115 S914 ES: Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021
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1.Short title; table of contents(a)This Act may be cited as the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021
.(b)The table of contents for this Act is as follows:Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.Sec. 2. Definition of Administrator.TITLE I—Drinking waterSec. 101. Technical assistance and grants for emergencies affecting public water systems.Sec. 102. Drinking water State revolving loan funds.Sec. 103. Source water petition program.Sec. 104. Assistance for small and disadvantaged communities.Sec. 105. Reducing lead in drinking water.Sec. 106. Operational sustainability of small public water systems.Sec. 107. Midsize and large drinking water system infrastructure resilience and sustainability program.Sec. 108. Needs assessment for nationwide rural and urban low-income community water assistance.Sec. 109. Rural and low-income water assistance pilot program.Sec. 110. Lead contamination in school drinking water.Sec. 111. Indian reservation drinking water program.Sec. 112. Advanced drinking water technologies.Sec. 113. Cybersecurity support for public water systems.Sec. 114. State response to contaminants.Sec. 115. Annual study on boil water advisories.TITLE II—Clean waterSec. 201. Research, investigations, training, and information.Sec. 202. Wastewater efficiency grant pilot program.Sec. 203. Pilot program for alternative water source projects.Sec. 204. Sewer overflow and stormwater reuse municipal grants.Sec. 205. Clean water infrastructure resiliency and sustainability program.Sec. 206. Small and medium publicly owned treatment works circuit rider program.Sec. 207. Small publicly owned treatment works efficiency grant program.Sec. 208. Grants for construction and refurbishing of individual household decentralized wastewater systems for individuals with low or moderate income.Sec. 209. Connection to publicly owned treatment works.Sec. 210. Clean water State revolving funds.Sec. 211. Water infrastructure and workforce investment.Sec. 212. Grants to Alaska to improve sanitation in rural and Native villages.Sec. 213. Water data sharing pilot program.Sec. 214. Final rating opinion letters.Sec. 215. Water infrastructure financing reauthorization.Sec. 216. Small and disadvantaged community analysis.Sec. 217. Stormwater infrastructure technology.Sec. 218. Water Reuse Interagency Working Group.Sec. 219. Advanced clean water technologies study.Sec. 220. Clean watersheds needs survey.Sec. 221. Water Resources Research Act amendments.Sec. 222. Enhanced aquifer use and recharge.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">Drinking water</header><section id="id1a851967-dad5-4058-9724-b15b88ca7da0" section-type="subsequent-section" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>101.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical assistance and grants for emergencies affecting public water systems</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1442 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-1">42 U.S.C. 300j–1</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="id4a9d1424-e6c3-4e04-bab8-8b5d4a220dcb" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="id30B253B5359C4615A3F03C0E4ACDCF96" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph indent="up1" id="idA440892D22754DC1BC5E5F9499B2BC56" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(11)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Compliance evaluation</header><subparagraph id="id1F1F593CDA964EB1AFEDD45F855C9FD2" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator shall—</text><clause id="idC1481F7D70214C8F9FB5C099552BF706" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">evaluate, based on the compliance data found in the Safe Drinking Water Information System of the Administrator, the compliance of community water systems and wastewater systems with environmental, health, and safety requirements under this title, including water quality sampling, testing, and reporting requirements; and</text></clause><clause id="id4998C5D28B3345A1998C49D482EF9566" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit to Congress a report describing trends seen as a result of the evaluation under clause (i), including trends that demonstrate how the characteristics of community water systems and wastewater systems correlate to trends in compliance or noncompliance with the requirements described in that clause.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idD8F9E5F5327E4C2D9996E07F3B98D3A9" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the extent practicable, in carrying out subparagraph (A), the Administrator shall determine whether, in aggregate, community water systems and wastewater systems maintain asset management plans.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id77E6CE332EF44968B72A3A36C52C2D6C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b), in the first sentence—</text><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="idDB756D165EAC490190AB17E12ADAB946" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>(including an emergency situation resulting from a cybersecurity event)</quote> after <quote>emergency situation</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id5BF7A36841AA482EABDC43B470911CC0" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>, including a threat to public health resulting from contaminants, such as, but not limited to, heightened exposure to lead in drinking water</quote> after <quote>public health</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="iddc1c0408-889e-4586-b8c5-ae35a791c1d1" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsection (d) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="id2c336929-95f3-49c8-9fa6-b6c0a57840a9" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subsection id="idb407f4db-16ce-4908-aeec-06fe1180e441" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><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 subsection (b) $35,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="idba73ebd5-d814-4c59-90de-b33f42b320aa" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (e), by striking paragraph (5) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb6cf77a92a834304b50ed83f83cea4b5"><paragraph id="id170326f7d3c3417b958fb2bd32cbbcd5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</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 $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="idE2F111D417FC44D5A9B0E294EF912ED2" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g); and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idD5718E700FEF413C97BE8362DDA43D4A" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (e) the following:</text><quoted-block id="id46087C900AE74EE4B0CE394E1F47FA24" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subsection id="idB9A71DA3BAC341CE83D94E4B1A25EA82" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State-based nonprofit organizations</header><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id79EA8CE449FF46D4BB6E6E13B0FB6F74" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may provide technical assistance consistent with the authority provided under subsection (e) to State-based nonprofit organizations that are governed by community water systems.</text></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id1E0B9D3E4D464269B6AA4CE9904E054C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Communication</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State-based nonprofit organization that receives funding under paragraph (1) shall, before using that funding to undertake activities to carry out this subsection, consult with the State in which the assistance is to be expended or otherwise made available.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section id="id8040c1b1-f99c-4277-b2d1-a8d645c69f8e" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Drinking water State revolving loan funds</header><subsection id="idFDACC447DAB040B19C41C5DBD480204D" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Drinking water State revolving funds capitalization grant reauthorization</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-12">42 U.S.C. 300j–12</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="id7070BDBDEAE14B4E828C8290B20A937A" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)(4)(A), by striking <quote>During fiscal years 2019 through 2023, funds</quote> and inserting <quote>Funds</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id2F2C901434E14E22A97254A9755FC5BD" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (m)(1) —</text><subparagraph id="id1EA287E3BDD3429089BEDDE7B5D40938" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>and</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idAE9B95E8E3C746979356071D9E116F3F" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8DA8E5D45E21426AB70461548A9CBBA5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="id892EB6B22F804D2E904ED1077F7EC8A7" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="id4B01E00B6B7948338ED5121C06A6A8F7" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$2,400,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE731FDCEC3E14357BFF2C449D595C014" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$2,750,000,000 for fiscal year 2023;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9D743337E2E64775A5E551201C0336A4" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$3,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2024; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idC1E7F6AF19C7499E942FBDE2E92295E0" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$3,250,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 and 2026.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idD900A67F1D574A71871F75D246336A5C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (q), by striking <quote>2016 through 2021</quote> and inserting <quote>2022 through 2026</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id92C5E135096D4A45B331A15C3541080E" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Assistance for disadvantaged communities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1452(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-12">42 U.S.C. 300j–12(d)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="id21F67967391745F1B7F953343E926601" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text><subparagraph id="idCCB832CB74D346229116AB7850A351B9" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Notwithstanding any</quote> and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="id728A3C36C52D456283DF9E2A2EE957E7" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="id72BEAD3EC0CF4D0A89CBC92987D54708" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6666C7E83FBC45B8BDD3811EEA04BCC4" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A) (as so designated), by inserting <quote>, grants, negative interest loans, other loan forgiveness, and through buying, refinancing, or restructuring debt</quote> after <quote>forgiveness of principal</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id524433FD4F6F4DE9BECD529BF4923E24" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="idEADAEE86A2404CEB809960C9806B18C1" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="id3B89DAD6CB5B4D7DAFF0EF07A5FC18B7" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exclusion</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A loan from a State loan fund with an interest rate equal to or greater than 0 percent shall not be considered additional subsidization for purposes of this subsection.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id02204826D75B4C94B9596E70B017A9EC" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="id6DB938DEBE7B482C879D7FD1D7A433A0" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="id26D228A87CD24ACD855DCBF5B2BB78C5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to the extent that there are sufficient applications for loans to communities described in paragraph (1), may not be less than 12 percent.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id5f8aac28-6a2f-4237-8ff7-2357e90309c6" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Source water petition program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1454 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-14">42 U.S.C. 300j–14</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="idbd0385fd-8c3c-4570-98e4-b32fd8febdd2" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)—</text><subparagraph id="idc2ab6706-2986-4a48-a235-aacc77a38f58" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)(A), in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking <quote>political subdivision of a State,</quote> and inserting <quote>political subdivision of a State (including a county that is designated by the State to act on behalf of an unincorporated area within that county, with the agreement of that unincorporated area),</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="ida76552c8-c40b-41b0-92c2-f56160938522" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4)(D)(i), by inserting <quote>(including a county that is designated by the State to act on behalf of an unincorporated area within that county)</quote> after <quote>of the State</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id991d7ae6-259f-483b-9a3b-02e0a264172f" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="id7a05334d-ac4d-41f0-8e6f-b725d0cdf546" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="id95434455-311f-4128-af04-bf6d2a3fb885" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Savings provision</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Unless otherwise provided within the agreement, an agreement between an unincorporated area and a county for the county to submit a petition under paragraph (1)(A) on behalf of the unincorporated area shall not authorize the county to act on behalf of the unincorporated area in any matter not within a program under this section.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id986c94e0-d056-4de2-9998-7e3bafc57dfa" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (e), in the first sentence, by striking <quote>2021</quote> and inserting <quote>2026</quote>.</text></paragraph></section><section id="id1398ed94-e586-4655-8d9c-441a19fb3053" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>104.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Assistance for small and disadvantaged communities</header><subsection id="id9cad7d12-a45d-4765-8635-d315afa2fbc6" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Existing programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1459A of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-19a">42 U.S.C. 300j–19a</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="iddb2cd0eb-4ed3-4494-a31e-34100c782ee7" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)(2)—</text><subparagraph id="id2abc0bec-ba0b-4674-bd2b-97f6303375ce" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6646fe1d-4102-4ca6-9a9a-7e6a787a62ee" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id98498d9a-4951-4f2b-9e82-0b52d85305c3" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="id9856a7f9-2b57-4064-8a18-6c40848ea00c" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="idd00b3859-aa54-4988-8695-1b52f4acbc8d" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the purchase of point-of-entry or point-of-use filters and filtration systems that are certified by a third party using science-based test methods for the removal of contaminants of concern;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7cda0660-a2ab-4391-ac57-397a9e10310a" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">investments necessary for providing accurate and current information about—</text><clause id="idb6cc8414-6846-474e-b2e9-8b4d56264511" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the need for filtration and filter safety, including proper use and maintenance practices; and</text></clause><clause id="idbd8625d1-43f7-4cdd-a3c8-09201c5cf542" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the options for replacing lead service lines (as defined section 1459B(a)) and removing other sources of lead in water; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id647b9297-61f8-444d-af35-948b3d2877b9" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">entering into contracts, including contracts with nonprofit organizations that have water system technical expertise, to assist—</text><clause id="idefe9e447-5f37-4d94-801c-4982f0bbd994" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an eligible entity; or</text></clause><clause id="idc9e72ead-677f-4b1d-9484-f2ad2b59a9b3" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the State of an eligible entity, on behalf of that eligible entity.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idfe0bbab9-efb4-4007-90db-0dbe5f270ccc" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking <quote>An eligible entity</quote> and inserting <quote>Except for purposes of subsections (j) and (m), an eligible entity</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id94cdc6ed-a5ad-49c4-bdd1-826fd933b20b" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (g)(1), by striking <quote>to pay not less than 45 percent</quote> and inserting <quote>except as provided in subsection (l)(5) and subject to subsection (h), to pay not less than 10 percent</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idec62af54-e8f4-4d6c-a207-be019e1bd2b9" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsection (k) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="id86450eb3-bc66-4ae8-9c72-2e1fb3aaf64b" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subsection id="id4c59ae1d-4926-4128-a9be-e176057324b1" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(k)</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 subsections (a) through (j)—</text><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="idEE628FCA063247158AF78F31913FA086" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$70,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;</text></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id496C337E7AFD4BB78EF2114D5DDB1ED5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$80,000,000 for fiscal year 2023;</text></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="idEF13948435C94D2A81764BF238AD120F" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$100,000,000 for fiscal year 2024;</text></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id3879869174F2449AA19F6244EDB7D156" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$120,000,000 for fiscal year 2025; and</text></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="idF866540BE9594FC3BC872E2A80F6AC06" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$140,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="ida252f2a4-ca6f-4321-bd1b-64eed7bf6f01" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (l)—</text><subparagraph id="id273f017d-730f-405e-ad76-28f5a6ae8fe6" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)—</text><clause id="idd5e6880d-a86a-4c45-88ba-16d653b63402" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>The Administrator may</quote> and inserting <quote>The Administrator shall</quote>; and</text></clause><clause id="id416e0c87-f1e3-4b87-9b3b-d6cbc1f25882" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>fiscal years 2019 and 2020</quote> and inserting <quote>fiscal years 2022 through 2026</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id049CEB30ED764D69913B89C6EFFBC4E5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"> in paragraph (5), by striking <quote>$4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 and 2020</quote> and inserting <quote>$25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id368bc891-fccd-4642-a84d-9d8d2e22911e" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id24729cfd-f6c7-4e02-9f3d-328e8abf9184" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:</text><quoted-block act-name="" id="id33b53fbd-807b-45b6-b2a7-ef302c4e3198" style="OLC" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="id70fda018-0dbc-4d66-a1ae-ac0483be7ed5" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal share for small, rural, and disadvantaged communities</header><subparagraph id="id75ee4964-890a-4d8d-b9f6-7f92a7af2271" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to subparagraph (B), with respect to a program or project that serves an eligible entity and is carried out using a grant under this subsection, the Federal share of the cost of the program or project shall be 90 percent.