-4f17-8db8-2019984b4581"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to implement a management program
established under section 319;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id68aee30e-ed77-4833-841b-23e5421dcd96"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to develop and implement a conservation and
management plan under section 320;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ideff0b347-2972-4649-af50-b24b3b297788"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for projects to increase the security of
wastewater treatment works (as defined in section 212), excluding any
expenditure for operations or maintenance;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id498dd6aa-3216-4e6d-bd48-bb6466e432e8"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to carry out water conservation or
efficiency projects that result in direct water quality benefits;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2a06c6c6-9f83-438e-aca7-12f38e690ac7"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to implement measures to integrate water
resource management planning and implementation;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0885ff92-686b-4326-b77e-e9738bbadbb7"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to carry out water reuse (including
wastewater reuse), reclamation, and recycling projects that result in direct
water quality benefits;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id90870e1b-0fee-43e4-84cb-03a99025eba1"><enum>(I)</enum><text>for projects to increase
the energy efficiency of treatment works (as defined in section 212) that
result in direct water quality benefits;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id80e46f10-32cf-492f-8837-5cfee1bfc7b2"><enum>(J)</enum><text>for the development and
implementation of utility management improvement plans consistent with an
effective utility management strategy (as defined in section 306(a) of the
<short-title>Water Infrastructure Financing
Act</short-title>); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id343ce542-fe17-4d19-9dbb-7c8e7a44e2b4"><enum>(K)</enum><text>for the development and
implementation of integrative watershed improvement plans that include
cost-effective solutions that consider point and nonpoint sources of pollution
and traditional and cost-saving water treatment and efficiency projects.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idac520eec-bde6-4b59-ac00-c5b65440960d"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>Not
more than 5 percent of the amount of a capitalization grant of a State may be
used during a fiscal year to provide assistance for activities described in
subparagraph (J) or (K) of paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id431150d3-1d02-402d-9169-9228fdf0c4f2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>State water pollution
control revolving funds</header>
<subparagraph id="id753b8dca-de68-4d5a-888f-836c0c7a95c2"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>A State water pollution control revolving fund shall be
established, maintained, and credited with repayments.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idc726244a-9591-4079-95fd-d6f284b93cf8"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Balance of
fund</header><text>The balance of each fund described in subparagraph (A) shall
be available in perpetuity for providing financial assistance under this
section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id206e6263-5b6e-4b23-92ae-aee2b9bdac63"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Modification of
definition</header><text>Section 212(2)(A) of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1292(2)(A)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id9e64309f-260b-41fe-828e-4d103e442ee5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and
any works, including site</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id3bab4365-abdf-4335-b095-9e58bfc0becc"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>is
used for ultimate</quote> and inserting <quote>will be used for
ultimate</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ida77cfc2c-6cf0-445f-8876-8751e0b48451"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>; and
acquisition of other land and interests in land necessary for
construction</quote> before the period at the end.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide774cde3-8040-431f-869f-bfab119a616b" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>104.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Affordability</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida3368427-73a7-449d-821d-0221bf105182"><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="id63428fca-a589-41b0-b5e9-5c735e7c424a"><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="ide73b0776-ab6f-48d6-bae4-e7cc64b8cdb5"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9939677e-a117-4e77-aed8-de3ae6ed035d"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9f4c289b-8e0e-49a1-b866-ffe6d5bb075d"><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="id807f2f75-a891-4a13-9d3c-5c197179504c"><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="idade92aee-0ab8-4ac3-96ff-7e8242dd8814"><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="id01d2e5a2-5f7c-4c7f-8ae3-3f2e2b11bb8d"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3d53280e-ad75-415c-be44-3e988bc5668a" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<quoted-block-continuation-text changed="added" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" quoted-block-continuation-text-level="paragraph" reported-display-style="italic">title, except that—</quoted-block-continuation-text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8743f051-ae32-416a-9f7b-942318701f4f"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such amounts shall not exceed an amount
equal to the sum of, for each fiscal year—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e0361f9-1b7d-46f1-9981-e3c572f9c458"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an amount equal to the greatest of—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd8b46f58-3d50-4472-8d19-f22b55fa8503"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$400,000;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id616b2348-52a8-41ff-bd84-1164e472513e"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><fraction>1/5</fraction> percent of the
current valuation of the fund; or</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id380ac13a-1ca6-4611-a8b2-641ad6be4daa"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">6 percent of all grant awards to the fund
under this title for a fiscal year; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb836f972-5089-4f93-99fd-9ac90ba442b9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of any fees collected by the
State for that purpose, regardless of the source; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id57bdeed3-a292-4de5-ac67-8f8133927df4"><enum>(B)</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>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3e5dd705-2162-468b-9e0e-be4144d3c16c"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (d) the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3869e2a0-e390-4d9f-8319-dcd7170d133d" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc957b825-904a-4baa-8350-0486a2fa0425"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Additional assistance for disadvantaged
communities</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1337eaee-b3db-4130-a74b-bcea5dec4fec"><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="id6afd5a40-06e6-40c7-8101-75275a454052"><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, subject to paragraph (5), 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="idb7a6bb5f-8424-4b82-9851-217d015706c9"><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="id8ff9293d-dbb5-4a66-b81c-78442c51d1ab"><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="iddd510e63-e6a9-4885-91b6-d0d6518fe1fe"><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="iddb24716b-175f-44b7-8a81-5607d164b901"><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="id31180fc1-131a-4dac-b438-c32871101dfc"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cost-saving water treatment and efficiency
improvements</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id33b57262-7299-4d78-85ce-bfa23b09bba2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</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 a portion of the loan amount up 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>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb4bdf518-b668-454c-8abb-56cd5f14b7ea"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">decentralized or distributed stormwater
controls;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9028d832-e9a7-43e1-b837-71392aeab832"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">advanced decentralized wastewater
treatment;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idacd5aac5-2200-4725-b68f-35794ba97e2b"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">low-impact development technologies and
nonstructural approaches;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc842f8d3-6c62-4f4d-ae98-26651b8acfbd"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">stream buffers;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0226999c-43c6-46c4-845a-96ab9c9635e9"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">wetland restoration and enhancement;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id13b7a5fe-6755-463a-a173-8192ce21d7d4"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">actions to minimize the quantity of and
direct connections to impervious surfaces;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide49cc36f-1d41-4578-8376-a985aa60ee91"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">soil and vegetation, or other permeable
materials;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id518c4b98-dec8-4eaa-9a06-054d3b7cca44"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">actions that increase efficient water use,
water conservation, or water reuse, including the rehabilitation or replacement
of existing leaking pipes; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id41ad0b1c-eb6c-43d7-929f-583a9113e09c"><enum>(I)</enum><text>actions that increase
energy efficiency or reduce energy consumption at a treatment works.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id699aa6a2-a4af-463d-977d-1df65de30876"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Treatment of loan
forgiveness</header><text>The amount of loan forgiveness provided by a State
under this subsection shall be—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id30713e91-3d36-4340-a8a7-f80d5525cb35"><enum>(A)</enum><text>credited to each State;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida22fcf4a-0033-4ab0-ada5-1833500e693f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>deducted from the total
amount of State capitalization grants for which matching funds are required
from the State under section
602(b)(2).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4ccccb9a-9058-403c-acf2-6b2a1f2a0f1c"><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="id5f814322-dbde-45d2-9e9f-54c45ba76936" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>105.</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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4f8125c9-aadd-497b-8ba8-6042523cf923" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="id8dc3a87e-5ea9-44b1-b675-dbcff2a982c6"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Priority system
requirement</header>
<paragraph id="id9805217d-d9f7-4ff2-8955-bf437411a3dc"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this subsection:</text>
<subparagraph id="idc331014a-fb6c-4343-ad49-47f7405c689b"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Restructuring</header><text>The
term <term>restructuring</term> means—</text>
<clause id="id347120e4-d551-4133-9629-c6918de04b4f"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the consolidation of
management functions or ownership with another facility; or</text>
</clause><clause id="id7ad7151a-dd13-4fe8-ad8a-30f6c57fb9c5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the formation of
cooperative partnerships.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idaf16d54c-f44a-4599-9a8c-ebb82b696d1c"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Traditional wastewater
approach</header><text>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 id="idbc671274-2163-48c4-967b-50ecfe2d30d4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>collection sewers;</text>
</clause><clause id="id8188850f-e9c8-4c30-ad99-92e4961805cc"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a centralized treatment
plant using biological, physical, or chemical treatment processes; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id5e93349c-d98c-48cd-ac37-fae7aab3811e"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a direct point source
discharge to surface water.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="iddbd36537-dbec-42c0-a53b-0c1d5b22c20e"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Priority
system</header><text>In providing financial assistance from the water pollution
control revolving fund of the State, the State shall establish a priority
system that—</text>
<subparagraph id="idcb974f05-1564-48c1-86ea-75a32677a9da"><enum>(A)</enum><text>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 id="idd6da4234-2e92-42af-80de-59c048204425"><enum>(B)</enum><text>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><subparagraph id="idd7d58369-464d-458d-9f46-a162fd7bed6d"><enum>(C)</enum><text>provides for public
notice and opportunity to comment on the establishment of the priority system
and the summary under subparagraph (D); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idc2beb9dc-d808-4541-8169-231d2fb055e6"><enum>(D)</enum><text>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 id="idca4a20ed-0584-48f5-b866-4c250a47ccef"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the priority assigned to
each project under the priority system of the State; and</text>
</clause><clause id="ida7f1b9c0-3305-4725-83e7-cf6c59a5c795"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the funding schedule for
each project, to the extent the information is available.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id0013da6f-eef4-4074-b738-c3009662ad5c"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Weight given to
applications</header><text>After determining project priorities under
subparagraph (2), the State shall give greater weight to an application for
assistance if the application includes such information as the State determines
to be necessary and contains—</text>
<subparagraph id="id27b67be3-6410-402c-832f-990d69559dd7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a description of utility
management best practices undertaken by a treatment works applying for
assistance, including—</text>
<clause id="id7a8c6d51-54cd-4467-a524-a6a6950ca5e3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>an inventory of assets,
including a description of the condition of those assets;</text>
</clause><clause id="id84004c3d-c8bb-4566-b75b-4c2fc1cf362a"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a schedule for
replacement of the assets;</text>
</clause><clause id="id1a6b7b64-1813-4448-b16f-9b7b4ee15add"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>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; and</text>
</clause><clause id="idb96cbaa4-9fb4-47b0-ac66-a93b9830bb08"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>a review of options for
restructuring the treatment works;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idcf7ca0f1-a8fa-4164-b637-c9bf0635747b"><enum>(B)</enum><text>approaches other than a
traditional wastewater approach that treat or minimize sewage or urban
stormwater discharges using—</text>
<clause id="idf983ad90-0d62-4018-9636-b758c55af7f8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>decentralized or
distributed stormwater controls;</text>
</clause><clause id="idd5cb87c7-43b6-4be0-bba7-1f1ca20e5378"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>advanced decentralized
wastewater treatment;</text>
</clause><clause id="id09fd0202-2a0a-4d4a-99cf-9572e8c53382"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>low-impact development
technologies and nonstructural approaches;</text>
</clause><clause id="ide41f6e23-dba5-4232-999b-2382e349dd84"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>stream buffers;</text>
</clause><clause id="id8cc4bc01-c3b8-4155-8372-4fd24cb98d2e"><enum>(v)</enum><text>wetland restoration and
