[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2173 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2173

   To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to 
    wastewater infrastructure workforce development, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2021

 Mr. Stanton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to 
    wastewater infrastructure workforce development, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Wastewater Workforce Investment 
Act''.

SEC. 2. WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT.

    (a) Report to Congress on Publicly Owned Treatment Works Workforce 
Development.--Section 104(g) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1251(g)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``manpower'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``workforce''; and
            (2) by amending paragraph (4) to read as follows--
            ``(4) Report to congress on publicly owned treatment works 
        workforce development.--Not later than 2 years after the date 
        of enactment of the Wastewater Workforce Investment Act, the 
        Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation 
        and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the 
        Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate a 
        report containing--
                    ``(A) an assessment of the current and future 
                workforce needs for publicly owned treatment works, 
                including an estimate of the number of future positions 
                needed for such treatment works and the technical 
                skills and education needed for such positions;
                    ``(B) a summary of actions taken by the 
                Administrator, including Federal investments under this 
                Act, that promote workforce development to address such 
                needs; and
                    ``(C) any recommendations of the Administrator to 
                address such needs.''.
    (b) Allotment of Funds.--Section 604 of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1384) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(d) Wastewater Infrastructure Workforce Development.--A State may 
reserve each fiscal year up to 1 percent of the sums allotted to the 
State under this section for the fiscal year to carry out workforce 
development, training, and retraining activities described in section 
104(g).''.
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