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id52f159c6-b2a7-4cb7-95ef-8005b0b54208" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Waiver</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may increase the Federal share under subparagraph (A) to 100 percent 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></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id34d50732-387b-47ba-8ba8-1dd5434bd172" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Connection to public water systems</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1459A of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-19a">42 U.S.C. 300j–19a</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="idd2fde2f2-7b5b-4996-a891-9659c588e5bd" display-inline="no-display-inline" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed"><subsection id="idd6ea24ab-f9b8-4872-989a-d4ce915df341" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(m)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Connection to public water systems</header><paragraph id="ide4314ddd-1778-44e9-9e59-95cbefcac6d7" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection:</text><subparagraph id="id3cf339f9-87a5-4025-8cef-974a3e392c22" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible entity</term> means—</text><clause id="id300a86fd-879c-444a-873a-0dc6b44ff636" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an owner or operator of a public water system that assists or is seeking to assist eligible individuals with connecting the household of the eligible individual to the public water system; or</text></clause><clause id="id2cdcac65-195f-463e-8009-0863f410a684" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a nonprofit entity that assists or is seeking to assist eligible individuals with the costs associated with connecting the household of the eligible individual to a public water system.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idff316e15-3795-4c37-afc6-f55e6ff58ee7" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible individual</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible individual</term> has the meaning given the term in section 603(j) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1383">33 U.S.C. 1383(j)</external-xref>).</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id38f84957-be28-42ab-8525-8a2c20e0a2ab" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>program</term> means the competitive grant program established under paragraph (2).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id89831840-a409-4da8-bf66-0b19ce535489" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator shall establish a competitive grant program for the purpose of improving the general welfare under which the Administrator awards grants to eligible entities to provide funds to assist eligible individuals in covering the costs incurred by the eligible individual in connecting the household of the eligible individual to a public water system.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id0cde9821-d7a8-4919-9991-a3ef734c260d" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible entity seeking a grant under the program shall submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator may require.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id840ca203-a6d0-4106-a1e7-a8ee67d0c4bf" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Voluntary connection</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before providing funds to an eligible individual for the costs described in paragraph (2), an eligible entity shall ensure and certify to the Administrator that—</text><subparagraph id="id596339c7-1e15-45fc-972d-574cd0110d65" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the eligible individual is voluntarily seeking connection to the public water system;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6503af26-08ef-4a37-b1f4-4784bf348964" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the eligible entity is not the owner or operator of the public water system to which the eligible individual seeks to connect, the public water system to which the eligible individual seeks to connect has agreed to the connection; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7a57d02d-619a-4468-938f-3bab5de094dd" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the connection of the household of the eligible individual to the public water system meets all applicable local and State regulations, requirements, and codes.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id16AC02DCBEE34633AEFADCB660A7AFD5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that describes the implementation of the program, which shall include a description of the use and deployment of amounts made available under the program.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idb8369b11-7255-4bb6-8f2b-203789038f70" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed"><enum>(6)</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 the program $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="idd4e85463-3d7c-4f8f-aa8c-4e303bf71a9e" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Competitive grant pilot program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1459A of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-19a">42 U.S.C. 300j–19a</external-xref>) (as amended by subsection (b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd01eabac-526e-425f-a1fc-e7d1f0aac856" changed="not-changed"><subsection id="id1dfc670a-0920-4fc1-ab7d-d34a860528dd" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(n)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State competitive grants for underserved communities</header><paragraph id="id52f8a363-486c-4d0f-8145-108f82b4c383" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to amounts authorized to be appropriated under subsection (k), there is authorized to be appropriated to carry out subsections (a) through (j) $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 in accordance with paragraph (2).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id40e43a41-993e-4bb3-ac20-1e8404e2abf1" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Competitive grants</header><subparagraph id="idb4457b40-0908-470c-9cb2-a9bdfa9701b8" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Administrator shall distribute amounts made available under paragraph (1) to States through a competitive grant program.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6363d9f1-45ee-469b-ae8e-77d1e0035443" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To seek a grant under the competitive grant program under subparagraph (A), a State shall submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator may require.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id4a49ca54-426b-4b33-92d3-d128f1a905a7" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Criteria</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In selecting recipients of grants under the competitive grant program under subparagraph (A), the Administrator shall establish criteria that give priority to States with a high proportion of underserved communities that meet the condition described in subsection (a)(2)(A).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="idC71AEFC315C64DCFB3E9D93E5D07FA61" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that describes the implementation of the competitive grant program under paragraph (2)(A), which shall include a description of the use and deployment of amounts made available under the competitive grant program.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="ida9c37544-239e-46c6-8fd6-b2523826e307" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Savings provision</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this paragraph affects the distribution of amounts made available under subsection (k), including any methods used by the Administrator for distribution of amounts made available under that subsection as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this subsection.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section id="id47e9d1e6-7f73-4107-9a23-a01a14a55155" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>105.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reducing lead in drinking water</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1459B of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-19b">42 U.S.C. 300j–19b</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="idea8a5d5c-483d-4d3c-9089-92f3f3eb01aa" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)—</text><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id08D78B05832B4FD981F9B73BE84FC928" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by striking subparagraph (D) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="id1B75E131317C4D3FB04D2FD7EA186EBF" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="idAA5AA093B26C4BB4A875AE26941A53DB" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a qualified nonprofit organization with experience in lead reduction, as determined by the Administrator; and</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="idC23CC5B24F2B4D8CB20DBC52E732ED6A" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)(A)—</text><clause changed="not-changed" id="id657EA1D88EDB46A0BA674EC21D6234B9" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (i), by striking <quote>publicly owned</quote>; and</text></clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="id55110B4B327249CCB99F623FC8E7B23F" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking clause (iii) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="id134D2B652F5B48EAB91E33E7D5FA7FBE" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><clause id="idB53314ECEFA34730B866059E5F8AC2E1" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">providing assistance to eligible entities to replace lead service lines, with priority for disadvantaged communities based on the affordability criteria established by the applicable State under section 1452(d)(3), low-income homeowners, and landlords or property owners providing housing to low-income renters.</text></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id21B0668666C44DA8BE46C7571A1BDCA6" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>an individual provided</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id1DB68207B9C24DD5A264361074EF9BA7" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)—</text><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="idA48B1F0DB2104DE7ACECF139011B27D7" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (5)—</text><clause changed="not-changed" id="id30F08007A7544AFFBBB30BA93CBD116E" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>to provide assistance</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting <quote>to replace lead service lines, with first priority given to assisting disadvantaged communities based on the affordability criteria established by the applicable State under section 1452(d)(3), low-income homeowners, and landlords or property owners providing housing to low-income renters.</quote>; and</text></clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="idAE79639E4573486AAFD4EA331C3DCB2A" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>line</quote> and inserting <quote>lines</quote>; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="idA9E1FC0582124B4EA543F86BDAFB00A1" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (6)—</text><clause changed="not-changed" id="id921B69AE72874620BD9B983800AC2C6D" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>any publicly owned portion of</quote>;</text></clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="id5B4AC2AC25394C9FADD9224CD682E822" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C), in the matter preceding clause (i)—</text><subclause changed="not-changed" id="id1A7A3FDB772C4980A6EA3DC8DFF7C413" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>may</quote> and inserting <quote>shall</quote>;</text></subclause><subclause changed="not-changed" id="id21BA30CBEB224B6C9F9DFD8361782F59" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>and may, for other homeowners,</quote> after <quote>low-income homeowner,</quote>; and</text></subclause><subclause changed="not-changed" id="id22B063C9C3954183B34D56EFD04AB73F" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>a cost that</quote> and all that follows through the semicolon at the end of clause (ii) and inserting <quote>no cost to the homeowner;</quote>;</text></subclause></clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="idBDE4EB65000C4144832B33277BE15579" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (D), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="id4E398DBD945F43A68AE404299D1CC8E3" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (E), by striking <quote>other options</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting <quote>feasible alternatives for reducing the concentration of lead in drinking water, such as corrosion control; and</quote>; and</text></clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="idBE07C621F50E4A1792D5582AE9C8F834" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="id0459763829424353AD880D00DB9C8E64" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="id2EFD9952BB564918B66D05545D87EA43" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall notify the State of any planned replacement of lead service lines under this program and coordinate, where practicable, with other relevant infrastructure projects.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id2C0A08B1154D45649D951058684FEC9A" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d)—</text><subparagraph id="id8f38b44c-79f6-4a8d-9e20-c82786a030d4" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>(except for subsection (d))</quote> after <quote>this section</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ida5c3ee16-7fe7-4661-8695-95da44963332" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>$60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021</quote> and inserting <quote>$100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id74c18306-7ccf-4225-ac91-7430d1477063" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as subsections (e) and (f), respectively; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id33f62069-4451-4a0d-9bd0-0138262d58fe" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (c) the following:</text><quoted-block id="idf2cf07e9-9382-4039-85a2-9f7d0ebf356c" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subsection id="id92286168-6fd0-470f-aead-c85ddc11102a" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Lead inventorying utilization grant pilot program</header><paragraph id="idd8f32594-a612-47db-9f36-696f95ed4618" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection:</text><subparagraph id="id0fd4a56e-dc43-4e44-8d14-c3c583d83a9a" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible entity</term> means a municipality that is served by a community water system or a nontransient noncommunity water system in which not less than 30 percent of the service lines are known, or suspected, to contain lead, based on available data, information, or resources, including existing lead inventorying.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6b44dced-a33c-492a-a720-f3365b28f772" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pilot program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>pilot program</term> means the pilot program established under paragraph (2). </text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id75ceb40b-3d0a-4d18-8b3b-d2e829281858" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall establish a pilot program under which the Administrator shall provide grants to eligible entities to carry out lead reduction projects that are demonstrated to exist or are suspected to exist, based on available data, information, or resources, including existing lead inventorying of those eligible entities.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idbb050c2a-2076-4493-9e4d-e41998fb9521" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Selection</header><subparagraph id="id3b36bdbf-3e63-4178-a074-337ba5ba1bc6" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To be eligible to receive a grant under the pilot program, an eligible entity shall submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator may require.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id32404048-1b74-431c-aaa7-658236d55b9d" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prioritization</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In selecting recipients under the pilot program, the Administrator shall give priority to—</text><clause changed="not-changed" id="id20CE6DAB4F5E45469FF0D8B0303305C6" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an eligible entity that meets the affordability criteria of the applicable State established under section 1452(d)(3); and</text></clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="idD433E22C49B64D87BE36ED143AE898E6" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an eligible entity that is located in an area other than a State that has established affordability criteria under section 1452(d)(3).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idc5b2537d-91b5-42f9-8c92-f1dc42e6c1cb" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later 2 years after the Administrator first awards a grant under the pilot program, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report describing—</text><subparagraph id="id60593ee7-ee02-4842-9d5d-d7b9db785976" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the recipients of grants under the pilot program;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id627951b0-e57d-4c14-bb80-7ff150ef51e9" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the existing lead inventorying that was available to recipients of grants under the pilot program; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idcbca1a69-9b0b-47da-b94a-af679d00db72" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">how useful and accurate the lead inventorying described in subparagraph (B) was in locating lead service lines of the eligible entity.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idd470294d-0c75-4be7-8b88-b2797db0eb26" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</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 the pilot program $10,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section id="id4f06ca27-34a7-4cdc-9c2f-cf0c9ad1ae45" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>106.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operational sustainability of small public water systems</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Part E of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j">42 U.S.C. 300j</external-xref> et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block act-name="" id="id26ee64aa-bd54-4868-8a9c-edf925104878" style="OLC" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><section id="idd3eb5bc5-cf06-4ceb-a464-1a8e3745aa19" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>1459E.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operational sustainability of small public water systems</header><subsection id="id880158a7-76a4-42d8-bf69-38cdc3d0a510" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph id="id91307787-88b5-47ee-9a4b-d1711adea017" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible entity</term> means—</text><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id96BCE476BBF446C4AE5C88041A3830E1" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a State;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id53982337289E4CB1B7027C69A5B268CA" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a unit of local government;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id907246E7A4524ED3AF1BE364738BB306" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a public corporation established by a unit of local government to provide water service;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idFD5AEA16F31F4D80AB4DE1E53646D8F4" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a nonprofit corporation, public trust, or cooperative association that owns or operates a public water system;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id740AAF4763D54697910B9F17DCFC9227" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an Indian Tribe that owns or operates a public water system;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id68411DC76BCD48ABAA0561D8233F8863" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a nonprofit organization that provides technical assistance to public water systems; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id2FEE56250E884C4C8911F0524569BDAD" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a Tribal consortium.