enhancement;</text>
</clause><clause id="idc7482b47-3b0c-47e3-866a-ee5300b104a0"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>actions to minimize the
quantity of and direct connections to impervious surfaces;</text>
</clause><clause id="idf00c3fc1-35aa-42f5-a605-7212df0d7911"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>soil and vegetation, or
other permeable materials;</text>
</clause><clause id="id7db0808b-ad53-43e3-9da3-341832dc344e"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>actions that increase
efficient water use, water conservation, or water reuse; or</text>
</clause><clause id="idd906265b-a531-4b5a-ad8f-5f8582122832"><enum>(ix)</enum><text>actions that increase
energy efficiency or reduce energy consumption at a treatment works;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6870b51a-366f-4c9d-89c5-558f947b923a"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a demonstration of
consistency with State, regional, and municipal watershed plans, water
conservation and efficiency plans, or integrated water resource management
plans;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idd5489a26-fcd9-4625-914c-f4859119a9e6"><enum>(D)</enum><text>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>
<clause id="id1d8e4a1e-c6e9-4b3b-add9-d2a7ad46b3f5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the State, in the case of
a permit program approved under section 402, determines will meet permit
requirements; or</text>
</clause><clause id="id8a7c7e6a-605a-46e9-8856-47ad530c987b"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the Administrator
determines are measurably superior, as compared to regulatory standards;
or</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id15995fd5-1620-46f6-8bf7-de8de1de2ba1"><enum>(E)</enum><text>projects that address
adverse environmental
conditions.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9ab90f8b-e42e-4ce0-8d1d-9559b24d033d" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>106.</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 104(a)(1)) is amended by
adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6acc2af1-08f4-4626-8242-a582ef907785" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcc18d614-dac4-4e34-8cb6-b9c26eaba976"><enum>(k)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfer of funds</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2eeeb6d4-462f-41ff-a776-1c9571286873"><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="id7ff0937f-e424-44ee-b205-8504e132ce1b"><enum>(A)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id7c7a2f33-e23d-4bfa-b714-10fe8dddebb8"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reserve not more than the greater
of—</text>
<subclause changed="added" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7478d728-bdf2-4d8e-b7c6-f324e9ec3c4a" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">33 percent of a capitalization grant made
under this title; or</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="added" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id26e1374d-8814-434b-ab5a-deb5d2383d4d" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">33 percent of a capitalization grant made
under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12);
and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause changed="added" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4accc74c-d4ac-4ed7-b965-48b596da093a" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">add the reserved funds 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="idcfb020ae-8fad-4828-b22e-ab51e0c59f54"><enum>(B)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idc8538720-b380-47e1-be47-7e5904d0dc4b"><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 changed="added" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfec55de7-974a-49b5-9b33-9eb243df850a" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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="ida884b93a-94d3-4588-8f18-3a8afa2e647e"><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="idea2f906c-12dc-435e-8e4f-c46fe2ae3adf" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>107.</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 106) is amended by adding
at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id207bb6db-64e7-4e91-90be-0558dc4bb5c2" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd18df60e-10e9-4835-8fda-655049c75a4b"><enum>(l)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Noncompliance</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb2de751e-63c1-42b0-9ce1-0b5b1da90d88"><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="id74db439f-9fb1-4b0a-b551-2e7ba3d8ea64"><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="idd06c437f-39a5-4b37-9a66-82eb61c83fe5"><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="id4babec79-6ee2-422f-a816-8e071a32b4c1"><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="id5071744b-25ee-4170-bf0a-4ef4d4837013" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>108.</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 107) is amended by adding
at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id956ee476-d4d7-4600-b264-ef8f1576c516" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8fabe5a9-658b-405f-90d6-b488e6da204e"><enum>(m)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Negotiation of contracts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For communities with populations of more
than 10,000 individuals, 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>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfd91364b-7457-4c85-aa7a-23f8bf63a1ff"><enum>(1)</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>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3fb411fa-65db-437b-99fa-e6e7d3c96cac"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an equivalent State qualifications-based
requirement (as determined by the Governor of the
State).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaad08f8c-2604-4dc1-b8a1-281a3cc30730" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>109.</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 subsections (a) and (b) and
inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7cbf7cf8-fe6b-4cc4-b3a1-4e2fd30da7a3" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id927d59f0-334a-4463-a790-41cffd704a20"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subject to subsection (b)(2), amounts authorized to be
appropriated to carry out this section for each of fiscal years 2010 through
2014 shall be allotted among States by the Administrator in accordance with the
allotment values specified in the following table:</text>
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<row><entry align="center" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="1">State</entry><entry align="center" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="1">Allotment
value</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Alabama</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.012860</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Alaska</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Arizona</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.010247</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Arkansas</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">California</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.079629</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Colorado</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.010164</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Connecticut</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.014150</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Delaware</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">District of Columbia</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.005000</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Florida</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.044139</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Georgia</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.012825</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Hawaii</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.008048</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Idaho</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Illinois</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.048540</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Indiana</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.024633</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Iowa</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.010266</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Kansas</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.009129</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Kentucky</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.012025</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Louisiana</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.013465</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Maine</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007829</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Maryland</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.025129</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Massachusetts</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.025754</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Michigan</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.033487</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Minnesota</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.020385</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Mississippi</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.009112</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Missouri</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.028037</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Montana</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Nebraska</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.008023</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Nevada</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">New Hampshire</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">New Jersey</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.046117</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">New Mexico</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">New York</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.103531</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">North Carolina</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.019007</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">North Dakota</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Ohio</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.054722</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Oklahoma</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.008171</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Oregon</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.012456</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Pennsylvania</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.041484</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Rhode Island</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">South Carolina</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">South Dakota</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Tennessee</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.011019</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Texas</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.037664</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Utah</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Vermont</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Virginia</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.020698</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Washington</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.017588</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">West Virginia</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.011825</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Wisconsin</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.022844</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Wyoming</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.007500</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Puerto Rico</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.005000</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Territories</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">0.002500</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id82f3ad04-84d0-4459-a0cf-6be224e6959f"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reservation of funds</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id15ae0795-ea35-4006-bf54-c315ba342b20"><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
to carry out planning under sections 205(j) and 303(e) an amount equal to the
greater of—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida71150b8-b20d-4126-8074-00ade66ede22"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 percent of the sums allotted to the State
under this section for the fiscal year; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc7c8da6c-2975-4448-a7bd-2c91fd7ab408"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$100,000.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id36ea3e3a-e638-4a85-aaa6-e87467e487ad"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Operator training;
Indian tribes</header><text>Of the total amount of funds made available to
carry out this title, before allotting funds in accordance with subsection (a),
for fiscal year 2009 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Administrator—</text>
<subparagraph id="id732DF1B58D9E437FB0CA6A8AEC1F1F0C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>may reserve not more than
$5,000,000 to carry out the objectives described in section 104(g); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5095B308E129414083AB253B82C9C15E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall allocate 1.5
percent to Indian tribes (as defined in section
518(h)).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id79b70256-ad79-4071-8334-335439452e14" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>110.</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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide0e2f776-d79d-43f5-9dfc-50fcc3e2881d" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5f1a9add-f8c2-465d-9235-7535635e6213" 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="id408ecf06-efa3-4ccf-bfb8-8f7190351af9"><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="id37ca3f2f-199e-426f-959d-ccfd36ee653f"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$3,200,000,000 for each of fiscal years
2010 and 2011;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0aac5118-37f8-4fe8-8d9c-f653686f6000"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$3,600,000,000 for fiscal year 2012;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc7b8f2e6-529d-4219-9886-fa903f80a4f4"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$4,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2013;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id99bf2a75-d503-4426-88c0-fdeea5ef4327"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$6,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2014.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcfac6a95-de43-48e8-9d15-aa96845945de"><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="id9BD5DD1E277547B5A48CAD106DD984B2"><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="id2ed24cfa-fe1b-42c9-9713-3153678a277a" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>111.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sewer overflow control grants</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id517eba72-009d-4f5b-acc9-ea34089e2bf9"><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="id984845f4-69fd-4435-a32a-4dcde2cbeed9"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb33279e1-b057-4212-a569-bb2e7321909d" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id24c41373-ce04-45f9-ab36-ea18a4c766c0"><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="id80047af6-5d3c-4c4f-a521-11fbd468d550"><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="id7a07d946-9789-4e5f-8806-b05e21c72e62"><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="id4b4af053-3477-406b-9dc8-8e3cc17d8339"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsections (e) through (g) and
inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idab5ec0fe-518d-47b1-bcd3-19c8c7008e93" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide0e79dfa-99e7-4c7b-80a9-8b2d16f23e6b"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative requirements</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4d891e84-87c6-49aa-81b7-88689225ace2"><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="id409d9ad6-ad45-47ad-8a01-60a3c9f9c70e"><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="idc01bd252-a07b-45ce-bb68-cb81a2016912"><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="id88ae290d-55ab-4948-bdc9-a5b403c16fe4"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$250,000,000 for fiscal year 2010;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6884f8e3-f179-485c-9bab-c4eb14e1c877"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$300,000,000 for fiscal year 2011;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id51464319-20e1-471a-afb7-0aa727e8c5ec"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$350,000,000 for fiscal year 2012;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfe30c5da-95c1-4697-9c96-f63642509db9"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$400,000,000 for fiscal year 2013;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf08e1d1f-fefd-4436-8655-09792ec30dc5"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$500,000,000 for fiscal year 2014.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide97b8906-9024-4a2e-b312-731549d09c44"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Allocation of funds</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8c869fe0-6c55-4ecf-92b7-1cb0981f7036"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fiscal year 2010 and 2011</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For each of fiscal years 2010 and 2011,
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="id96b3c9c3-10b8-4b62-b027-8df4323a8a3b"><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="id51bf2c8b-2ece-4cf2-a37d-44b8358e580b"><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="id32d0418e-c91a-4851-9231-f1712c08c104"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">nonstructural, low-impact
development;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8bb2a6da-b7dd-4f64-a11d-cb8cc497968c"><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="id8660e04a-a1a1-41e7-9288-43352b1037b6"><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="id7843e2ab-69ae-4e2e-b033-1ad20ac96077"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fiscal year 2012 and
thereafter</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year
2012 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="id85d3a2f5-b2ca-4ab4-b5a0-c22717c63971"><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="idb624488f-346e-4338-bee1-e07658f5fc94"><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="id583c3f78-a58b-4ae3-8620-ae62d0645d9b"><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="id54b30701-621b-4159-8a2d-63ffdb9a2262"><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="idfdcb93ba-ecfb-4183-a4c1-0813f6612745"><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>2011</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3f11271d-c4b4-444c-b201-ad9e582e6ced" 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="idc0597332-bee5-45f2-bbf3-3bb05885b319"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator 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="id77971a6b-7513-4f69-a51c-9967f8ec3c2d"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Project selection</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2534d3ae-b39e-41df-848d-538028ab5294"><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="id60e33198-d1f3-4cce-bbb9-70acc9c50f99"><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="id302ab79c-adb5-46b7-b168-958c25c8d76d"><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="id503f08a5-c476-45ba-a6e2-05a61d31842f"><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="idace61a0c-3623-4f02-892a-65cdfa23a664"><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="id3b2c76da-8b74-48e0-a402-0a2602e892b0"><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="idd13dd2ad-4520-421d-b46e-07c868fa214b"><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="id06de3c56-5418-4bb0-aa42-343840a66912"><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="ida6d4dc66-2636-4de3-92c7-1c9e29df8c6c"><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="id1bbf20c1-e8d7-41be-92dc-ad27ddc8c302"><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="id37f05724-93b3-4182-893c-20e261aea451"><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="idb2fc7535-4591-4c53-bd8b-34981d0e2d67"><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 2010 through 2014.</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="id0c75b22f-f7f9-48f4-a9df-8c7de7609b7b"><enum>201.</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="id3023ba9e-72da-467e-bbdd-aafe08e7c5fb"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id324ea918-b731-4b0b-aeae-d0f74aaf5a7e" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id583fbb0e-1cc7-4ab4-95e9-e48993162beb"><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="ide9aaa3cf-704a-4ab0-88bf-f63c570a0f3b"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1cd0dbbf-2b19-49da-83a3-060e0a093e74" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95d22c3e-eec2-45c9-80a3-a40fc728408d"><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="id906ed16c-67cb-4e29-898d-de72035c5159"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9406625d-08ae-4f42-8e8f-e386e050957a" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id27c542b5-c4ca-4a45-a58a-2269dedee910"><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="id2ea17d07-ba49-4769-89f3-c03890876fbc"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbb1c7623-cb34-499b-add0-0b0207a82531" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb1c435c0-69a7-465d-8920-143aa4447a9d"><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="id63c2bb66-ba73-434e-9e5f-ec9eaec2fe25"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2cb487b0-9931-49b2-8a28-33c2436927d2" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id47d8c617-e53f-4571-a97d-ba4049dc778d"><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, in consultation with the State, are qualified
and will be the most effective at assisting small systems.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd64dd6ba-c1b2-4389-8fa4-768f04036d02"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Wells and well systems</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6f869780-4883-4729-be3e-79b834d8964c"><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="id39fd0594-420d-4538-9366-8ff45474798d"><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="id04fac22d-62fb-43c6-be56-8c3b27d3cdc0"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">training and education;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6d6061d7-7154-4671-a127-9f3a0f3c699d"><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="idd32514ab-4ae7-41f6-8824-2aa9b60bf8ff"><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="id6ee3cd22-907c-416d-b5a7-ea4125a3496a"><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="id11f0169d-be84-405a-a15e-30cdccedbe91"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are qualified; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id539a1928-32b9-40a9-84c5-dbe75cac9eec"><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="id74a43fb1-ea84-4329-bdd9-bbc1f88a5813"><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—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd27271d5-c24d-47dd-8469-a6e29da954d1"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$7,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7e7509eb-c59e-4bc2-808b-7a4d7d4a02f0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$7,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2011
through 2014.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id79a8b944-ecc9-4890-929f-43577e65b61c"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funding</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide1dd8f3e-dac2-4fdb-bfbc-4b3d467f3b77"><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 2010 through
2014.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id94e80941-6593-4b43-995c-2134fa3f2bc7"><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="id02e03fba-aa52-4435-ae49-fc12386156f6"><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 id="id70DBE130FFE94E18A4043EACE9BB4BF5"><enum>202.</enum><header>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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id88E781B614674F23A630A80F336641FC" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="ID8f913c3eacb24ab9b04f0e29986e5ab7"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Labor
standards</header>
<paragraph id="IDf4d6dbfb51ca4f7a8b44d5350b447b6b"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>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 id="IDe7813ef8904e4eb789d711c6710b2b30"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Authority of Secretary
of Labor</header><text>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 id="idF1BD08068CD34164A84EAA2BEDE3F4C1"><enum>203.</enum><header>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="id28d3163b-5bdf-4565-a151-9153247fe78f"><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="idcaec604e-3078-4588-a617-5b9686e97178"><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="ideb0c6aad-92f5-4571-8190-317b3af44775"><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="id5f95055a-7fa8-4dc2-8de2-43c7f4c7c03d"><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,
or distribution facilities of public water systems or provide for capital
projects (excluding any expenditure for operations and maintenance) to upgrade
the security of public water systems</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0910b28d-28aa-4cb1-a5cf-47bbe2d3a386"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (B) (as
designated by paragraph (1)) the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9d3b4a78-80f9-4772-b31d-82872c8f056b" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id973f51ad-de96-4fad-aa32-1790a34b35aa"><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 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="id1287056a-b5b9-4e20-afba-63713f7a787f" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>204.</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="idf7b19137-d8ef-454c-a5d2-1cdb966bd217"><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="id2d232270-8afe-42d4-a85f-2321cad3e8c4"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting
the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id509b9c53-a49e-4bd7-9781-2d3cd75535b5" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id255d8836-fe3b-446e-8a71-a7dcc9fe8eab"><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="id486e7c05-0afe-4993-884f-94479b7815e2"><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="id377397eb-da96-4f16-a3a6-c1b79daec079"><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="ida513b1f9-f8ef-49a0-9183-3d09e60136b6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are necessary to ensure compliance with
this title (including requirements for filtration);</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7cc78cbc-0c7f-4f1a-9355-c62871de9606"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assist systems most in need on a
per-household basis according to State affordability criteria; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id7a04609f-2ec9-4725-9d85-5c675060a393"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>improve the
sustainability of systems.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id897a4d77-97ed-4dd8-be8b-b996a6cf9f6b"><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 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 and contains—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida81f09cc-312c-4a98-8e19-227213062694"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of utility management best
practices undertaken by a treatment works applying for assistance,
including—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7371D673967A4EE4BDAF49DC66B8F942"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an inventory of assets, including a
description of the condition of the assets;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8c1914aa-ac31-402e-b13b-3a4960baaf44"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a schedule for replacement of
assets;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8ff56096-08fd-48fc-b0e9-77ec690ae76d"><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; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3c5ffc6f-1421-4cc3-bc59-4c6f8d58e582"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a review of options for restructuring the
public water system;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id70eb4ed6-ca15-4e4f-957d-466c4fdefbfb"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">demonstration of consistency with State,
regional, and municipal watershed plans;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id637e6f23-d314-4c32-ac7f-ad4ce7184997"><enum>(iii)</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); and</text>
</clause><clause id="id784962a6-8fc4-4846-aa78-136133f5a2c7"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>approaches to improve
the sustainability of the system, including—</text>
<subclause id="id779419ee-c709-4fc7-88f2-322653febc37"><enum>(I)</enum><text>water efficiency or
conservation, including the rehabilitation or replacement of existing leaking
pipes;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="ide84d4a80-2250-4fb8-bac2-b26ad744046f"><enum>(II)</enum><text>use of reclaimed
water;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idec813767-5dcb-4300-968a-1024d720a6f7"><enum>(III)</enum><text>actions to increase
energy efficiency; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id349D0942401F4513BCFBB586AD4A5E3A"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>implementation of source
water protection plans.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id029a9238-0c1e-41e5-a0f0-777fc8a980bb"><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="id4288122b-d201-4749-93ec-0250a7646f8b" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>205.</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="idfdba445f-360c-4fe7-a78a-75145b9f9166" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>206.</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="idb231e2d1-dc2f-4177-8159-ec1d5b61d635"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">paragraph (2)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide25c3fc8-ca55-4f5d-9d16-a992930016e8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by striking
<quote>up to 4 percent of the funds allotted to the State under this
section</quote> and inserting <quote>, for each fiscal year, an amount that
does not exceed the sum of the amount of any fees collected by the State for
use in covering reasonable costs of administration of programs under this
section, regardless of the source, and an amount equal to the greatest of
$400,000, <fraction>1/5</fraction> percent of the current valuation of the
fund, or 6 percent of all grant awards to the fund under this section for the
fiscal year,</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf9dc542a-2703-4936-a3e4-35d190296342"><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="id377b69fc-ce7d-4f6a-b6ee-1dd2026909de"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id43f20b03-62a2-4abd-9610-228dabc8bd7f" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2cec66ac-1789-4664-9c76-16f1575747e7"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfer of funds</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida77dd30d-ada7-44fc-81cb-550b50a83e6d"><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="id6f219e5c-718a-4d03-9411-b4179e82d357"><enum>(i)</enum><subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id8c80a245-5f1d-45e9-ba70-47591ac2b154"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reserve not more than the greater
of—</text>
<item changed="added" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6a064d67-21e1-4a7a-b018-bbc52e5bd06a" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">33 percent of a capitalization grant made
under this section; or</text>
</item><item changed="added" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbf31a06a-f59d-4ed6-9506-0c3c8381c4f1" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">33 percent of a capitalization grant made
under section 601 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C.