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ida4ae0874-0a6d-4a51-8682-1531c8f7d981" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operational sustainability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>operational sustainability</term> means the ability to improve the operation of a small system through the identification and prevention of potable water loss due to leaks, breaks, and other metering or infrastructure failures.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id1d7f417b-a6d0-4fd6-a989-a13d5c1239e3" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>program</term> means the grant program established under subsection (b).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id3a89e7b0-c232-4ca5-bedc-c96ccc025476" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Small system</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>small system</term>, for the purposes of this section, means a public water system that—</text><subparagraph id="iddc709831-b6e6-4b15-a996-fddf12cf0db4" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">serves fewer than 10,000 people; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id4f65c235-ba09-4a5e-9be6-21aafea05ebb" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is owned or operated by—</text><clause id="idcdb8a632-9ab3-44ca-b6c1-7e147d8f3750" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a unit of local government;</text></clause><clause id="id2818ab06-74fe-436a-9e9e-a8cd017f8669" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a public corporation;</text></clause><clause id="idd4ce0eea-8154-44fb-be7b-dd77ae40e1f7" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a nonprofit corporation;</text></clause><clause id="idDFAAF26EF60E454AA8E28E471F7D443A" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a public trust;</text></clause><clause id="idC1629EAC6AF843528C165E538D36545F" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a cooperative association; or</text></clause><clause id="idCC1F65310413492AAC902FF13645BC20" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an Indian Tribe.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idce4dd7ef-f379-4976-9166-af57cfc8874f" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator shall establish a program to award grants to eligible entities for the purpose of improving the operational sustainability of 1 or more small systems.</text></subsection><subsection id="id29ee845b-f60a-4886-a6e3-3bb57acd61b0" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To be eligible to receive a grant under the program, an eligible entity shall submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator may require, including—</text><paragraph id="id75ab4db8-e359-4e4c-919d-78216df13d72" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a proposal of the project to be carried out using grant funds under the program;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id9bed32b6-3b82-485a-b38c-6b599289d3ca" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">documentation provided by the eligible entity describing the deficiencies or suspected deficiencies in operational sustainability of 1 or more small systems that are to be addressed through the proposed project;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="iddd12f307-56e4-4a93-a163-9519cd162122" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of how the proposed project will improve the operational sustainability of 1 or more small systems;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idfadb13ca-b88e-4658-b8da-8211222edc61" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of how the improvements described in paragraph (3) will be maintained beyond the life of the proposed project, including a plan to maintain and update any asset data collected as a result of the proposed project; and</text></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="idAA2639E421DE41E8A9ED2A2DFD189D15" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any additional information the Administrator may require.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="idD1A2CD36F088417588CC5E4AACCE59D7" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Additional required information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before the award of funds for a grant under the program to a grant recipient, the grant recipient shall submit to the Administrator—</text><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id24DB2880F7804DE1B5CFBE63739EEC71" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the grant recipient is located in a State that has established a State drinking water treatment revolving loan fund under section 1452, a copy of a written agreement between the grant recipient and the State in which the grant recipient agrees to provide a copy of any data collected under the proposed project to the State agency administering the State drinking water treatment revolving loan fund (or a designee); or</text></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id247AB959C9624B22B007D2D6E6B6340A" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the grant recipient is located in an area other than a State that has established a State drinking water treatment revolving loan fund under section 1452, a copy of a written agreement between the grant recipient and the Administrator in which the eligible entity agrees to provide a copy of any data collected under the proposed project to the Administrator (or a designee).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id4f0653f2-8d1a-4cbb-a3ca-dcf8bc698ef7" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible entity that receives a grant under the program shall use the grant funds to carry out projects that improve the operational sustainability of 1 or more small systems through—</text><paragraph id="id06d69eaf-f166-47ad-818a-16056014b64e" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the development of a detailed asset inventory, which may include drinking water sources, wells, storage, valves, treatment systems, distribution lines, hydrants, pumps, controls, and other essential infrastructure;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id86c1c1ad-88b2-4d04-ba22-97408dc675e6" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the development of an infrastructure asset map, including a map that uses technology such as—</text><subparagraph id="id6380d9ec-450a-4082-af0b-bfe7c3fc3180" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">geographic information system software; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3f168652-0ceb-48fe-b2f6-4de12e30bceb" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">global positioning system software;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idd8711964-f0f6-4050-9468-b6b35d01ba59" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the deployment of leak detection technology;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idaa293678-6f9c-4ac4-bfcb-58928937c4e0" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the deployment of metering technology;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id7649f9f5-8cd0-481a-a3f4-36eb50e90f06" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">training in asset management strategies, techniques, and technologies for appropriate staff employed by—</text><subparagraph id="id3b2b7c84-62c2-4749-a0ce-ecf1f0de3842" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the eligible entity; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id53082667-8179-421b-a287-26fa04ec70d3" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the small systems for which the grant was received;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id93BF33B6B012453AAF398231A309BB71" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the deployment of strategies, techniques, and technologies to enhance the operational sustainability and effective use of water resources through water reuse; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id5677fba2-e8e0-4d4b-9d31-d584261914b9" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the development or deployment of other strategies, techniques, or technologies that the Administrator may determine to be appropriate under the program.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id919be0b1-5679-4473-8597-8aa3acbfa438" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cost share</header><paragraph id="ida8eacca2-922f-4b17-ac51-cde33e5d9e1f" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (2), the Federal share of the cost of a project carried out using a grant under the program shall be 90 percent of the total cost of the project.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idbeaa4fcf-f568-43a4-bd99-437e507fee79" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Waiver</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may increase the Federal share under paragraph (1) to 100 percent.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="idAC7914BFE0614CD5A728CE6A2E6BC054" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that describes the implementation of the program, which shall include a description of the use and deployment of amounts made available under the program.</text></subsection><subsection id="id986d4aef-724a-45c7-9c9b-8583797a7afa" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><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 $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section id="id48c8421b-f401-41b8-b166-13cb1246930d" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>107.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Midsize and large drinking water system infrastructure resilience and sustainability program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Part E of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j">42 U.S.C. 300j</external-xref> et seq.) (as amended by section 106) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="idbe804e50-dc2b-4409-88c7-c7c34de4cdda" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" style="OLC" act-name=""><section id="id82f87f51-b24d-4ab0-8446-a81549ce4576" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>1459F.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Midsize and large drinking water system infrastructure resilience and sustainability program</header><subsection id="id6ed770a3-0c06-4ef5-bbf6-14368aea4d8c" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph id="idb8b69e8a-b85a-407e-af61-be7ac31f469f" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible entity</term> means a public water system that serves a community with a population of 10,000 or more.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idca323086-42ba-47ad-b4c3-b9c53a7c7fb9" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Natural hazard; resilience</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>resilience</term> and <term>natural hazard</term> have the meanings given those terms in section 1433(h).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id29816983-31d0-4137-b635-a916048a9564" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Resilience and sustainability program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>resilience and sustainability program</term> means the Midsize and Large Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Program established under subsection (b).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idbfe584e4-d4c7-4393-8977-6dc3d177eab5" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall establish and carry out a program, to be known as the <quote>Midsize and Large Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Program</quote>, under which the Administrator, subject to the availability of appropriations for the resilience and sustainability program, shall award grants to eligible entities for the purpose of—</text><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id6163782992244A28A06BCBBA9D4C8BDF" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">increasing resilience to natural hazards and extreme weather events; and</text></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id6024F1760A0B44E6AB7DD9AA5A139901" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reducing cybersecurity vulnerabilities.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id0a30d6b0-3889-4847-a25a-9da1ceb2a713" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible entity may only use grant funds received under the resilience and sustainability program to assist in the planning, design, construction, implementation, operation, or maintenance of a program or project that increases resilience to natural hazards and extreme weather events, or reduces cybersecurity vulnerabilities, through—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id346e13fe-0bee-4e48-a28d-5654546bf911" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the conservation of water or the enhancement of water-use efficiency;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8f6b0e15-96e0-4f86-9f29-3893277f7a7e" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the modification or relocation of existing drinking water system infrastructure made, or that is at risk of being, significantly impaired by natural hazards or extreme weather events, including risks to drinking water from flooding;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0c6435bc-4ad2-48cb-9ff1-ebe0cea73523" changed="not-changed"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the design or construction of new or modified desalination facilities to serve existing communities; </text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id53431f90-7f05-4427-ba2f-3a256dbab601" changed="not-changed"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the enhancement of water supply through the use of watershed management and source water protection;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7d5951fc-09c7-47b1-a9e9-f44d8f903b8b" changed="not-changed"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the enhancement of energy efficiency or the use and generation of renewable energy in the conveyance or treatment of drinking water;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idff6c4316-1a62-4a2c-9e8e-003e166259a0" changed="not-changed"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the development and implementation of measures—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" id="idFC9274E2C6F947B2BBA593605C638B57"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to increase the resilience of the eligible entity to natural hazards and extreme weather events; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="idFEAD25E14A68465A86955794A87310A4"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="idF211230CD0934AC0848F45B777055627"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the conservation of water or the enhancement of a water supply through the implementation of water reuse measures; or</text></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="id0DEA86B16E5B45D3879FF9F922935177"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the formation of regional water partnerships to collaboratively address documented water shortages.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id737f820d-8456-4b12-9e49-82e833213f3b" changed="not-changed"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To seek a grant under the resilience and sustainability program, an eligible entity shall submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator may require, including—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb23499e4-479b-416b-ad0a-3635b14ee61b" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a proposal of the program or project to be planned, designed, constructed, implemented, operated, or maintained by the eligible entity;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0772a040-05e4-4fd4-ba83-385ccd9331fe" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an identification of the natural hazard risks, extreme weather events, or potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities, as applicable, to be addressed by the proposed program or project;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8257ed83-109b-41db-8759-f49089433899" changed="not-changed"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">documentation prepared by a Federal, State, regional, or local government agency of the natural hazard risk, potential cybersecurity vulnerability, or risk for extreme weather events to the area where the proposed program or project is to be located;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide92334ac-c386-436f-851d-09e8dce8f125" changed="not-changed"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of any recent natural hazards, cybersecurity events, or extreme weather events that have affected the community water system of the eligible entity;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3ece8945-fc7f-4acb-9a75-cb81a4f42c57" changed="not-changed"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of how the proposed program or project would improve the performance of the community water system of the eligible entity under the anticipated natural hazards, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, or extreme weather events; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id49d75762-7c4e-46e3-95c5-d419d4a9900e" changed="not-changed"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an explanation of how the proposed program or project is expected—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" id="id1E935B73E8CB4BFE8B043BFC3C9B6631"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to enhance the resilience of the community water system of the eligible entity to the anticipated natural hazards or extreme weather events; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="idBC81EC0234FE4F94B4C351C9EAC5C29C"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idFB2B6D22816D4317A85F2496C26F2591" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that describes the implementation of the resilience and sustainability program, which shall include a description of the use and deployment of amounts made available to carry out the resilience and sustainability program. </text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida752e556-5437-4598-92f2-d066199c739d" changed="not-changed"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" id="id1092DF7DA6DA4249A2645A3A79F18D30"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the resilience and sustainability program $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" id="id658C89ADA13144119E0BF34C5C397C18"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available under paragraph (1) for grants to eligible entities under the resilience and sustainability program—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" id="idC21D04639A8B4438B44D58633B7111F7"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">50 percent shall be used to provide grants to eligible entities that serve a population of—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" id="idB5C56177D0F947098234499849F60725"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">equal to or greater than 10,000; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" id="id0042DCE1B7EA489286E93BCD7A9743F9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fewer than 100,000; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8F06F7E207E44BC5A092B4D455A679F0" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">50 percent shall be used to provide grants to eligible entities that serve a population equal to or greater than 100,000.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAA3EA88C21F74DCEA09E517FF546EC2A"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative costs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available under paragraph (1), not more than 2 percent may be used by the Administrator for the administrative costs of carrying out the resilience and sustainability program.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section id="ida2a258ed12d64b68b498c6a5c098b68d" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>108.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Needs assessment for nationwide rural and urban low-income community water assistance</header><subsection id="id25ba3cdaad544ad5a42541e1379d0ea2" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section and section 109:</text><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="idC11D04C5CBF14738875618A50CC842AE" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Community water system</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>community water system</term> has the meaning given the term in section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300f">42 U.S.C. 300f</external-xref>). </text></paragraph><paragraph id="idCAB24999667D480F9009F21AAC1820F3" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Large water service provider</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>large water service provider</term> means a community water system, treatment works, or municipal separate storm sewer system that serves more than 100,000 people.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idAC6D636A9DE54D60982F74423F059C02" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Medium water service provider</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>medium water service provider</term> means a community water system, treatment works, or municipal separate storm sewer system that serves more than 10,000 people and not more than 100,000 people.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idFAA15E9152E646B58D646B4B3EA6DC83" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Need</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>need</term>, with respect to a qualifying household, means the expenditure of a disproportionate amount of household income on access to public drinking water or wastewater services.</text></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="idF2AA35C47DE847B58DCD44B2D799547A" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Qualifying household</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>qualifying household</term> means a household that—</text><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id028CBB07E0CE484684B6595B0BCE9F59" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes an individual who is—</text><clause changed="not-changed" id="id8460C3E30AA54BB995B64A03ADB023BA" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the holder of an account for drinking water or wastewater service that is provided to that household by a large water service provider, a medium water service provider, or a rural water service provider; or</text></clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="id3AB12E3E4EA546B2977B056DDA1C1245" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">separately billed by a landlord that holds an account with a large water service provider, a medium water service provider, or a rural water service provider for the cost of drinking water or wastewater service provided to that household by the respective large water service provider, medium water service provider, or rural water service provider; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id83F45572CC5C4818909F8A55C751815D" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is determined—</text><clause changed="not-changed" id="id010ABC27BCF24A24898AF8268346A98C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by a large water service provider, a medium water service provider, or a rural water service provider to be eligible for assistance through a low-income ratepayer assistance program;</text></clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="id0DDFB9C4AF4D4973829542BA8830CE16" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by the Governor of the State in which the household is located to be low-income, based on the affordability criteria established by the State under section 1452(d)(3) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-12">42 U.S.C. 300j–12(d)(3)</external-xref>);</text></clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="id5226C8DF10C9418E8FD700B730A64772" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by the Administrator to experience drinking water and wastewater service costs that exceed the metrics of affordability established in the most recent guidance of the Administrator entitled <quote>Financial Capability Assessment Guidance</quote>; or</text></clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="idE937E0CCE57A40E3B8801A9B312959C7" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of a household serviced by a rural water service provider, by the State in which the household is located to have an annual income that does not exceed the greater of—</text><subclause changed="not-changed" id="id0F0901AF846D4E8EB0EA078DF5AEDBE5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an amount equal to 150 percent of the poverty level of that State; and</text></subclause><subclause changed="not-changed" id="id8E13242CA8C847B4A4FEC20E90CAEC18" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an amount equal to 60 percent of the State median income for that State.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id98A298FF5E8048189123722F2A8CEF9B" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rural water service provider</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>rural water service provider</term> means a community water system, treatment works, or municipal separate storm sewer system that serves not more than 10,000 people.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idAA9173865E014AC9B6ED3E4693413F50" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Treatment works</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>treatment works</term> has the meaning given the term in section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1292">33 U.S.C. 1292</external-xref>).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id35421d149fe545fb982fcb09e8d5b28f" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Study; report</header><paragraph id="idbd6cb1e19da848b6a48dd0a3e638e22f" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall conduct, and submit to Congress a report describing the results of, a study that examines the prevalence throughout the United States of municipalities, public entities, or Tribal governments that—</text><subparagraph id="idA8531C0C86B64213B3C81143E8630BE7" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are serviced by rural water service providers, medium water service providers, or large water service providers that service a disproportionate percentage, as determined by the Administrator, of qualifying households with need; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id39DB4F9068C44F37B9EACC8C62C7FE22" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">as determined by the Administrator, have taken on an unsustainable level of debt due to customer nonpayment for the services provided by a large water service provider, a medium water service provider, or a rural water service provider.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id9024e8699a114463be7ac06c250cbc28" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Affordability inclusions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The report under paragraph (1) shall include—</text><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id50DE6DEA75714C62B10B255D325AFE0E" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a definition of the term <quote>affordable access to water services</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id3AC0B2D3F2734405BBA20E830F52B99E" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the criteria used in defining <quote>affordable access to water services</quote> under subparagraph (A);</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="idC23E409B753A4A39B2A33971D0ECD194" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a definition of the term <quote>lack of affordable access to water services</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="idDC56485EA63D409B92C93FB677A82155" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the methodology and criteria used in defining <quote>lack of affordable access to water services</quote> under subparagraph (C);</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id861125455CD744F8A5B1585F9C7EF4FE" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a determination of the prevalence of a lack of affordable access to water services, as defined under subparagraph (C);</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="idE91671EBB5ED48F9996EE67A2F607D96" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the methodology and criteria used to determine the prevalence of a lack of affordable access to water services under subparagraph (E);</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="idCE87AE7C9FD0420BAC6ACDFCC9612181" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any additional information with respect to the affordable access to water services, as defined under subparagraph (A), provided by rural water service providers, medium water service providers, and large water service providers; </text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id863e3e35d414441d936ea7908ca4f9c6" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with respect to the development of the report, a consultation with all relevant stakeholders, including rural advocacy associations;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idc55f13aebe3e4bcda979b9eaa26c7813" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">recommendations of the Administrator regarding the best methods to reduce the prevalence of a lack of affordable access to water services, as defined under subparagraph (C); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idac19f5f603c244b6b38ebbf460d7af63" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(J)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the cost of each method described in subparagraph (I).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id6a9b5bcf678344798b1a01b5e6ffb1ab" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agreements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may enter into an agreement with another Federal agency to carry out the study under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id05CB8FF61E62488EB2B872A202D7A3B8" section-type="subsequent-section" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>109.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rural and low-income water assistance pilot program</header><subsection id="idE79B1BB9E7F140CF8359D164DA6DDB11" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph id="idF97649FA5A164562B7C24550B8018AA9" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible entity</term> means—</text><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id0F62A32AF2DF48668F7120AA33361D86" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a municipality, Tribal government, or other entity that—</text><clause id="idEB9BFFF6C21C4A9E9E76ADEE76138430" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">owns or operates a community water system, treatment works, or municipal separate storm sewer system; or</text></clause><clause id="idABFEC139564E43C5A2D57EE27CEC1975" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">as determined by the Administrator, has taken on an unsustainable level of debt due to customer nonpayment for the services provided by a community water system, treatment works, or municipal separate storm sewer system; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id718FDF3D3FCA4AD6992294FC94D1CFF3" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a State exercising primary enforcement responsibility over a rural water service provider under the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300f">42 U.S.C. 300f</external-xref> et seq.) or the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1251">33 U.S.C. 1251</external-xref> et seq.), as applicable.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id32F3FA33CF1A419D9FF91F0D32A91495" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pilot program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>pilot program</term> means the pilot program established by the Administrator under subsection (b)(1). </text></paragraph><paragraph id="id6149945F2E734E3E813AE1396A3F5B33" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Water services needs assessment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>water services needs assessment</term> means the report required under section 108(b)(1). </text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id2E7B2A79D7704C8E91358E18AEA2DB20" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><paragraph id="id14CE489C5AFA4A40A3C9BE5E8DBB5F3C" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><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 pilot program to award grants to eligible entities to develop and implement programs to assist qualifying households with need in maintaining access to drinking water and wastewater treatment.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id8D4F9312E38B4BE29775758CE7D6259C" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In establishing the pilot program, the Administrator shall ensure that data from the water services needs assessment directly contributes to the structure of the pilot program by informing the types of assistance and criteria used for priority consideration with the demonstrated need from the study conducted under section 108(b)(1) and the water services needs assessment.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id002C748770AD49BDB3FDB576268F4772" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of funds limitations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A grant under the pilot program—</text><subparagraph id="idE2EB66263B16455D941890EA101CA6CB" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall not be used to replace funds for any existing similar program; but</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id1D135167A1CB4B15AC31E60A9866223C" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may be used to supplement or enhance an existing program, including a program that receives assistance from other Federal grants.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id3BF9EC60F41D453D9F6858E9534FDCD8" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Term</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term of a grant awarded under the pilot program shall be subject to the availability of appropriations.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idF35F76FF02F4456C930FAB94F9F0CE68" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Types of assistance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In establishing the pilot program, the Administrator may include provisions for—</text><subparagraph id="idAF15D1AE26BC449B8E788E11306A6604" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">direct financial assistance;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA4CA8B5B2D904F409C11A22BEBF1EBCE" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a lifeline rate;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2322F9ACA170477C95F41A26A8881C73" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">bill discounting;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6A7B9F078C034E8994FE520BDDAF559F" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">special hardship provisions;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id78D84F7C49E1446EBDAE002A80561ACA" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a percentage-of-income payment plan; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id03C3952D7C1B483A9BA81F8C80E5AC90" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">debt relief for the eligible entity or the community water system owned by the eligible entity for debt that is due to customer nonpayment for the services provided by the eligible entity or the community water system that is determined by the Administrator to be in the interest of public health.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idAC0C253984104BC7ABF37E2A5F53AE6E" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall award not more than 40 grants under the pilot program, of which—</text><subparagraph id="id1CDE980AC23A45779363590F1C75A41D" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not more than 8 shall be to eligible entities that own, operate, or exercise primary enforcement responsibility over a rural water service provider under the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300f">42 U.S.C. 300f</external-xref> et seq.) or the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1251">33 U.S.C. 1251</external-xref> et seq.), as applicable;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id55974CF05BE8416DA757FD25AA1FADF1" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not more than 8 shall be to eligible entities that own or operate a medium water service provider;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5DCEC13A014247179012A8209FDBAF48" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not more than 8 shall be to eligible entities that own or operate a large water service provider that serves not more than 500,000 people;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="id50BBF190DED048EFACDCE2DBC40E5034" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not more than 8 shall be to eligible entities that own or operate a large water service provider that serves more than 500,000 people; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0C349B2EE1BC44C6B4FFCFAB1B5AF465" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not more than 8 shall be to eligible entities that own or operate a community water system, treatment works, or municipal separate storm sewer system that services a disadvantaged community (consistent with the affordability criteria established by the applicable State under section 1452(d)(3) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-12">42 U.S.C. 300j–12(d)(3)</external-xref>) or section 603(i)(2) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1383">33 U.S.C. 1383(i)(2)</external-xref>), as applicable).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idBC708D80359A4273BA771337F5CB2F1F" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Criteria</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to any priority criteria established by the Administrator in response to the findings in the water services needs assessment, in awarding grants under the pilot program, the Administrator shall give priority consideration to eligible entities that—</text><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="idA609AF37393A4736BAAC3392C641B1C0" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">serve a disproportionate percentage, as determined by the Administrator, of qualifying households with need, as identified in the water services needs assessment;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="idDCEDF4B1634C49109C61D2D3BFAEEBF9" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are subject to State or Federal enforcement actions relating to compliance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1251">33 U.S.C. 1251</external-xref> et seq.) or the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300f">42 U.S.C. 300f</external-xref> et seq.); or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id3DA407AF1DCF4619A571F32B5CE9FC1B" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">maintain or participate in an existing community assistance program with objectives similar to the objectives of the pilot program, as determined by the Administrator.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id37B2A2648A82428B848CDCC499667389" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(8)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reporting requirements</header><subparagraph id="id0E4EE3E0F7844D348DC9900BD69ACF5F" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to any other applicable Federal or agency-specific grant reporting requirements, as a condition of receiving a grant under the pilot program, an eligible entity (or a State, on behalf of an eligible entity) shall submit to the Administrator an annual report that summarizes, in a manner determined by the Administrator, the use of grant funds by the eligible entity, including—</text><clause id="idF363ACF632B84E429BC429D51CC8DFF9" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">key features of the assistance provided by the eligible entity;</text></clause><clause id="ide88e17f190b2404790af498992ed57b0" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">sources of funding used to supplement Federal funds; and</text></clause><clause id="iddcc7f78200124605a5105c47fe60a5c0" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">eligibility criteria.