1381);</text>
</item></subclause><subclause changed="added" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e65187f-2bc4-4441-be03-4c982b3197c2" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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="id4ed89d1b-9f96-4559-b153-478f99551ff2"><enum>(ii)</enum><subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id81326dcb-98a8-4415-8f2c-39a3d934b746"><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 changed="added" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id83ace4a8-9de8-4444-a199-376111067d3c" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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="idd69a628c-f3ae-4965-86ed-8109f1683aa9"><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="idfd458bca-63bf-4d4e-9413-0a69a77fdfa1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>207.</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="idd10ce5f3-5e51-4ad8-a4d2-225c3e00fa0d" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>208.</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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idacf0ca4f-e7d8-4329-ac17-3209ed799d9a" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id88a009c3-ec88-4ec7-a7b9-bb54ddb00852"><enum>(m)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id78f3c917-01fc-4e0a-ab1c-f860fdc155da"><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="idbcc3dc61-945e-42bc-815b-aaf5102f1195"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$1,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2010;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4e55cb93-d36c-473c-870f-b2d9133dd2d0"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$2,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years
2011 and 2012;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id966e944d-1e60-48ce-8cd5-b7c14e9cba5e"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$3,200,000,000 for fiscal year 2013;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbeb3c762-8b63-4eee-8853-b1af3ae7edce"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$6,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2014.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id187899db-9c19-4a9b-95e2-0b530bb8be93"><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="idb6c14d39-06ff-4bc0-a2b7-b1359dc62041"><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="ide4fb2b8f-443e-4189-969e-47bb56eee310" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>209.</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 changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id39481192-30cf-486d-998c-b4f00791a4c1" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id68f774d2-d1eb-4203-b97d-132e81bb6fbb"><enum>(s)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Negotiation of contracts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For communities with populations of more
than 10,000 individuals, 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>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb981ad33-1c37-4899-a6b2-e74512693016"><enum>(1)</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>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb31e3479-69fc-45e2-953a-690cc0f7f065"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an equivalent State qualifications-based
requirement (as determined by the Governor of the
State).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1a8bb8e1-88e5-4fad-96aa-7a30edb8fcb6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>210.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Critical drinking water infrastructure
projects</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id33316ec7-ac59-4f0f-bffd-fd36b228ae71"><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 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="id15f51498-ec5f-44de-a9e9-7c034fcf26d8"><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="idae8fbd51-55fa-4577-9ecc-e239dfb398dc"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develop alternative water sources;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id685a50b7-28e5-4a57-9613-72c9eb745464"><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="ida1f1479f-1ad6-4697-ba3a-86b1764365e5"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assist a community water system—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id502dd4dd-2d62-4d7e-96c6-84ea537c69df"><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="id771e4cdd-8f8e-40ff-b03e-d2e61f4b281b"><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="idb400bbfb-b2f6-4eef-bc72-705f150cc522"><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="id71ffcf9e-072e-4215-a597-95a223b3a693"><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="id7f2c41b2-905a-4386-b912-35bc0911eef6"><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="id039a0a55-4e19-4695-8e2a-3495181fb439"><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="id18366c60-ff4e-4b7b-a196-a86d4603e2fb"><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="idb348a668-8abb-4c52-8db3-a9aa0723ecba"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a disadvantaged community; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3693e276-2db8-44c0-b913-35a5863f8647"><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="idd2bef679-cd55-4fd8-a902-1955225dc3d4"><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="id342f1d79-da4d-4816-aef6-9ad68a74c812"><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="ideb668558-079b-449b-b72b-babf9aefbb20"><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="idcccb4474-445d-455e-b2e1-c60e82200eb3"><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="idadc5cf2c-4131-47d5-8ee3-4b12b860b8cf"><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="id3cfcb291-eee4-41f3-b4b6-e9deb3e0afa8"><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="idfe195f59-2e2b-4984-a324-e2754ac7ea7f"><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="id4ad4d288-5b2a-4b58-b420-2951f28f66d3"><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—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3b52204b-99c6-4db5-bd4d-c88a59feb0a2"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$230,000,000 for fiscal year 2010;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfe25bffb-fd17-4395-89d8-f96994eee0ec"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$300,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011
through 2014.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e2b175e-ed07-42b1-8e03-fde495fda65f"><enum>211.</enum><header>Reducing lead in
drinking water</header>
<subsection id="id89da5ff6-7012-4165-8e81-e0376c483cbd"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section:</text>
<paragraph id="id18b567da-e8e6-4e84-9915-5f2e12405e97"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Eligible
entity</header><text>The term <term>eligible entity</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="idcb0039ea-5604-4ed5-b994-29f719561c24"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a community water system
(as defined in section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C.
300f));</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id604f684b-17ea-461d-9576-f9a1b078fa27"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a system located in an
area governed by an Indian Tribe (as defined in that section);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9b65207b-ae11-465c-90c2-a94f856a7df3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a nontransient
noncommunity water system;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7e3c487d-edb5-440a-9273-3618b2e646a9"><enum>(D)</enum><text>a qualified nonprofit
organization, as determined by the Administrator; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id676493c3-df70-41c8-bc95-51350849cfe6"><enum>(E)</enum><text>a municipality or State,
interstate, or intermunicipal agency.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id397e7fa6-3bfb-4a5d-9bea-afa86ba588ec"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Lead reduction
project</header><text>The term <term>lead reduction project</term> means a
project or activity the primary purpose of which is to reduce the level of lead
in water for human consumption by—</text>
<subparagraph id="id7800dbc0-c71a-4d87-80b7-1c211cd67d5a"><enum>(A)</enum><text>replacement of publicly
owned lead service lines;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide90ece2a-1698-41ff-bc40-9d39097f5418"><enum>(B)</enum><text>capital costs, testing,
planning, or other relevant activities, as determined by the Administrator, to
identify and address conditions (including corrosion control) that contribute
to increased lead levels in water for human consumption;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id71381da5-ee45-407a-b879-05fb5c53e4b6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>assistance to low-income
homeowners to replace privately owned service lines, pipes, fittings, or
fixtures that contain lead; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id61b0ac43-b7eb-42cb-ba18-4b229704d538"><enum>(D)</enum><text>education of consumers
regarding measures to reduce exposure to lead from drinking water or other
sources.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id4314a11c-b0b6-4cba-a2c4-4db41846eed3"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Low-income</header><text>The
term <term>low-income</term>, with respect to an individual provided assistance
under this section, has such meaning as may be given the term by the head of
the municipality or State, interstate, or intermunicipal agency with
jurisdiction over the area to which assistance is provided.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id073d6fbd-9257-476e-be29-311249df1cf5"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Municipality</header><text>The
term <term>municipality</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="id8e6d6209-ebe2-448b-af24-38805beda300"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a city, town, borough,
county, parish, district, association, or other public entity established by,
or pursuant to, applicable State law; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ideb204c62-ec33-4ac5-a9a4-66713f9d7cfe"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an Indian tribe (as
defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance
Act (25 U.S.C. 450b)).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id2ae82657-588d-40d7-a40a-20ca781a03dc"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Grant program</header>
<paragraph id="idfcecdbac-2764-47c8-b06f-a67a4faf9e72"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>Not
later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator
shall establish a grant program to provide assistance to eligible entities for
lead reduction projects in the United States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id6cc30a19-d109-4130-a729-31dbee5c23ec"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Evaluation</header><text>In
providing assistance under this section, the Administrator shall
evaluate—</text>
<subparagraph id="id2528e8c4-b548-4679-b3f9-ba0c18e6f871"><enum>(A)</enum><text>whether an eligible
entity applying for assistance has taken steps to identify the source of lead
in water for human consumption; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb62c588b-1d3e-4526-be67-46813af7fefb"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the means by which the
proposed lead reduction project would reduce lead levels in the applicable
water system.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idb22cb704-5b2f-4c51-9839-9c14bb1978d1"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Priority
application</header><text>In providing grants under this subsection, the
Administrator shall give priority to an eligible entity that—</text>
<subparagraph id="id9a61430d-03c8-4454-9a80-9a97d932b673"><enum>(A)</enum><text>carries out a lead
reduction project at a public water system or nontransient noncommunity water
system that has exceeded the lead action level established by the Administrator
at any time during the 3-year period preceding the date of submission of the
application of the eligible entity;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idd580fb3f-9c8a-4687-b51d-dc38813fb046"><enum>(B)</enum><text>addresses lead levels in
water for human consumption at a school, daycare, or other facility that
primarily serves children or another vulnerable human subpopulation; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id52b8fd16-64f1-48b7-9de1-8ab255a9ca84"><enum>(C)</enum><text>addresses such priority
criteria as the Administrator may establish, consistent with the goal of
reducing lead levels of concern.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id23513477-ad06-4179-8dda-aae6b02d5b22"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Cost sharing</header>
<subparagraph id="id4d3285f2-2da8-40b8-95e1-1781ef58585b"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subject to subparagraph (B), 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>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3f44248d-703c-4f2c-9421-ecf51298492a"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>The
Administrator may reduce or eliminate the non-Federal share under subparagraph
(A) for reasons of affordability, as the Administrator determines to be
appropriate.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id5405da35-45fe-4de0-9e3e-f97317b6d1bd"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Low-income
assistance</header>
<subparagraph id="idc8464624-154b-4a05-88c5-05cb7814b896"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C), an eligible entity
may use a grant provided under this subsection to provide assistance to
low-income homeowners to carry out lead reduction projects.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id55f09bcd-70af-4cf3-9c59-3065084c0b02"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Low-income assistance
cap</header><text>Of the funds made available to carry out this section, not
more than $5,000,000 may be allocated to provide assistance to low-income
homeowners under this paragraph for any fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3441a991-43c9-4834-8261-7c92474dbf8c"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>The
amount of a grant provided to a low-income homeowner under this paragraph shall
not exceed $5,000.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id96ead8db-9fd8-443c-bb98-28d7a541f00d"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Special consideration
for lead service line replacement</header><text>In carrying out lead service
line replacement using a grant under this subsection, an eligible entity
shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="id6d0f8331-b06c-475f-aaa3-29b964e46e3d"><enum>(A)</enum><text>notify customers of the
replacement of any publicly owned portion of the lead service line;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id92213529-47d3-477d-a9cf-7427b55e5f2f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>offer to replace the