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id85A25F87A3BA4D789DECEF91C7A2A1A5" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Publication</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall publish each report submitted under subparagraph (A).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idC335BC9017DC484780E645D0849BCE8B" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical assistance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall provide technical assistance to each eligible entity, and each State, on behalf of an eligible entity, that receives a grant under the pilot program to support implementation of the program.</text></subsection><subsection id="id09BAB2D2EDA041E4AD653141E2ADF1DF" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date on which grant funds are first disbursed to an eligible entity (or a State, on behalf of an eligible entity) under the program, and every year thereafter for the duration of the terms of the grants, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report on the results of the pilot program.</text></subsection></section><section id="idd47e8dcb-d6af-4d0d-8f80-0edeaf267467" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>110.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Lead contamination in school drinking water</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1464 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-24">42 U.S.C. 300j–24</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="ide6fbc78a-0628-405e-a1d2-b5de85f00308" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)— </text><subparagraph id="idf181724e-4a18-4130-8d5e-25cd5730d7ee" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by inserting <quote>public water systems and</quote> after <quote>to assist</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9cedd2e1-e1f7-4a81-aec9-187bdabdfef0" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the third sentence, by inserting <quote>public water systems,</quote> after <quote>schools,</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id0952c39d-30fc-4c69-b229-bda4ab04517c" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d)—</text><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="idE87D2065E9B84ADD8C9D63B6F6DDF397" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the subsection heading, by inserting <quote><header-in-text style="OLC" level="subsection">and reduction</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text style="OLC" level="subsection">lead testing</header-in-text></quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id980c9e88-ca5f-43c0-8b65-7248069bbf16" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)—</text><clause changed="not-changed" id="id965FA83B401845C4A5996228774A1B69" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>the Administrator</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting the following: </text><quoted-block id="id1096D92076334C59BF99EF3ED4487229" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="yes-display-inline"><text>the Administrator shall establish a voluntary school and child care program lead testing, compliance monitoring, and lead reduction grant program to make grants available to—</text><clause id="id2F217DCFC15246A5A569665A9A8FEF82" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">States to assist local educational agencies, public water systems that serve schools and child care programs under the jurisdiction of those local educational agencies, and qualified nonprofit organizations in voluntary testing or compliance monitoring for and remediation of lead contamination in drinking water at schools and child care programs under the jurisdiction of those local educational agencies; and</text></clause><clause id="id23DB6C0CA9FF4E9C982C77F3E3208809" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">tribal consortia to assist tribal education agencies (as defined in section 3 of the National Environmental Education Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/5502">20 U.S.C. 5502</external-xref>)), public water systems that serve schools and child care programs under the jurisdiction of those tribal education agencies, and qualified nonprofit organizations in voluntary testing or compliance monitoring for and remediation of lead contamination in drinking water at schools and child care programs under the jurisdiction of those tribal education agencies.</text></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="idF6193C57EEB64D97BF7EAE8D4A49AF7D" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)—</text><subclause changed="not-changed" id="idC220B6054FAC4F5E800351201E1DF362" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting <quote>or compliance monitoring for or remediation of lead contamination</quote> after <quote>voluntary testing</quote>;</text></subclause><subclause id="id3f5ab8a7-21e7-42e0-aea6-4568ef0fd517" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (i), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text></subclause><subclause id="idae898083-5f70-4408-9c59-c37e98b7f6e1" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></subclause><subclause id="idfc32beef-8a87-4670-821b-afec60afcb23" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="ida33d7a32-9060-4195-aaea-57bbbea87a03" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><clause id="id3af9f7ce-c244-4194-af4b-d2c90d45720d" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any public water system that is located in a State that does not participate in the voluntary grant program established under subparagraph (A) that—</text><subclause id="ida8ac7ef5-b7b7-4100-8d88-239d0f61ee39" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assists schools or child care programs in lead testing; </text></subclause><subclause changed="not-changed" id="id8A8A183526324309874CA1DC50671BC3" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assists schools or child care programs with compliance monitoring;</text></subclause><subclause changed="not-changed" id="idF75D1BEBE2204EC9AB4E68DD63EEEAA6" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assists schools with carrying out projects to remediate lead contamination in drinking water; or</text></subclause><subclause id="id39008941-0322-4a74-9dbe-bead8dea824e" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provides technical assistance to schools or child care programs in carrying out lead testing; or</text></subclause></clause><clause id="idb305b3d8-757e-461d-809c-c4c1f7a4c761" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a qualified nonprofit organization, as determined by the Administrator.</text></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5474b8dd-01cb-4384-b650-4f32cd465729" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraphs (3), (5), (6), and (7), by striking <quote>State or local educational agency</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>State, local educational agency, public water system, tribal consortium, or qualified nonprofit organization</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id859c34bf-cab6-4b3f-8305-52b7d7ae6c43" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4)—</text><clause changed="not-changed" id="idB3ECDDF664D144A2A0B637526C0D0C66" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>States and local educational agencies</quote> and inserting <quote>States, local educational agencies, public water systems, tribal consortia, and qualified nonprofit organizations</quote>; and</text></clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="id4E0FCB06A2B343ACAA2E5D0142AF6DF7" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>or the remediation of</quote> after <quote>testing for</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id37b19f76-4087-460e-b249-6cf5a23680c5" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (6)—</text><clause id="id32464bac-dde0-40e8-8e39-d0a51ecb159c" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)—</text><subclause commented="no" changed="not-changed" id="id89C3452296F24DB6BBEE739F5C196C65" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>State or local educational agency</quote> and inserting <quote>State, local educational agency, public water system, tribal consortium, or qualified nonprofit agency</quote>; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" changed="not-changed" id="idEAF1B19942684626A3C3E86D7101E459" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>, public water system, tribal consortium, or qualified nonprofit organization</quote> after <quote>each local educational agency</quote>;</text></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="idb575b938-b54a-49b4-9363-7ab0238644f0" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)(ii)—</text><subclause commented="no" changed="not-changed" id="id3D98226FA80A4C43B5EC555C64D27E42" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>or tribal</quote> after <quote>applicable State</quote>; and</text></subclause><subclause changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="idAFDA53952161483A9CEAECFBB0FB2FFB" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>reducing lead</quote> and inserting <quote>voluntary testing or compliance monitoring for and remediation of lead contamination</quote>; and</text></subclause></clause><clause id="id6a4a597b-a731-4fbf-b936-7904668e5546" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)(i), by inserting <quote>applicable</quote> before <quote>local educational agency</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" changed="not-changed" id="id630E82B7DE5A4BDFA354982CA793AB33" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (7), by striking <quote>testing for</quote> and inserting <quote>testing or compliance monitoring for or remediation of</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="id8CD8334A4E15489A9BBBB6AF7E1035A6" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraph (8) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="idB0BEAC857C8B4C06A4471BAED24F019A" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="idC7439BFA52ED4655B4C284E3832A26B3" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(8)</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 subsection—</text><subparagraph id="id6C148CDDD17945ECAEC7840F66EC58E9" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$30,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="idBBADBB07C7D6430A9450C633D9EB9282" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$35,000,000 for fiscal year 2023;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="idCA5D8742804D4FC888531A2F5175E95B" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$40,000,000 for fiscal year 2024;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id73C3D8ABD51D453BA7757186EB1EFFDA" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$45,000,000 for fiscal year 2025; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idFBD538AE39F24091B7BCE273BEA2AED5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$50,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="id9b217edf-3ced-427f-9809-719f5cf64667" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>111.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Indian reservation drinking water program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2001 of the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (42 U.S.C. 300j–3c note; <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/115/270">Public Law 115–270</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="id909ccbdd-3647-4447-9472-4cd3e7094276" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)—</text><subparagraph id="id2640373a-7215-48ec-8d19-d023daf84c09" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking <quote>Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency</quote> and inserting <quote>The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (referred to in this section as the <term>Administrator</term>)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idab7841c3-af9a-4323-b69c-a4cafd9bdaa3" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>to implement</quote> in the matter preceding paragraph (1) and all that follows through the period at the end of paragraph (2) and inserting <quote>to implement eligible projects described in subsection (b).</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="idA93D28EA45164D0E8B1B193DD228EBC1" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b), by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="id5F51CA41669E414E858E9D8E13355AEF" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="id714AE34FB82D48D995497E1BAA6A3DC7" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that will—</text><subparagraph id="idB43675E32F19438785A8A214F45EA373" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improve water quality, water pressure, or water services through means such as connecting to, expanding, repairing, improving, or obtaining water from a public water system (as defined in section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300f">42 U.S.C. 300f</external-xref>)); or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idC759567837B444E696FE37588D71FC5F" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improve water quality or sanitation or wastewater services at a treatment works (as defined in section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1292">33 U.S.C. 1292</external-xref>)).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="id61b700aa-a955-45a5-8ad3-a8e21719e944" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (g);</text></paragraph><paragraph id="ide7e9615a-1117-4f4b-8826-b7ef6c84ff2f" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="id28b88670-e718-4d61-bed2-88d94f8e3b44" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subsection id="id2cccd919-9bdf-4c69-bd45-09f99ca18737" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Required projects</header><paragraph id="ide378802a-4922-48ac-8061-1a198b41f755" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If sufficient projects exist, of the funds made available to carry out this section, the Administrator shall use 50 percent to carry out—</text><subparagraph id="id43a132b3-cc0e-48c6-93eb-ae0cb5c63ee0" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">10 eligible projects described in subsection (b) that are within the Upper Missouri River Basin;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6ee7f33c-3819-44c5-9f59-ee1ed52204b0" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">10 eligible projects described in subsection (b) that are within the Upper Rio Grande Basin;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide04067c2-0b9f-4205-97d1-b6e045d053b7" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">10 eligible projects described in subsection (b) that are within the Columbia River Basin; </text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id29A5594A934146238D6C8704A85820B1" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">10 eligible projects described in subsection (b) that are within the Lower Colorado River Basin; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id550F918E02BE469082A89948DFE23189" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">10 eligible projects described in subsection (b) that are within the Arkansas-White-Red River Basin.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idde51d374-0b0d-4d14-a14f-134ac12ad8f7" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out paragraph (1)(A), the Administrator shall select not fewer than 2 eligible projects for a reservation that serves more than 1 federally recognized Indian Tribe.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="id435A16EDB8214FB39636362D4E760781" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In selecting projects to carry out under this section, the Administrator shall give priority to projects that—</text><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id094C515C91C449BE8C96EE7A2474780C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">respond to emergency situations occurring due to or resulting in a lack of access to clean drinking water that threatens the health of Tribal populations;</text></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="idD4AB296B997B463D98A90C8E658C6F51" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">would serve a Tribal population that would qualify as a disadvantaged community based on the affordability criteria established by the applicable State under section 1452(d)(3) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-12">42 U.S.C. 300j–12(d)(3)</external-xref>); or</text></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id7FB6C9ADCB164CAF957D885688CA3EFE" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">would address the underlying factors contributing to—</text><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id3200C8F0F9044E3B8E342B57CF8878C3" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an enforcement action commenced pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300f">42 U.S.C. 300f</external-xref> et seq.) against the applicable public water system (as defined in section 1401 of that Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300f">42 U.S.C. 300f</external-xref>)) as of the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id1CA375A4435247FC8D6172DB5BA29833" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an enforcement action commenced pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1251">33 U.S.C. 1251</external-xref> et seq.) against the applicable treatment works (as defined in section 212 of that Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1292">33 U.S.C. 1292</external-xref>)) as of the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id50788677-3549-4f76-8ca9-bd083a4b5461" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal share</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Federal share of the cost of a project carried out under this section shall be 100 percent.</text></subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="id2C523E292AB141FD90A43E623C6ED79D" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that describes the implementation of the program established under subsection (a), which shall include a description of the use and deployment of amounts made available under that program.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="id2e2e3f51-f240-4364-a749-1ab38afd13e5" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (g) (as so redesignated)—</text><subparagraph id="id8990de25-7e22-40a1-8dce-bebd3a8aee7d" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>There is</quote> and inserting <quote>There are</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id84aea113-83b7-4c1c-910f-279b12f548b4" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>subsection (a) $20,000,000</quote> and inserting the following: </text><quoted-block id="id2e412d56-ce65-4ce2-936e-5216d94fa91a" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="yes-display-inline" changed="not-changed"><text>subsection (a)—</text><paragraph id="id9df308fe-5c9a-4616-ae52-433de50a7be4" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$20,000,000</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id52a899d3-e861-4633-8aba-78413523bfe9" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1) (as so designated), by striking <quote>2022.</quote> and inserting <quote>2021; and</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id362e3d7a-cce3-43af-ab47-69a86cbe3511" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="idc0d32066-b26e-4f3f-8e90-6efa41974f91" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="id67721846-873c-4e35-9c9d-11414dcac813" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section changed="not-changed" id="id32E74E940B3B4B71823BC94AC321B1DE" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>112.