privately owned portion of the lead service line at the cost of
replacement;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2469978d-ec24-42b6-8a5a-db62bb533b86"><enum>(C)</enum><text>recommend measures to
avoid exposure to short-term increases in lead levels following a partial lead
service line replacement; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="iddb65036e-9e6d-4b15-83b2-872b3af14a0b"><enum>(D)</enum><text>demonstrate that the
eligible entity has considered multiple options for reducing lead in drinking
water, including an evaluation of options for corrosion control.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idbbecacb9-9d79-4ad1-8664-95d887f82cae"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this section $60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Miscellaneous</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id27e5d015-824f-4072-9fc1-80358c1bce2e" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of Academy</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title, the term <term>Academy</term>
means the National Academy of Sciences.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2ef57810-a1a3-4ffe-82f6-800a3785b0cf" 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="id6c36e516-ca33-478c-acf7-28eda02dd945"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Innovative technology and alternative
approaches grant program</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e088f5b-dfa1-4ae7-a105-f972b4262ca1"><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 provide
grants to, and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, research
institutions, institutions of higher education, National Laboratories, and
other appropriate entities (including consortia of such institutions and
entities), through a competitive process, in accordance with the plan developed
under subsection (b), for research regarding, and development of the use of,
innovative and alternative technologies to improve water quality, drinking
water supply, or water use efficiency and conservation.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb70c560c-f724-472a-904f-5adebc2905d9"><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="ide128c450-1f1d-4c15-8f04-4a90c1c44cd5"><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="id63eb0954-eac4-46ed-8059-3594ac99e214"><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="id424709ae-2d03-48ef-8d26-91c0a536e6af"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">source water protection;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id997f11c0-b0a3-42a2-a623-f79d6bd58b2b"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water use reduction;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id462e7fd6-2879-4b38-99aa-8cec08638d7c"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water collection, storage, and treatment
and reuse of rainwater, stormwater, and graywater;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id24aa8b19-0cda-4d59-9b35-7afaf5ed602d"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>identification of
behavioral, social, and economic barriers to achieving greater water use
efficiency;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="idcc7aaf7a-09f8-4391-ba03-fb4e3ca9f022"><enum>(v)</enum><text>use of watershed planning
directed toward water quality, conservation, and supply;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id3cb7e675-46bf-4514-b786-2faa81fda33f"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>actions to reduce energy
consumption;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="idcda59616-6322-4a91-acbb-270e7d18158c"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>water treatment;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3edcd936-c58e-4d0b-ace9-e32fb528b68d"><enum>(viii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water distribution and wastewater
collection systems;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9a1aba2c-62b3-4a12-84f1-da5ecf1df822"><enum>(ix)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">desalination; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbe34969f-d897-429d-aae1-c3f0e5e10e58"><enum>(x)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water security;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id652a1368-0692-427c-ae28-67e99f493443"><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="iddaa97ff7-c650-4c1c-935d-570d1086d597"><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="ide4cd21d6-2645-4c6a-9d6f-a4ae16d6782c"><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="id0c48056f-ee58-4bb8-8285-67a7ec81754b"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">system design;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfb0b8921-30bb-44da-a6af-118b085b21b3"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">nonstructural alternatives;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id26f85557-e5c5-405f-b478-d5a43dd4dbd8"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">decentralized approaches;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id971f81aa-60be-4f2c-bc78-e960a4398914"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">stormwater and wastewater reuse;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3c81619b-7cca-4f98-880a-1883767b31bc"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water use efficiency and
conservation;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id58ff1e5b-5c47-402c-b66d-927275c1ce63"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>actions to reduce
energy consumption;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id2afb1abe-dcb4-4279-8c33-a0b4eb358991"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>technologies to
extract energy from wastewater; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbdb47300-8bbd-42a9-b024-7adfb4ad2707"><enum>(ix)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">wastewater security;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id153c670b-2e1f-49dc-9c18-efce53b210f9"><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="id9f391ad5-b9c7-48c2-ba4f-a7aecc9d0fe6"><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="idbaa0b6f4-99cc-41e2-a650-ef4f96d96087"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to maintain a clearinghouse of technologies
and management approaches developed under this subsection and subsections (c)
and (d) at a research consortium or institute or other appropriate
organization, as determined by the Administrator.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2569ab78-4598-4ce9-a139-90dd4a753235"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Factors for consideration</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In planning and implementing the program
under this subsection, the Administrator shall take into consideration—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id53d36dd5-bb70-482c-af6e-ab1284f23006"><enum>(A)</enum><text>research needs identified
by water resource managers, State and local governments, and other interested
parties; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="idff4d809f-dc70-428b-b2c2-351481f49dcd"><enum>(B)</enum><text>technologies and
processes likely to achieve the greatest increases in water quality, drinking
water supply, or water use efficiency and conservation.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="ida91e8bfd-fb42-4598-9c2f-e7e4e7421986"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Minority-serving
institutions</header><text>In carrying out the program under this subsection,
the Administrator—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id05b8347f-c85d-44bd-a22e-cbc49684824b"><enum>(A)</enum><text>may provide extramural
grants to institutions of higher education; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id9f42d0d0-ffb0-4d59-a920-de786c3adb0b"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall encourage
participation by minority-serving institutions.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id6b1d1b88-d251-483a-898e-424b41465488"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Strategic research
plan</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="idd8a13074-e0b2-49d2-a3a8-2892fdebb840"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of
this Act, the Administrator, in coordination with the heads of other
appropriate Federal departments and agencies, shall develop a strategic
research plan for the grant program under subsection (a).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id905885e9-fcfd-41e9-9428-ec545532c2d3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Requirements</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="ida343d826-d81c-49a0-a4ce-f70e368c1e1b"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Coordination</header><text>The
plan under paragraph (1) shall be carried out, to the maximum extent
practicable, in coordination with other research and development strategic
plans of the Environmental Protection Agency.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id9d14ee3d-9993-4814-b04c-e1501b3d5001"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The
plan under paragraph (1) shall—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="id72f544ab-9a5a-4a6b-993f-db3fc078f323"><enum>(i)</enum><text>describe, in outline
form, research goals and priorities relating to an agenda of water quality,
drinking water supply, and water use efficiency and conservation,
including—</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="idc7ad3a06-e081-4e68-8bc8-9489a45b9108"><enum>(I)</enum><text>developing innovative
water supply-enhancing processes and technologies;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="id233440a8-9d57-4122-bc71-96c0aa47e2c1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>improving existing
processes and technologies, including wastewater treatment, desalination, and
groundwater recharge and recovery schemes;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="id215ef1fd-c892-402e-801e-dfd3c8d0a3b4"><enum>(III)</enum><text>improving the
effectiveness and efficiency of nontraditional wastewater treatment practices,
including nonstructural alternatives, low-impact development techniques, and
decentralized approaches; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="idf8f7788c-6a8b-46fb-83bc-88bee12c58c8"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>exploring concepts that
extract energy from wastewater;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="idec99f710-0f9f-4a02-8859-8f35b44ec2d7"><enum>(ii)</enum><subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idabe6f9aa-51c5-4e21-acd9-979635383c3d"><enum>(I)</enum><text>identify current
Federal water-related research efforts directed toward achieving the goals of
improving water quality, water use efficiency, or water conservation or
expanding water supply; and</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="added" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" id="id1faf9f06-4e03-4a30-9ba5-b0dc3adb8c0b" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(II)</enum><text>describe the means by
which those efforts are coordinated with the program established under
subsection (a) in order to leverage resources and avoid duplication;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="id4462ac73-0020-4a56-b113-e18c9554b76a"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>take into consideration
the public health and environmental quality impacts and cost-effectiveness of
each relevant technology and approach; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id910ea481-2c2c-4d73-bf41-3637ad920f87"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>take into consideration
and incorporate, as appropriate, recommendations contained in reports and
studies conducted by Federal departments and agencies, the National Research
Council, the National Science and Technology Council, and other appropriate
entities.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id76ff10f6-38aa-492b-903a-ccab3115d30e"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Science Advisory Board
review</header><text>The Administrator shall submit the plan under paragraph
(1) to the Science Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency for
review.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id399eb6ee-5844-4e64-a0a5-d057cf067954"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Revisions</header><text>The
plan under paragraph (1) shall be revised and amended as necessary to reflect
updated scientific findings and national research priorities.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida94d0343-a214-4465-ab84-23d6e1896616"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Municipalities grant program</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6004abac-5d47-469d-804c-fcaf7d024cc8"><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="idb3928c04-1e4f-4ed1-9a64-fd90a8248c42"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a city, town, borough, county, parish,
district, association, authority, or other public entity established by, or
pursuant to, State law; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc9ed3c44-91e9-46dc-a50e-ac24494a3d07"><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="id912d4230-8fda-4bc4-88a2-9fc21735271a"><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 initial report under subsection (e)(2), the Administrator
shall establish a nationwide demonstration grant program—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id496c5f89-2624-4519-b66d-eb58d3ac6e54"><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="id22370afd-578e-4a48-b3d7-81138f47aa95"><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="idf6d68a7a-0d7c-483c-91da-3f8e10759345"><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 (5).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6309d3a0-5ac4-4016-a417-9e827f14fb1f"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A municipality that seeks to participate in
the demonstration grant program established under this subsection shall submit
to the Administrator a plan that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcdfc2b96-c03c-4fdb-b050-559a8961e715"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is developed in coordination with—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfca2aa78-b780-42d3-bfa6-0c2891f56677"><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>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2ba4a1c6-5404-468e-8ce8-e89a1075ecf2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">interested stakeholders, including
institutions of higher education and related research institutions;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbfc64cf2-84d0-4b42-b8bf-7b88dc1364aa"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">describes water impacts specific to urban
or rural areas;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1416c1fb-5613-4af3-b5c7-51675bc0605b"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes a strategy under which the
municipality, through participation in the demonstration grant program, could
effectively—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida73a0b68-c29f-4a37-88f2-80a83b70f0fb"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">address water quality or water supply
problems; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idef996ea4-3b64-4d01-af1c-d3de088e145e"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">achieve the water quality goals
that—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id416299e6-4900-424d-be24-4ea101d09b62"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">could be achieved using more traditional
methods; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8ae0efe2-523e-4845-bd82-4264b0e30f17"><enum>(II)</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>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ideb402109-b3c0-4dde-a75a-e40d1a66d3a5"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes a schedule for achieving the water
quality, water supply, or water use efficiency and conservation goals of the
municipality.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id59b957ce-372a-47e9-a241-6260c521551d"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Categories of projects</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id65e9c418-abb9-4ddd-9f8f-5790fc3e7ca0"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out the demonstration grant
program, the Administrator shall provide grants for—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide1cbb3a1-3b2f-469d-a0fc-a1569cd6491f"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">projects relating to water supply, water
quality, or water use efficiency and conservation matters described in
subsection (a)(2); and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="idfc096811-7d47-474e-b700-3a5a97fc3f65"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>subject to subparagraph
(B), not less than 2 projects for the incorporation into a building of the most
current water use efficiency and conservation technologies and designs.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id244dbdc7-eac1-41a5-8cd2-8e9545cc13ad"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Projects for
incorporation</header>
<clause commented="no" id="idb27d5e48-2b96-4dbf-9e56-6f7854ac3e6c"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Incremental cost
limitation</header><text>A grant provided under subparagraph (A)(ii) may be
used only to pay the incremental costs of incorporation into a building of a
water use efficiency and conservation technology or design.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id5bad51a7-36c2-498a-bb4d-c0757129cbd9"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Types of
buildings</header><text>Of the projects for which grants are provided under
subparagraph (A)(ii)—</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="idcd099a71-e731-4df6-8b92-6a3ff4f20296"><enum>(I)</enum><text>at least 1 shall be for a
residential building; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="id7cefca7e-fcd5-49f1-9abb-8c887ddbf319"><enum>(II)</enum><text>at least 1 shall be for
a commercial building.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="ide6a53dcf-984c-4bbd-bb63-9a1808a95c30"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Public
availability</header><text>The design of each building for which a grant is
provided under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall be made available to the public, and
each such building shall be accessible to the public for tours and educational
purposes.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8b776dd1-a9fc-4e30-b141-5ee022d30b03"><enum>(6)</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>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb1103646-b60f-42be-89b6-ec1f72d07a69"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure, to the maximum extent practicable,
that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id666d6ef5-089f-4169-99de-8b7e850ccbd4"><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>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id68d1668a-18ab-4fae-8c55-58b04df5d592"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">geographical distribution;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc6f86c79-945b-49f6-909b-a1cfe569fa4a"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">innovative technologies used for the
projects; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbb4e49b0-9f70-4b87-ad2b-2971483ec5d5"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">nontraditional approaches (including
low-impact development technologies) used for the projects; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id81d8a524-cd3d-4a86-b866-ef33d1f4dc50"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each category of project described in
paragraph (5) is adequately represented;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf2512cc8-7ca0-411e-9ab4-eafcdb464931"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">give higher priority to projects
that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2c6ac0dc-2f08-4d90-ba8a-bf21fc060a61"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">address multiple problems; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id510bf6e2-c57e-4acf-9ffa-8a175c19b0ba"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are regionally applicable;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbe91bee7-d629-4be6-ad59-4aa421363882"><enum>(C)</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>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0c7330fa-c580-4fba-b6c1-e5fc9bf824f5"><enum>(D)</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>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb65b76a3-3019-4018-9fc7-a6e6d49f6584"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cost sharing</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1c3a7a78-5d32-4ff6-9c2e-3091f9f719d1"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subparagraph (B), 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>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id410721a6-374e-4326-b142-1eef6fa2d951"><enum>(B)</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>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="ide423dc06-0a44-4adf-a76e-08a6e2ac3084"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Incorporation of
results and information</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="id25d579fe-167f-40fe-9c31-3623ed042d13"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Technology
transfer</header><text>The Administrator, taking into consideration the results
of the projects carried out using grants under subsections (a) and (c),
shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id04762e59-6422-44d6-bbcd-1f3b110881bb"><enum>(A)</enum><text>facilitate the adoption
of technologies and processes to promote increased water quality, drinking
water supply, and water use efficiency and conservation; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id94d98f1a-201c-4cbc-a8c7-ae6db7e353a3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>collect and disseminate
information, including through the establishment of a publicly accessible
clearinghouse, regarding those technologies and processes, including
information on—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="id650c8300-62e1-4315-bfd8-bb87aa0b9ed6"><enum>(i)</enum><text>incentives and
impediments to development and commercialization;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="ida0068fc7-98c5-42d5-b3b9-4d518a323715"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>best practices;
and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id5483f505-0a5d-41f6-9f41-59a933599d7c"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>anticipated increases
in water quality, drinking water supply, and water use efficiency and
conservation resulting from the implementation of specific technologies and
processes.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id3707902a-322a-4002-a7b7-12b30ca0028a"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Incorporation of
results and information</header><text>To the maximum extent practicable, the
Administrator shall incorporate the results of, and information obtained from,
successful projects under this section into other programs administered by the
Administrator.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id967bcbff-3c94-435a-8031-65d2a26cfa33"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide508bcd8-41fe-4ea5-a065-012f7b335ada"><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="id95c71662-a683-4169-8bf6-9ab6c9a9f3f6"><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 not less frequently than once every 2 years
thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Environment and
Public Works of the Senate and the Committees on Transportation and
Infrastructure and Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report
describing—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id5c0846be-0ab4-4928-936e-0b1937611685"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the findings of each
recipient of a grant under subsection (a) with respect to the identification of
any potential new technology or management approach developed by the recipient;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id748ff30b-0653-4ff1-b0f5-7ad54e248552"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the status and results of
the grant program under subsection (c).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idd521973f-46e5-47e5-a648-8d9885fbf313"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Water management study
and report</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="id5de6c9cb-5ee8-4368-a38a-314d15a0ee87"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this subsection:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id39fc73c8-71a0-4cf6-9bba-f6049e3ddf94"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Low-impact
approach</header><text>The term <term>low-impact approach</term> means a
strategy that manages rainfall at the source using decentralized microscale
controls to mimic the predevelopment hydrology of the relevant site by using a
design technique that infiltrates, filters, stores, evaporates, and detains
runoff close to the source.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="idc7bfe667-39da-4ceb-881f-fa17d59bd242"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Soft path
approach</header><text>The term <term>soft path approach</term> means a general
framework that encompasses—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="id102e107e-ad93-4003-90c2-6a23412eabeb"><enum>(i)</enum><text>increased efficiency of
water use;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="iddbdee85f-4f19-4a71-92ef-f3d991fcad5c"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>integration of water
supply, wastewater treatment, and stormwater management systems; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id93c79784-a1ff-42a3-bc19-573903ceb1d1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>protection,
restoration, and effective use of the natural capacities of ecosystems to
provide clean water.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id6120fe62-32b3-49ec-95f0-249b605196e5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Study</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id45c04212-a713-416d-8c76-a0026b6bdcc2"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of
this Act, the Administrator shall enter into an arrangement with the National
Academy of Sciences under which the Academy shall conduct a study, by not later
than 2 years after that date, of innovative, effective, and systematic
approaches for the management of water supply, wastewater, and
stormwater.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id63867706-fae2-4b8c-bec6-cabd7c54f3d9"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The
study shall—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="id68981bb8-f94b-4024-93a9-be80daa8ff10"><enum>(i)</enum><text>be based on and enhance,
to the maximum extent practicable, relevant studies previously conducted by the
Academy;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id914c42a0-91e3-4205-9af5-ec3f9cfc2396"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>focus in particular on
soft-path approaches and low-impact approaches to the management described in
subparagraph (A);</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id975ee15b-16dd-4a6a-8b46-5e3c192ea343"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>take into consideration
the costs of each approach analyzed by the study;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="idf9448857-2aa7-46fb-9563-8e5191054400"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>examine and compare the
state of research, technology development, and emerging practices in other
developed and developing countries with those in the United States;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="idb7b38fa8-6b0b-4f01-9f95-e9a81b1ae50a"><enum>(v)</enum><text>identify and evaluate
relevant system approaches for comprehensive water management, including the
interrelationship of water systems with other major systems, such as energy and
transportation systems;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id834a1b1e-7e5e-49b8-89c0-c4bd8b3e34f9"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>identify priority
research and development needs; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id4748e4f2-f751-4cfd-a306-6d464e3bddb4"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>assess implementation
needs and barriers.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="ide4065dcc-1c8c-4c98-8ee3-0881b3909fd9"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this paragraph $1,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2010 through
2012.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id4fcc4197-c410-41f2-901f-a7180f5f44d3"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Report</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="idee577971-b3c8-4cba-8174-abef14000808"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of
this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Environment and
Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Science and Technology of the
House of Representatives a report describing the key findings of the study
under paragraph (2).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id32ebb998-bc82-483c-94bc-ce2c70c92290"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Inclusions</header><text>The
report under subparagraph (A) shall include—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="id72ebe689-69e0-4215-89ed-a444d0267d9d"><enum>(i)</enum><text>an evaluation of relevant
challenges and opportunities; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="idd9caddf3-040a-4622-9edb-18090ae7d1f1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>recommendations for
innovative and integrated solutions for use as a practical reference by water