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Advanced drinking water technologies</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Part E of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j">42 U.S.C. 300j</external-xref> et seq.) (as amended by section 107) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="idCF50AB4BAF584FD48E0A53206181D928" display-inline="no-display-inline" style="OLC"><section id="id0eba00b7-72bb-47bf-a7d1-80470766e43c" section-type="subsequent-section" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>1459G.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Advanced drinking water technologies</header><subsection id="id918ecd99-23d0-43c6-9662-e6d391119f11" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Study</header><paragraph id="idb22d4141-0ea8-47a7-b6dd-9f5477b4f9f5" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator shall carry out a study that examines the state of existing and potential future technology, including technology that could address cybersecurity vulnerabilities, that enhances or could enhance the treatment, monitoring, affordability, efficiency, and safety of drinking water provided by a public water system.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id0814c3a5-308e-4ad3-96ed-1dca8360defe" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report that describes the results of the study under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id85d58a22-2a87-4412-9450-7d1d12cab466" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Advanced drinking water technology grant program</header><paragraph commented="no" id="id0f084097-98f3-4d1a-bd90-4deb0a216368" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection:</text><subparagraph commented="no" id="id83199ef5-5f6c-42fd-9394-af2eb4519045" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible entity</term> means the owner or operator of a public water system that—</text><clause commented="no" id="id869a5f11-3b38-48b3-b4f1-fd7337d7b04c" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">serves—</text><subclause commented="no" id="id0bdd0a89-42d6-4b12-b9cd-06b99bd365f7" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a population of not more than 100,000 people; or</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="idc79bbdd0-b718-4b25-9a82-c3ec15ecdb1f" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a community described in section 1459A(c)(2);</text></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="id725d4229-fba0-4c16-94b3-d1f02de915dc" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has plans to identify or has identified opportunities in the operations of the public water system to employ new, existing, or emerging, yet proven, technologies, including technology that could address cybersecurity vulnerabilities, as determined by the Administrator, that enhance treatment, monitoring, affordability, efficiency, or safety of the drinking water provided by the public water system, including technologies not identified in the study conducted under subsection (a)(1); and</text></clause><clause id="idA36CF333CFA14D1299D6954E27A4EA24" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has expressed an interest in the opportunities in the operation of the public water system to employ new, existing, or emerging, yet proven, technologies, including technology that could address cybersecurity vulnerabilities, as determined by the Administrator, that enhance treatment, monitoring, affordability, efficiency, or safety of the drinking water provided by the public water system, including technologies not identified in the study conducted under subsection (a)(1). </text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id54c9bab6-6b75-425d-baa7-66056d855fd3" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>program</term> means the competitive grant program established under paragraph (2).</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id9b2859f1-f19a-457b-9faf-68e8bab48b3e" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Underserved community</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>underserved community</term> means a political subdivision of a State that, as determined by the Administrator, has an inadequate system for obtaining drinking water.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id94625965-3bc4-4557-81d4-d3cf294b261d" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall establish a competitive grant program under which the Administrator shall award grants to eligible entities for the purpose of identifying, deploying, or identifying and deploying technologies described in paragraph (1)(A)(ii). </text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id69e51915-1869-4d7a-a933-8e60195e9a75" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements</header><subparagraph commented="no" id="idddf25b8e-59ff-40ac-8a9d-6e78e04eaf3b" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To be eligible to receive a grant under the program, an eligible entity shall submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator may require.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id0562fcac-9837-4a2f-a2d4-79a3174e9b72" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal share</header><clause commented="no" id="id200fa3a2-5508-45a3-9f2c-88de3a3d1e24" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to clause (ii), the Federal share of the cost of a project carried out using a grant under the program shall not exceed 90 percent of the total cost of the project.</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="idabbee57f-25f5-467c-aad5-ada219a15465" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Waiver</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may increase the Federal share under clause (i) to 100 percent 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></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id8fcfe206-5e35-4210-97bf-fbab0e1701b4" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date on which the Administrator first awards a grant under the program, and annually thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report describing—</text><subparagraph commented="no" id="id1fb03d9c-50c8-4d08-a017-f1c23ca4943f" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each recipient of a grant under the program during the previous 1-year period; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id35851dc0-8a2e-409d-aacf-950d55bf1523" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a summary of the activities carried out using grants awarded under the program.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id9931585a-a5a8-4b96-9841-61cc71c68d44" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funding</header><subparagraph commented="no" id="id31aa581b-8ca0-429c-b2ba-b69a5c064feb" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><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 carry out the program $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, to remain available until expended.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idafbbdf0a-fa5a-4b8e-91b5-1e035142fbca" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative costs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not more than 2 percent of the amount made available for a fiscal year under subparagraph (A) to carry out the program may be used by the Administrator for the administrative costs of carrying out the program.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section id="id3DDE029D79214DFA938F04F1E0F4C8ED" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>113.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cybersecurity support for public water systems</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Part B of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300g">42 U.S.C. 300g</external-xref> et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id26F19F4EAC14466193CFBE1924205A16"><section id="id15EE8C5A6A6744BE9453FC5F5FCE3105" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>1420A.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cybersecurity support for public water systems</header><subsection id="id214797CE6F73445DAEF3429FA0A465A2" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph id="id6D11CF70EDC04C5089D100581D30A3A2" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appropriate Congressional committees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>appropriate Congressional committees</term> means—</text><subparagraph id="id9DE6EA3C9A484379B52B88300848366E" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6A7AFA0430D34D73A18445733CC12159" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idB997B95D563C4025ACBDB5F3E6968F2E" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6A9DCE93374B4374A13308A6F724805C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idEE9D7B34C46B4A7E94777CB7FB1C786E" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Director</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Director</term> means the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id82CCB19639D64CD3ACA267150E6A85F4" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Incident</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>incident</term> has the meaning given the term in section 3552 of title 44, United States Code.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id9E302DC6CDEA42A59D07D040FCA92CB1" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prioritization Framework</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Prioritization Framework</term> means the prioritization framework developed by the Administrator under subsection (b)(1)(A).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id72F94D88B1C947178D06C35A8317FCFD" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Support Plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Support Plan</term> means the Technical Cybersecurity Support Plan developed by the Administrator under subsection (b)(2)(A).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id96F25F64D8474833ACA822C097C3B10C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Identification of and support for public water systems</header><paragraph id="idC9616F60AD904B41BB70554D69CE0D50" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prioritization framework</header><subparagraph id="id9146181B7B1741689018F17DEB0C1BB5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator, in coordination with the Director, shall develop a prioritization framework to identify public water systems (including sources of water for those public water systems) that, if degraded or rendered inoperable due to an incident, would lead to significant impacts on the health and safety of the public.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idEA5B1F7F3D654F98814F5B2F413069AA" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Considerations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In developing the Prioritization Framework, to the extent practicable, the Administrator shall incorporate consideration of—</text><clause id="id7ED1A49979C34306BD63024F0D2DCE5E" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether cybersecurity vulnerabilities for a public water system have been identified under section 1433;</text></clause><clause id="id6E584ABCB62D4C068FEB09D9C08BC7E1" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the capacity of a public water system to remediate a cybersecurity vulnerability without additional Federal support;</text></clause><clause id="id3DC036D0CDEF4C1B8384517005DA0037" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether a public water system serves a defense installation or critical national security asset; and</text></clause><clause id="idD0CE4AAAA6004F16B8DB065483BEBECA" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether a public water system, if degraded or rendered inoperable due to an incident, would cause a cascading failure of other critical infrastructure.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idD2547638FE4042A6B72759F2DC229AAF" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical Cybersecurity Support Plan</header><subparagraph id="idB38D5B68BFEA4B2E99A3BB985A89DDC5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator, in coordination with the Director and using existing authorities of the Administrator and the Director for providing voluntary support to public water systems and the Prioritization Framework, shall develop a Technical Cybersecurity Support Plan for public water systems.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id4C7B03592D6E44B68C3BFC3244137C8B" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Support Plan—</text><clause id="id8AAC54F540E046C99420162D864B3A2C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall establish a methodology for identifying specific public water systems for which cybersecurity support should be prioritized;</text></clause><clause id="id4EA85429A9FB43F4AB113BAD7121EBF7" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall establish timelines for making voluntary technical support for cybersecurity available to specific public water systems;</text></clause><clause id="id88B095EE8A204307AC30C96B7E8C19C2" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may include public water systems identified by the Administrator, in coordination with the Director, as needing technical support for cybersecurity;</text></clause><clause id="id8750B00238764621B5A9CF0C08D243D6" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall include specific capabilities of the Administrator and the Director that may be utilized to provide support to public water systems under the Support Plan, including—</text><subclause id="id9624639A65DC4208AC12BA58C6BBF768" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">site vulnerability and risk assessments;</text></subclause><subclause id="id7075E92D881A491DB6CE8E21C334E718" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">penetration tests; and</text></subclause><subclause id="idDE2BDC551E03477485EF1A76A8F36443" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any additional support determined to be appropriate by the Administrator; and</text></subclause></clause><clause id="id37A0CE5D00DB43E1ACE950EB575EAC98" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall only include plans for providing voluntary support to public water systems.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idC5C7B91965CC49A6B2976D39C2DDB20C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consultation required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In developing the Prioritization Framework pursuant to paragraph (1) and the Support Plan pursuant to paragraph (2), the Administrator shall consult with such Federal or non-Federal entities as determined to be appropriate by the Administrator.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idFEA0B28FD10E448D85B98FABAB4519BC" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports required</header><subparagraph id="idDBF3B2CFB83741E1992647DCD009BA88" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prioritization framework</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 190 days after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator shall submit to the appropriate Congressional committees a report describing the Prioritization Framework.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6F720714C7C4469695808D9F5BED53E8" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical Cybersecurity Support Plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 280 days after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator shall submit to the appropriate Congressional committees—</text><clause id="id3CA7810134E24F97B57BAFB18DA01A1D" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Support Plan; and</text></clause><clause id="idB0A004EAFAD8480EA37780F1BF4D5714" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a list describing any public water systems identified by the Administrator, in coordination with the Director, as needing technical support for cybersecurity during the development of the Support Plan.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id1F44E3FC8CCD479A86FA24FD2247319E" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rules of construction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this section—</text><paragraph id="id884E303C1AD84676B16F1BCD7C4D993B" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">alters the existing authorities of the Administrator; or</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id1DA98EC6BE674D43B5208C8663C57B42" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">compels a public water system to accept technical support offered by the Administrator.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section id="id08C4D053BD474A2D8FCC7FAE19762EB1"><enum>114.</enum><header>State response to contaminants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1459A(j)(1) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–19a(j)(1)) is amended—</text><paragraph id="id7C328BA6CC4149249FC6091B6F4922F2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>an underserved community</quote> and inserting <quote>a community described in subsection (c)(2)</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id16AAF7F6F7C64426B868FFF4A0CB39EC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking <quote>such underserved</quote> and inserting <quote>that</quote>.</text></paragraph></section><section id="id387F56250A8040938B3A8C1068349A20"><enum>115.</enum><header>Annual study on boil water advisories</header><subsection id="idD1C1719375FE478E98A255571036DFD4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Administrator shall conduct a study on the prevalence of boil water advisories issued in the United States.</text></subsection><subsection id="idBB720B5BF5EA4B92B8C8E980068C43AD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><paragraph id="id7691FBC4509D4CED8E264BE9A010F0CF"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Administrator shall submit to Congress a report describing the results of the most recent study conducted under subsection (a) as part of the annual budget request transmitted to Congress under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id6200054EA6CF4E6C929982FE4CD150C7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text>In the annual report required under paragraph (1), the Administrator shall include a description of the reasons for which boil water advisories were issued during the year covered by the report.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clean water</header><section id="idEB68FF48742940C99302751156761841" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research, investigations, training, and information</header><subsection id="id6EF243D340DE4B26B7D34C6AE36C929C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reauthorization</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 104(u) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1254">33 U.S.C. 1254(u)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="id2F99CBAF1BFA4B7AB6574BD4A0E9A3DA" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and (7)</quote> and inserting <quote>(7)</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idCB293556060B4B898795B99FD1FCF794" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (7)—</text><subparagraph id="idE63F8FA2865A404695DB6A4010BA1CAB" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>2023</quote> and inserting <quote>2021</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id69CF10150D48484C8A3A92ACAA569313" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and (8) not to exceed $75,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for carrying out subsections (b)(3), (b)(8), and (g), of which not less than $50,000,000 each fiscal year shall be used to carry out subsection (b)(8).</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idD2645F274D0C4303AB67EC2E6530CF89" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Communication</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each nonprofit organization that receives funding under paragraph (8) of section 104(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1254">33 U.S.C. 1254(b)</external-xref>) shall, before using that funding to undertake activities to carry out that paragraph, consult with the State in which the assistance is to be expended or otherwise made available.</text></subsection><subsection id="id09D20E0FA72A4018A8552E18F4D1F156" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that describes the implementation of the grants authorized under subsections (b)(3), (b)(8), and (g) of section 104 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1254">33 U.S.C. 1254</external-xref>), which shall include a description of the grant recipients and grant amounts made available to carry out those subsections.</text></subsection></section><section id="idA33C8EFBDF724F049531F3F382357EAD" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Wastewater efficiency grant pilot program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1281">33 U.S.C. 1281</external-xref> et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6C948DA0C1EC48729DDD7663F6C7B725"><section id="ida74dbd15-60e5-42cd-98d2-b33b02cb0016" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>222.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Wastewater efficiency grant pilot program</header><subsection id="id5581819f-f84f-4ea2-bca8-5f4d9098681e" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator shall establish a wastewater efficiency grant pilot program (referred to in this section as the <quote>pilot program</quote>) to award grants to owners or operators of publicly owned treatment works to carry out projects that create or improve waste-to-energy systems.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id555b4218-a138-413a-bbd4-a7590d9aff74" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Selection</header><paragraph commented="no" id="idfd4e730d-b360-4a37-8474-5dd635e8e66d" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To be eligible to receive a grant under the pilot program, an owner or operator of a treatment works shall submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator may require.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="idaae2a9be-b89f-440c-a99f-95fd56ef3bdd" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Number of recipients</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall select not more than 15 recipients of grants under the pilot program from applications submitted under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id59b5e386-b544-4627-a96b-4a9e1641bc8e" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of funds</header><paragraph id="id554854ff-d4ff-4e78-ac5c-7adc16ae7a8d" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (2), a recipient of a grant under the pilot program may use grant funds for—</text><subparagraph id="id3f3fac2d-5465-4c34-9ca2-88d94719cb19" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">sludge collection;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id94859989-bf41-46ba-bfa3-3645053d1e37" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">installation of anaerobic digesters;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id972b62d1-1b3b-4c3b-83d9-ae4e20ea908c" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">methane capture;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idf5726705-9c44-4e9f-af6c-692f2188bf45" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">methane transfer;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idc4bbf20b-f894-40da-9b0d-cfb09bf2e6a0" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">facility upgrades and retrofits necessary to create or improve waste-to-energy systems; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id51413c19-f0cc-4a41-b8bb-df9da7e01e97" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">other new and emerging, but proven, technologies that transform waste to energy.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id47964629-43ba-4f7e-9cf0-5f991935d35d" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A grant to a recipient under the pilot program shall be not more than $4,000,000.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idc193daa7-228f-4c4b-b461-99815c9a3b30" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports</header><paragraph commented="no" id="iddc0f6500-0f07-42af-a3aa-a13f85719a03" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report to the Administrator</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after receiving a grant under the pilot program and each year thereafter for which amounts are made available for the pilot program under subsection (e), the recipient of the grant shall submit to the Administrator a report describing the impact of that project on the communities within 3 miles of the treatment works.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id04161fe8-6890-4991-b69e-5e9ba98f3825" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after first awarding grants under the pilot program and each year thereafter for which amounts are made available for the pilot program under subsection (e), the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report describing—</text><subparagraph commented="no" id="id48ba6e90-02fa-4ee1-a198-0e0b621a184c" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the applications received by the Administrator for grants under the pilot program; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id4b59f35c-5227-4300-97aa-22234782e117" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the projects for which grants were awarded under the pilot program.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id8af61c70-b193-4502-8293-6a14c1f4353c" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><paragraph commented="no" id="idf4625893-4f1b-4976-bece-93e190ad634e" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the pilot program $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, to remain available until expended.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id5489326e-42e8-4e2a-9a53-043ae28e7b66" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available for grants under paragraph (1), not more than 2 percent may be used to pay the administrative costs of the Administrator. </text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="idc7c571bf-9a23-475b-a777-a6b9d5cf5c59" changed="not-changed" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pilot program for alternative water source projects</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 220 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1300">33 U.S.C. 1300</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id68040522-0a40-4972-91eb-f9018c8deca4" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b), in the heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text style="OLC" level="subsection">In General</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text style="OLC" level="subsection">Establishment</header-in-text></quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="ideefbd850-331b-4f2b-9b2b-042aa7f108ff" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d)—</text><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="id8B1571FFED5B42878278FD8420B04AB4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by inserting <quote>construction</quote> before <quote>funds</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id2189d2b8-ccf4-45a7-a167-c2ca1a55ef9a" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraph (2); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id830c2a55-a5fc-45a2-88a2-770074f5d487" changed="not-changed"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2);</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id2cd0fc8e-fd19-4f7d-8ced-b848f5b22a62" changed="not-changed"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsection (e);</text></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="idca427d56-ac79-414e-befe-5c0b578f937c" changed="not-changed"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (i)—</text><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="idd517c298-6533-4d03-8b66-fe7e96dbf47b" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking <quote>, the following definitions apply</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id0475b6c4-837c-4571-80d1-1e40bee63bc3" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), in the first sentence, by striking <quote>water or wastewater or by treating wastewater</quote> and inserting <quote>water, wastewater, or stormwater or by treating wastewater or stormwater for groundwater recharge, potable reuse, or other purposes</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="idf53b143d-7fcf-4dfe-9938-c71b806430e0" changed="not-changed"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (j)—</text><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id6307cf08-587c-4387-a22c-bbd97d44b765" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by striking <quote>There is</quote> and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="id08b5b359-9d7b-47c8-9fb5-65dffa839fd4" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="idd014d4a5-2796-46cc-881f-9f54c82fd545" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id92a42979-7c32-4dc2-843e-67ddf7684d30" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1) (as so designated), by striking <quote>a total of $75,000,000 for fiscal years 2002 through 2004. Such sums shall</quote> and inserting <quote>$25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, to</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="idcb18ef17-e939-4b25-9048-a2a357cb233a" changed="not-changed"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id05485fbc-e1cc-4bd5-9ab9-ab6aff397209" changed="not-changed"><paragraph id="idbc736d01-6326-4920-980e-3fdaa2043553" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available for grants under paragraph (1), not more than 2 percent may be used to pay the administrative costs of the Administrator.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="ida29178df-8c39-44c7-8355-ba9ac7427c50" changed="not-changed"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (b), (c), (d), (i), and (j) as subsections (c), (d), (e), (b), and (i), respectively, and moving those subsections so as to appear in alphabetical order. </text></paragraph></section><section id="id901c44ce-5564-4e47-843b-45707bd20cba" section-type="subsequent-section" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>204.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sewer overflow and stormwater reuse municipal grants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1301">33 U.S.C. 1301</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" id="id94d3d082-5f32-479f-b042-4e926eeec314" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)(1) —</text><subparagraph id="idb1e6d139-2ac3-4688-b5fd-f253589ef5da" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idec99c7a2-e983-45ba-a838-714d077d9aef" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idd6e450d0-5816-4be0-b21d-2de26c3a609c" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following:</text><quoted-block act-name="" id="idd1072124-2d4d-408c-83a1-9dea3b515d10" style="OLC" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="id684bb731-f821-46dd-9a2b-df4473eb8a34" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">notification systems to inform the public of combined sewer or sanitary overflows that result in sewage being released into rivers and other waters; and</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="idA904056AF40F40A09FE5C4DEC7F103EE" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d)—</text><subparagraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="id5E1A83C51C76473CBBBE751A826FC2E1" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence, by striking <quote>The non-Federal share of the cost</quote> and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="idEE58B0302FAD474F8F427FED7F041287" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="idE77186EE45C24F95B31B30B3A5B818CD" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Types of non-Federal share</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The applicable non-Federal share of the cost under this subsection</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="idF0FBE0E0FE104AD28B4CB1C656AB61E7" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by striking <quote>The Federal</quote> and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="idB9F2871209224F1D99FD138F824422D7" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="idB8819834C9B14E7A9DDA669FBB296E40" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Federal</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="id0FEB6CFF6C974655B28CAD6072552081" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after paragraph (1) (as so designated) the following:</text><quoted-block id="id7FE9B36BD49942F393B232741B5130AE" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="id51125E92A43B4218AF4B3965DA01AB18" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rural and financially distressed communities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the maximum extent practicable, the Administrator shall work with States to prevent the non-Federal share requirements under this subsection from being passed on to rural communities and financially distressed communities (as those terms are defined in subsection (f)(2)(B)(i)).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id5e61822a-b48d-427d-aa3c-0bb4c7a6998f" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (f)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" id="id0f9b3353-6278-4bbb-aa74-36b4c87d591f" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="idF4B12EEFC106475182EBAE124701329D" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="id6C6CE2A378624AC89FDF809C1ADF9264" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $280,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="ida6d53954-010d-430f-8d85-d4b2cfc64359" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)—</text><clause id="id907e55f0-9544-4a37-8083-76e2a9110e9a" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>To the extent</quote> and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="id7cdf1922-c546-4347-ae8e-1115e81781fc" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="id0f990a60-cff6-422d-b779-70ad40763e2e" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Green projects</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the extent</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause><clause id="id93c74273-ac69-4326-8367-7a4ea49ec4df" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="ida869cba8-ac19-4285-92ba-bf5f760627b9" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="ide99ee711-b562-4662-9949-324cc2a43db5" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rural or financially distressed community allocation</header><clause commented="no" id="id7f1f8ef3-3c7b-41fe-8e95-4c9b3f93fb8b" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subparagraph:</text><subclause commented="no" changed="not-changed" id="id2E24FFB205FD4426A651C97E6574F362" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Financially distressed community</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>financially distressed community</term> has the meaning given the term in subsection (c)(1).</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" changed="not-changed" id="idBF4970398BB74E2C8705352997407FE0" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rural community</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>rural community</term> means a city, town, or unincorporated area that has a population of not more than 10,000 inhabitants.</text></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="id10943acb-67fe-416d-a459-2e61b6a76fc5" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Allocation</header><subclause commented="no" changed="not-changed" id="id05C0E8761DEB4859827FC78CC5D6F003" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the extent there are sufficient eligible project applications, the Administrator shall ensure that a State uses not less than 25 percent of the amount of the grants made to the State under subsection (a) in a fiscal year to carry out projects in rural communities or financially distressed communities for the purpose of planning, design, and construction of—</text><item id="id53e42719-eb61-45f5-b27f-eb8637cb0662" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">treatment works to intercept, transport, control, treat, or reuse municipal sewer overflows, sanitary sewer overflows, or stormwater; or</text></item><item id="id623b5bf7-9231-46e7-83a9-daf25abbca83" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other measures to manage, reduce, treat, or recapture stormwater or subsurface drainage water eligible for assistance under section 603(c).</text></item></subclause><subclause commented="no" changed="not-changed" id="id6EE71CE47B3C4657936386477C721CA2" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rural communities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the funds allocated under subclause (I) for the purposes described in that subclause, to the extent there are sufficient eligible project applications, the Administrator shall ensure that a State uses not less than 60 percent to carry out projects in rural communities.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id83f36e0f3994494eabf8946a8fc08d28" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (i)—</text><subparagraph id="id9b110285ad444778a9a9d5b0126f3e90" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence, by striking <quote>The recommended funding levels</quote> and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52372d2cbfb44badaec7c798bb51c46b"><subparagraph id="iddf2f005fdae748b38d592cfe1ccdc498" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The funding levels recommended under subparagraph (A)(i)</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idf5050d10e23b4ad9a3ed71215e44ae88" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by striking <quote>Not later</quote> and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf9e0c09c0ce24939b9983c3548589442"><paragraph id="idd9b21871eca64416a05459a12f288801" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Periodic reports</header><subparagraph id="id82131f2b1ccc485aa8e0c3aab9756111" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2D8AD13F638F4229A3C3EBAF8A2A6A96" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)(A) (as so designated)—</text><clause id="idD2B228F67C4A49E2839AA77100B74B8C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;</text></clause><clause id="idB7D040AD4DCE4CC9BEEA2CFD3B3E89F5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>containing recommended</quote> and inserting the following: </text><quoted-block id="idD2697B0E7F684652AE7290079C0728C9" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="yes-display-inline"><text>containing—</text><clause id="id2299FFE6ED964D6781A01F356AEFF5E2" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">recommended</text></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause><clause id="id12BDCBEF595E4517BD1C15E9BDB6E111" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="idE01D80C880284B049C0F195D354EDABC" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><clause id="idD6F5B7D3207B46E5A682A4E7B1F6BEFC" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the extent to which States pass costs associated with the non-Federal share requirements under subsection (d) to local communities, with a focus on rural communities and financially distressed communities (as those terms are defined in subsection (f)(2)(B)(i)).</text></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idaf2e97fd718b488a9680f26a1b218d54" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="id053065BBA88C4A2F826C6F5DABE24C3E" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="idAFF2E6B2CE154D74B1E5675452C4049D" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report that describes the implementation of the grant program under this section, which shall include a description of the grant recipients, sources of funds for non-Federal share requirements under subsection (d), and grant amounts made available under the program.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="idc19851f3-3079-433a-9210-d37855a15ca6" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>205.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clean water infrastructure resiliency and sustainability program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1281">33 U.S.C. 1281</external-xref> et seq.) (as amended by section 202) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="id0fd51a37-3b85-44b2-93ba-2f0f617515a1" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" style="OLC"><section id="ida3f9705d-1eed-4877-97a1-38bd18a34a4b" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>223.