managers, planners, developers, scientists, engineers, nongovernmental
organizations, Federal departments and agencies, and regulators.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1cfe3ab0-3a78-48e8-abe8-577322466a35"><enum>(g)</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 $40,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2010 through 2014.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd3953264-3f55-4269-86c0-fdaed5bb7f7e" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>303.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agricultural watershed sustainability
technology grant program</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id34b03cea-e906-4f4e-9dd0-60f4c64bec00"><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="id539e8f6e-caae-433a-91c0-931411a1cceb"><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="id08ebe613-1583-4770-846a-1d307359cb83"><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="id4f2aa874-2253-4501-bc4a-29e26030017a"><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="id6babefdf-4756-4ea2-9c1f-8feada5d0a7a"><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="id8d312261-fcfa-42b8-9ab1-63a22f2bdf40"><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="id60b05ebd-a353-433f-8e7c-4169ea86c455"><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 of
Agriculture.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2a139252-ee84-4e78-921c-cf183a7f4d0b"><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 watershed sustainability technology pilot project that,
as determined by the Administrator—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id93228e74-ec1b-42bf-9998-5b46f5ff5f42"><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="ida2cbbf84-36a5-46cd-9a8a-f0ea7543bb15"><enum>(B)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id690e42e5-8be3-4340-885c-729cb7d8a65b"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">achieves demonstrable improvements in water
quality that meet or exceed those mandated by statutory or regulatory
requirements; or</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" commented="no" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id031e8a7f-11bc-44d7-9d7b-e994c924c346" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improves water use efficiency; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id07f4cbc1-c9c4-43f1-a0bc-2e30b4f4002c"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">will not substantially adversely affect
agricultural commodity production, yield, profitability, or any other long-term
environmental medium, including air and groundwater resources.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id791f58d7-2aa8-4679-9e9d-869cf8dac407"><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 in the United
States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbc50a6d9-ce9a-4070-8fbf-17164fcdd367"><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 or group of persons (including an irrigation district and a drainage
district) engaged in the production and sale of an agricultural commodity that
owns, or shares the ownership and risk of loss of, the agricultural
commodity.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4ef21387-e2d4-484a-a725-efa9cae5febe"><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 watershed sustainability technology revolving
fund—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id03292926-7a28-4161-ac4b-29fa5d2da413"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that is established by a State using
amounts provided under subsection (b)(1);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3dd3ba8f-c42f-4dff-8a1f-7df4cdfd0d43"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that is maintained and credited with
repayments; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbc06f1a3-7447-4beb-bbca-81ea4d746be9"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the balance of which shall be available in
perpetuity for providing financial assistance.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2eb6254a-434c-4cc0-952d-d7e35d89d27a"><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="idd72583de-9de9-4ed8-a9ca-aa0459787f88"><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 watershed sustainability technology
revolving fund.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide080c568-83f5-4e72-bee1-aebbe84cd26a"><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="id69f37436-d007-401d-b58a-073b98e50f2d"><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="id98da2f23-d473-4a88-b3c8-3ae4e541c614"><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="id30d54e9e-2da8-486a-9cb7-af2b4007deda"><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="idf7c22d1a-0a18-45f6-89fd-87a8dbf8c148"><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="id100c429a-0403-4145-8109-7dd6f7fccfd7"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Loans to producers</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9cd4f41b-23e5-4975-800b-d072fb0482fd"><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="idd20db1e2-5802-4e56-b2f6-f17f9d3937c4"><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="id0fd91d33-719b-4e13-b774-201dea14cc1e"><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="id62c3a1bf-ad81-46b7-9f1a-cd28df37113a"><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="idaca18872-fd00-4b7e-8a9d-c840abbf61b8"><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 funds are initially disbursed.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4706e947-17dd-453e-9ab7-784aa7b54693"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements for producers</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7dea4fd6-afff-49b8-9533-b97edddb24b5"><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="id9f4d3e4b-3d31-4fcc-948a-1c3d4f0484ba"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit to the State within the jurisdiction
of which the agricultural site of the producer is located an application
that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id67d99ecb-ed92-40f1-b89e-68fb14b53034"><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="ida37af895-e65a-4856-82a5-fdada3a293f6"><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="idb9fe1445-56f1-484f-90f5-6ecfdb7d1a14"><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="id3b3e4adb-0629-4d2b-9ebb-baa4de25ad82"><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="id22e34e37-b154-4fdc-b3ca-58b1e0e460aa"><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="ida9ecf456-241b-4c15-af8a-5e1d0def22a0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>304.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State revolving fund review
process</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9D768B5E2AF1486F8B19BDB289342528"><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—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4df7fb56-f706-4e2f-b8e2-94289a691e8e"><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="id769242b6-e2d8-4d59-87fc-c1dd96770b24"><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="ida6e78af3-6266-4213-b853-0c85f4691273"><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="id3fe582b7-82b7-439c-9f46-da767b889db4"><enum>(2)</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="id43a19790-c2ce-4b8d-9255-47249eaa7d4a"><enum>(3)</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;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4A13B5EA99C14A5D993A863D649A2367"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conduct an evaluation of the process used
to develop and carry out the needs survey under section 516(b)(1)(B) of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1375(b)(1)(B)), including
recommendations for ways to streamline the development and conduct of that
survey; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9a939b3f-29c1-454f-b06b-1b48be40f287"><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
(including recommendations for legislation) to facilitate further streamlining
and improvement of the process.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2126E4230FE8419496CD6848BA244D0C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Considerations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out this section, the
Administrator shall consider the needs of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD1840FE4966B44F19020207AB74EB0E0"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">small treatment works and medium treatment
works (as defined in section 222 of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9EE8440050F14169915CC2A9018235BD"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">treatment works serving populations of
100,000 or more;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id72375270EB2F455A851DC15136720711"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">small public water systems described in
section 1433(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300i–2(d));
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id00B1DCAB496A446E912C84994BFF562E"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">public water systems described in section
1433(a)(2) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300i–2(a)(2)).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id17e2d490-66bb-4247-8e75-23c0219dbc9a" 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="idec38cf19-3802-4731-929e-08a46b3d9723"><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="id0d9e60bf-64f4-4132-a02a-8d38ecac8804"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Required elements</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd02d43d4-6dba-48d9-9f43-092cde0e426f"><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="id0998caba-0528-4efa-a972-7ec0b3bab546"><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="id58991e81-53d4-4fff-a094-dde90a722d3f"><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="idc57334aa-355b-4f67-8594-38167a32c170"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">per capita water demand;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id14f7d653-99b6-4c30-816a-385361ce1745"><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="idce55b57c-ad08-4951-84fb-62ccdb633a90"><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="idb6a2c8fb-c43f-44e8-89bb-d885d53c5887"><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="id354c9346-04f3-42bd-9ed1-5357c19902b9"><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="id44892b8a-db28-4bd2-b885-db931967691d"><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="idd0886736-b7c1-4d96-bc63-4669bb328faa"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">encourages water conservation; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcb498bbe-7ea9-4234-8747-73b1c39fe212"><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="id9a141dfa-15b3-4206-aebc-f408e9216270"><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="id344e938f-8664-4843-bad4-6c811e59bd57"><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="id6330ddc7-c5e3-45b5-8d2f-341de003a484"><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="ida0ad7940-e35a-4235-b3f1-80749b26ca2f"><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="idf34ed4b7-29ca-42f2-b2d1-c7457364f1bd"><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="idcac789ee-2348-495b-b6c2-5061a78c8860"><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="id030bcdfc-594e-4534-ab4f-98d2d1cc2bce"><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="id77aa6dd6-25dd-41c4-bedd-29aaede71537"><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="id89923b5e-52d4-4f9e-9cd5-cddb3c2367b9"><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="idd2d2751b-35d4-4249-bdb1-1ec72a0dde41"><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="idfbfbf0ac-005c-45d1-9aed-49a1e2b6a317"><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="id9d094118-4dfa-4d75-84f4-e625ea9f92f5"><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="ida6cc78fb-07cd-4cdb-a602-ac38c82ecad9"><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="id284013cc-932a-46a4-9ddb-eaf07f115857"><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="ide5aa4b8d-27ff-4e45-a00c-94015d947921"><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 2010 and 2014.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="idcad52274-1f83-4529-924b-978a48b7a059"><enum>306.</enum><header>Effective utility
management strategies</header>
<subsection id="id3352ad95-20ac-415e-89d4-ebd3e0957679"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section:</text>
<paragraph id="idd32465f3-ce46-4793-b081-b047342f93f7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Effective utility
management strategy</header><text>The term <term>effective utility management
strategy</term> means a strategy for the operation and management of a utility
that, as determined by the Administrator, incorporates the following
attributes:</text>
<subparagraph id="idbdba7a89-cff9-40e3-94d1-f622a1d9e5a4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Product quality.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id49988a10-af79-4532-b70b-7742fe4ba9e4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Stakeholder understanding
and support.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9518620d-cb9b-49c2-acf1-cb1636f08897"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Customer
satisfaction.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idc3a8ac06-e0ba-47a7-ba9d-a246b2e6dec5"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Employee
development.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idad3bee26-2446-4715-be38-fd9aacdaa7cf"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Operational
optimization.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2a7a4edb-21b6-4a71-baf1-c43f46cb4d40"><enum>(F)</enum><text>Financial
viability.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idbdfe168c-b752-47ff-a9f4-71c832486688"><enum>(G)</enum><text>Infrastructure
stability.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id14882958-ceb9-4409-8264-2191de33b4c9"><enum>(H)</enum><text>Operational
resiliency.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id12fe26eb-f1dd-40ae-8c37-476c41863e41"><enum>(I)</enum><text>Community
sustainability.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1621986d-57eb-433f-8c20-57656dd0bea1"><enum>(J)</enum><text>Water resource
adequacy.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8c52e0f0-6693-47a5-8290-6e490dd8033a"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Utility</header><text>The
term <term>utility</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id68c891a3-f49a-4614-bfb1-93621b5dae0c"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a treatment works (as
defined in section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C.
1292)); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide0b644da-80a6-4b4f-a273-8ed8a7715c8c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a public water system (as
defined in section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C.
300f)).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id11f48f48-0abc-41bc-a1d4-54289268057d"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Action by
Administrator</header><text>The Administrator may carry out training programs,
provide technical assistance, and disseminate information regarding effective
utility management strategies, including by—</text>
<paragraph id="id965375d1-8c2b-40ee-ad8a-afbcdfe17436"><enum>(1)</enum><text>providing seminars and
workshops (including electronic-based seminars and workshops), conferences, and
other educational programs and developing curricula to advance effective
utility management strategies;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ida786faf7-3f80-40ce-89c5-93e03c6469b4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>offering support and
advice (including financial, operational, and management advice) to utility
operators and managers regarding effective utility management strategies;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ide0e33165-791c-4a9e-9780-877171560248"><enum>(3)</enum><text>publishing and
disseminating manuals on best management practices and other relevant
information, success stories, and lessons learned relating to effective utility
management strategies.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idb3b300da-a5fa-436c-abea-905c547fbd47"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Partner
organizations</header><text>In carrying out subsection (b), the Administrator
may enter into cooperative agreements, as the Administrator determines to be
appropriate, with—</text>
<paragraph id="id3da44124-0c7b-40d3-a5dd-87ec38ad1e20"><enum>(1)</enum><text>stakeholder
associations;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idb6b8682d-5712-48c3-8272-7b2593828b54"><enum>(2)</enum><text>qualified nonprofit
organizations; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id02ce4880-a767-4607-9fe9-bb407b5b2000"><enum>(3)</enum><text>other relevant
organizations, as determined by the Administrator.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idf92c5bf7-ac3d-4198-bfc6-5b75ee486d98"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this section $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="id5d1792a8-7866-4d6e-840a-4e15eacb0acf"><enum>307.</enum><header>WaterSense
Program</header>
<subsection id="id004d88b6-f8fb-4b75-b8b2-07e166ee16e0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>There
is established within the Environmental Protection Agency a program, to be
known as the <quote>WaterSense Program</quote>, to identify and promote
voluntary approaches to increase water efficiency in the United States to
reduce the strain on water and wastewater infrastructure and conserve water
resources for future generations through voluntary labeling, promotion, or
other forms of communication regarding water efficient products, programs,
processes, buildings, landscapes, facilities, and services that meet the
highest water conservation and performance standards.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idc54ed8b5-f534-4ff5-a1fb-c5c3ea935cd5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Administration</header><text>The
WaterSense Program shall be carried out by the Administrator.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id34a841bd-6637-4ece-a297-c1378be43af6"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Duties</header><text>In
carrying out the WaterSense Program, the Administrator shall—</text>
<paragraph id="id18778c01-9b3a-47fb-a982-c3d6df51ea51"><enum>(1)</enum><text>establish—</text>
<subparagraph id="id1dd3a8a3-39b3-4296-9d6a-67b56ce98af4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a WaterSense label to be
used for certain items; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id835eff2d-bca8-45da-a395-0a8daebd7a34"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the procedure by which an
item may be certified to display the WaterSense label;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id9eeaec4a-e6eb-43df-ae28-4f206b3a0966"><enum>(2)</enum><text>promote products
displaying the WaterSense label as the preferred technologies in the market
place for—</text>
<subparagraph id="id1b4c7c81-7f26-48cc-8b45-8d01f924a99b"><enum>(A)</enum><text>reducing water use;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9cdb06d4-c832-4fbc-8dfa-91ad303861db"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensuring product
performance;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id4260f959-3419-412c-b7f4-846465a1615f"><enum>(3)</enum><text>work to enhance public
awareness of the WaterSense label;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id550c3958-d409-4cde-b240-9c67cad7bdee"><enum>(4)</enum><text>preserve the integrity of
the WaterSense label by—</text>
<subparagraph id="id1374393f-639f-4fea-8b3b-f1ca85441cb2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>developing specifications
to ensure reliable performance of WaterSense-labeled products, buildings,
landscapes, and services;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7613d232-1fba-4885-8715-cdf914974c18"><enum>(B)</enum><text>overseeing WaterSense
certifications made by third parties;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb1251bdc-ffe7-4b1e-8ef2-aac426b35974"><enum>(C)</enum><text>conducting reviews of the
use of the WaterSense label in the marketplace and taking corrective action in
any case in which misuse of the label is identified; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb2cc64a9-9bb6-462e-a44d-c5df6ba2bc12"><enum>(D)</enum><text>carrying out such other
measures as the Administrator determines to be appropriate;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id81484c92-796d-4fa6-b23b-2beffa2d37c4"><enum>(5)</enum><text>regularly research and
update WaterSense product criteria for each applicable category of
products;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id25bfbd3c-4e72-463d-a4e9-3e441eb78630"><enum>(6)</enum><text>solicit comments from
interested parties before establishing or revising a WaterSense product
category, specification, or criterion (or before the effective date for any
such product category, specification, or criterion, as applicable);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id4ae18384-f78c-4114-8301-063367b01803"><enum>(7)</enum><text>on adoption of a new or
revised product category, specification, or criterion, provide reasonable
notice to interested parties regarding—</text>
<subparagraph id="ida78b06d0-4181-40cd-9b19-58de17f97aa4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any change (including a
change of effective date) to the product category, specification, or
criterion;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id371df98d-4aff-4458-86bc-2cb12d9fdb46"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an explanation of the
change; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id69369d4d-51db-4e3b-98d2-24afa1197418"><enum>(C)</enum><text>as appropriate, responses
to comments submitted by interested parties regarding the product category,
specification, or criterion;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id953f03a7-8a06-4065-94cd-c28ff48e3d00"><enum>(8)</enum><text>provide appropriate lead
time, as determined by the Administrator, before the applicable effective date
for a new or significant revision to a product category, specification, or
criterion, taking into account the timing requirements of the manufacturing,
product marketing, and distribution process for the specific product, programs,
processes, buildings, landscapes, facilities, or services addressed; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id59a8d3c6-b40c-4c71-bf3f-bee1c765eb47"><enum>(9)</enum><text>identify and, where
appropriate, implement other voluntary approaches in commercial, institutional,
and industrial sectors to improve water efficiency.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id30ad5c98-da4e-4e55-b2cb-086d82151d41"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Annual
reports</header><text>Not less frequently than once each year, the
Administrator shall prepare and make publicly available a report describing the
activities carried out under this section, including, to the maximum extent
practicable—</text>
<paragraph id="id2564a6b4-ee94-4502-b4c2-0f4696866ae9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>available information
regarding sales in each WaterSense product category; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id939140c0-0196-4047-96e0-403bf9c7b2b3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the savings of water,
energy, and capital costs of water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure
attributable to the WaterSense program and each category of WaterSense product,
expressed on a national, regional, State, and watershed level.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id7726871e-d7c0-4439-a87d-31ea6a01d193"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this section—</text>
<paragraph id="idada5ea23-f7d0-4cc1-a1aa-6ab16f0bde44"><enum>(1)</enum><text>$5,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2010 and 2011;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id061c283e-dae8-437e-940e-4f9a69282e4b"><enum>(2)</enum><text>$7,500,000 for each of
fiscal years 2012 and 2013; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9aa069c9-37eb-4539-8159-3d7fb8991774"><enum>(3)</enum><text>$10,000,000 for fiscal
year 2014.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="idF784F25C89384F01B8D333F9A30BD2C2"><enum>308.</enum><header>Pharmaceuticals and
personal care products</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
104 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1254) is amended by
adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSEV00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0AB8033B3F714474A8F2ABCDB363051B" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="IDbb814c60d8454f8288029896cd1c540e"><enum>(w)</enum><header>Presence of
pharmaceuticals and personal care products in waters of the United
States</header>
<paragraph id="ID892be9523dc7431faeeae43971477bb6"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this subsection:</text>
<subparagraph id="id8F65E8E15E044CDB9E73F6B59D1C12AD"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Academy</header><text>The
term <term>Academy</term> means the National Academy of Sciences.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idF6C790B100CB45BD865F6A7F4600A0FE"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Pharmaceutical</header><text>The
term <term>pharmaceutical</term> has the meaning given the term
<term>drug</term> in section 201 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
(21 U.S.C. 321).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id15BE1CE014A04333A631CD6B20AD907A"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Personal care
product</header><text>The term <term>personal care product</term> has the
meaning given the term <term>cosmetic</term> in section 201 of the Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 321).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID45f79406bf8646278eeac2bd7de61617"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Study</header><text>The
Administrator shall offer to enter into an arrangement with the National
Academy of Sciences under which the Academy, in consultation with the
Administrator, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (acting through the
Commissioner of Food and Drugs), the Director of the United States Geological
Survey, the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies (including the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences), and other interested stakeholders
(including manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and personal care products), shall
conduct a study on the presence of pharmaceuticals and personal care products
in the waters of the United States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDda746ce609684e509401784310ea36e0"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>In
conducting the study under paragraph (2), the Academy shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID5d94a10998a44064959cd6e47071a6c0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>identify pharmaceuticals
and personal care products that have been detected in the waters of the United
States and the levels at which such pharmaceuticals and personal care products
have been detected;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDc3e1e6d5767443d2a9cf91cd066b54d3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>identify the sources of
pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the waters of the United States,
including point sources and nonpoint sources of pharmaceutical and personal
care products; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDf28e5f9170824305b7e2cbef8ebd6279"><enum>(C)</enum><text>evaluate—</text>
<clause id="id050E0B0A3634423FA5A92C25B690DA3A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>risks associated with the
presence of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the waters of the
United States; and</text>
</clause><clause id="idB1DA87875B1C40C99226F4A2AF1E86D3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>based upon that
assessment, the technical, economic, and legal feasibility of methods to
control, limit, treat, or prevent that presence.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID71670188ce6e405bacf364bc03e35900"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not
later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Academy
shall submit to the Administrator and Congress a report on the results of the
study conducted under this subsection, including the potential effects of
pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the waters of the United States
on human health and aquatic
wildlife.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="id9CCF7D59DE0D42E2BE69AE4B152DE796"><enum>309.</enum><header>Financing capability
guidance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 180
days after the date of enactment of this Act, for the purpose of updating the
document entitled <quote>Combined Sewer Overflows–Guidance for Financial
Capability Assessment and Schedule Development</quote> and dated February 1997,
the Administrator shall—</text>
<paragraph id="ID2b7a678bb657474da8df22707a9c645d"><enum>(1)</enum><text>collect and take into
consideration information that can be used to assess the financial condition of
permittees under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et
seq.);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idB0E9876322B64EF3A17A8290105DF1CF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>consult with the affected
States, municipalities, and other interested parties, as determined by the
Administrator; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id1A2D4346EEC049BE9BD502B8FB9427BC"><enum>(3)</enum><text>conduct a public outreach
process.</text>
</paragraph></section>
July 15, 2009
Reported with an amendment