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clean water infrastructure resiliency and sustainability program</header><subsection id="idb3e3b439-4037-4742-a1f3-035ac6fdf31f" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph id="id67ff587e-fe65-4b97-9948-f569dcfc6123" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible entity</term> means—</text><subparagraph id="id25de295b-18c5-45e6-9a8a-188ddebedbb3" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a municipality; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb74cb56a-1aaf-4225-9c97-3b40d2a4f78a" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an intermunicipal, interstate, or State agency.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ida3de2680-6ebd-42d5-b8ad-aa9437152821" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Natural hazard</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>natural hazard</term> means a hazard caused by natural forces, including extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and extreme drought conditions.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="ida62e8c8c-b2b1-49cd-8226-ff7a6aaf5f00" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>program</term> means the clean water infrastructure resilience and sustainability program established under subsection (b).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id47f98a9c-80be-4679-87f6-64f1cb524252" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator shall establish a clean water infrastructure resilience and sustainability program under which the Administrator shall award grants to eligible entities for the purpose of increasing the resilience of publicly owned treatment works to a natural hazard or cybersecurity vulnerabilities.</text></subsection><subsection id="id1e1dca28-a0f6-4551-a0a3-1c655a1d7aad" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible entity that receives a grant under the program shall use the grant funds for planning, designing, or constructing projects (on a system-wide or area-wide basis) that increase the resilience of a publicly owned treatment works to a natural hazard or cybersecurity vulnerabilities through—</text><paragraph id="id98d52a36-63d3-4e11-a563-2580f08f5af2" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the conservation of water;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id13be2bb8-091d-4126-9cb6-1cb3138effc6" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the enhancement of water use efficiency;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id5f7f8694-1d59-466b-b754-e204ac7c3ae5" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the enhancement of wastewater and stormwater management by increasing watershed preservation and protection, including through the use of—</text><subparagraph id="id12843b19-3a1b-4221-9ac9-29104c4ef81a" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">natural and engineered green infrastructure; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id682f5c46-1592-456e-8722-17c000f0fe66" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reclamation and reuse of wastewater and stormwater, such as aquifer recharge zones;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idca7a1c4e-21ca-4828-9f3e-a3be3f8dd5e3" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the modification or relocation of an existing publicly owned treatment works, conveyance, or discharge system component that is at risk of being significantly impaired or damaged by a natural hazard;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id50192e91-d79b-40f1-a110-36ad894cef86" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the development and implementation of projects to increase the resilience of publicly owned treatment works to a natural hazard or cybersecurity vulnerabilities, as applicable; or</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id0dab4cd3-e4b2-4855-910b-4607d42265fe" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the enhancement of energy efficiency or the use and generation of recovered or renewable energy in the management, treatment, or conveyance of wastewater or stormwater.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id933bfe58-7fc7-43d4-95f2-76feb5a0883a" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To be eligible to receive a grant under the program, an eligible entity shall submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator may require, including—</text><paragraph id="idf085a8cb-b24c-41ad-b28e-f9fda5ba9eba" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a proposal of the project to be planned, designed, or constructed using funds under the program;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id0dc8d3a6829a4fb69f5264e77e5dd8ed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an identification of the natural hazard risk of the area where the proposed project is to be located or potential cybersecurity vulnerability, as applicable, to be addressed by the proposed project;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id621a47b435eb42749fb1f5affeb51989" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">documentation prepared by a Federal, State, regional, or local government agency of the natural hazard risk of the area where the proposed project is to be located or potential cybersecurity vulnerability, as applicable, of the area where the proposed project is to be located;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id42fc49c50f94492da43bff0a1c2f6b71" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of any recent natural hazard risk of the area where the proposed project is to be located or potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities that have affected the publicly owned treatment works;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id3908f5e0427f4b8da886d8ff3a01dc47" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of how the proposed project would improve the performance of the publicly owned treatment works under an anticipated natural hazard or natural hazard risk of the area where the proposed project is to be located or a potential cybersecurity vulnerability, as applicable; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="iddf46c37b38844dc1b384f263e7e0adba" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an explanation of how the proposed project is expected to enhance the resilience of the publicly owned treatment works to a natural hazard risk of the area where the proposed project is to be located or a potential cybersecurity vulnerability, as applicable.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idac988cdd-066c-47d7-8cd7-5ef2b56be958" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant amount and other federal requirements</header><paragraph id="id7f0ef3f9-f615-4c15-b300-900bdef01334" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cost share</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in paragraph (2), a grant under the program shall not exceed 75 percent of the total cost of the proposed project.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idD69B617DD45541F6A2237BA1D0DF58D6" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exception</header><subparagraph id="idEDADB4DECF5543DFBC147085AD93DD8D" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subparagraph (B), a grant under the program shall not exceed 90 percent of the total cost of the proposed project if the project serves a community that—</text><clause id="id06867688DBE04BFAA107AEA8E3E38F79" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has a population of fewer than 10,000 individuals; or</text></clause><clause id="id4EC418B4204D48D8B0D11B4C461479A4" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">meets the affordability criteria established by the State in which the community is located under section 603(i)(2).</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3575A6C2405549D1BDB9A475296AFE0B" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Waiver</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">At the discretion of the Administrator, a grant for a project described in subparagraph (A) may cover 100 percent of the total cost of the proposed project.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id67316995-3b5b-409e-8d4a-a17d7fb26086" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The requirements of section 608 shall apply to a project funded with a grant under the program.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="id45B8BE163B5643E788A88FDEA9D4956B" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that describes the implementation of the program, which shall include an accounting of all grants awarded under the program, including a description of each grant recipient and each project funded using a grant under the program.</text></subsection><subsection id="id26f2b01c-b15d-48e2-bc9d-e27dd28bd75b" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><paragraph id="id274bbf40-c63c-46cf-8950-b5b29652a04d" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id0ac455e5-6df8-4886-8fe8-0cdf3bf92730" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available for grants under paragraph (1), not more than 2 percent may be used to pay the administrative costs of the Administrator.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section id="id24ca5b1f-2697-48ef-a3ab-5c3218818350" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>206.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Small and medium publicly owned treatment works circuit rider program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1281">33 U.S.C. 1281</external-xref> et seq.) (as amended by section 205) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block act-name="" id="idf414d075-e680-4c61-b6b2-2827cb0b4c1b" style="OLC" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><section id="id5b6d93e5-ff54-4626-b601-7ab164635372" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>224.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Small and medium publicly owned treatment works circuit rider program</header><subsection id="id11195bc5-60fd-4cc6-9b1d-a9f8511d7b59" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall establish a circuit rider program (referred to in this section as the <quote>circuit rider program</quote>) under which the Administrator shall award grants to qualified nonprofit entities, as determined by the Administrator, to provide assistance to owners and operators of small and medium publicly owned treatment works to carry out the activities described in section 602(b)(13).</text></subsection><subsection id="idf1303b3f-6487-4de3-a3db-28a618fe0060" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A grant provided under the circuit rider program shall be in an amount that is not more than $75,000.</text></subsection><subsection id="id4e96e78b949840029e6633a87e347c57" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prioritization</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In selecting recipients of grants under the circuit rider program, the Administrator shall give priority to qualified nonprofit entities, as determined by the Administrator, that would serve a community that—</text><paragraph id="id04fd070969f14e958674e77b611ac725" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has a history, for not less than the 10 years prior to the award of the grant, of unresolved wastewater issues, stormwater issues, or a combination of wastewater and stormwater issues;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id337db1e588124160add0cbc914ee8c6a" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is considered financially distressed;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id337f25246238470da6f072f02512d645" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">faces the cumulative burden of stormwater and wastewater overflow issues; or</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id8ed8fde86b674799ad514b5ae2580a9b" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has previously failed to access Federal technical assistance due to cost-sharing requirements. </text></paragraph></subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="idA39312965A5D4EA4955B32B8AD365FBD" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Communication</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each qualified nonprofit entity that receives funding under this section shall, before using that funding to undertake activities to carry out this section, consult with the State in which the assistance is to be expended or otherwise made available.</text></subsection><subsection id="idfb2a7ca3-6af1-4216-87ff-3684f4bbc33f" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date on which the Administrator establishes the circuit rider program, and every 2 years thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report describing—</text><paragraph id="id88a35d55-1dd4-44a8-9b63-3a22e393fa66" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each recipient of a grant under the circuit rider program; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id5ad942f4-00b3-4c68-98cd-85ffd9cf47d7" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a summary of the activities carried out under the circuit rider program.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idc745fef0d6464285893679b70de4d215" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><paragraph id="ida646cfdc9d08424793399d9cfe8c616d" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idf3d8a52e407b443b829b9486b126d89e" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available for grants under paragraph (1), not more than 2 percent may be used to pay the administrative costs of the Administrator.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section id="id63bd1d86-5ddc-4ad2-b0a0-98e62759b606" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>207.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Small publicly owned treatment works efficiency grant program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1281">33 U.S.C. 1281</external-xref> et seq.) (as amended by section 206) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="id8b9020f6-4b65-4dbf-8c44-8cbe217f8d37" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" style="OLC" act-name=""><section id="idcf7f0e0b-9439-4ddf-bdf2-39098409c3c8" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>225.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Small publicly owned treatment works efficiency grant program</header><subsection id="id231c3a97-76ee-4630-808d-57379cfaf7d9" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall establish an efficiency grant program (referred to in this section as the <quote>efficiency grant program</quote>) under which the Administrator shall award grants to eligible entities for the replacement or repair of equipment that improves water or energy efficiency of small publicly owned treatment works, as identified in an efficiency audit.</text></subsection><subsection id="id00c0eb2e-0d47-4324-bea0-e122be26df6f" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may award a grant under the efficiency grant program to—</text><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="idCFD61B65FCDF4C99908D4F814C2834AA" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an owner or operator of a small publicly owned treatment works that serves—</text><subparagraph id="id12d76b56-a54e-4daa-82a9-07d81a77f5d1" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a population of not more than 10,000 people; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id879a591b-62ef-4193-a95d-1197187ff248" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a disadvantaged community; or</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id5CF69408D8F54FD490F60F7F430D7C2D" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a nonprofit organization that seeks to assist a small publicly owned treatment works described in paragraph (1) to carry out the activities described in subsection (a).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id64795670-6a62-4408-83f7-d57a51187676" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date on which the Administrator establishes the efficiency grant program, and every 2 years thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report describing—</text><paragraph id="idbb67f118-6e9d-4825-b020-b785e11385b2" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each recipient of a grant under the efficiency grant program; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id22fe9f74-0cd5-4415-a37e-e3c06750e6c5" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a summary of the activities carried out under the efficiency grant program.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="id2AD323612B8940639C2C1850F40290BE" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of funds</header><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="id37A389AE9CE34A91BFB143CD9CAE320C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Small systems</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available for grants under this section, to the extent that there are sufficient applications, not less than 15 percent shall be used for grants to publicly owned treatment works that serve fewer than 3,300 people.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id5d1be8e7-f443-4610-be67-d0705aaf4f56" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available for grants under this section, not more than 2 percent may be used to pay the administrative costs of the Administrator. </text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section id="id8054f043708243b8b289947500c8820d" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>208.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants for construction and refurbishing of individual household decentralized wastewater systems for individuals with low or moderate income</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1281">33 U.S.C. 1281</external-xref> et seq.) (as amended by section 207) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id19d82373d1734cbdbd6861d82e890cf5"><section id="idd024d4aad4b24ae588200dab2ff23bd9" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>226.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants for construction and refurbishing of individual household decentralized wastewater systems for individuals with low or moderate income</header><subsection id="id703e69385e5f42f5917399291486f300" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of eligible individual</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term <term>eligible individual</term> means a member of a low-income or moderate-income household, the members of which have a combined income (for the most recent 12-month period for which information is available) equal to not more than 50 percent of the median nonmetropolitan household income for the State or territory in which the household is located, according to the most recent decennial census.</text></subsection><subsection id="id5E55159ED29E418FA02E541C5C6AE9F2" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant program</header><paragraph id="idf1f3e11977d14e98ae693edaba312bc7" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator shall establish a program under which the Administrator shall provide grants to private nonprofit organizations for the purpose of improving general welfare by providing assistance to eligible individuals—</text><subparagraph id="id64fc783c2a914c86ba0a51de02ddcc03" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for the construction, repair, or replacement of an individual household decentralized wastewater treatment system; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idba0bdbb00a264f219cab6227caec4cca" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for the installation of a larger decentralized wastewater system designed to provide treatment for 2 or more households in which eligible individuals reside, if—</text><clause id="id2e9af9781dcd4363b989c1cbf43c04ca" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">site conditions at the households are unsuitable for the installation of an individually owned decentralized wastewater system;</text></clause><clause id="idc2b19bd0021949deb339767482c7a48e" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">multiple examples of unsuitable site conditions exist in close geographic proximity to each other; and</text></clause><clause id="id32fb5320f857480ebe319186730df832" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a larger decentralized wastewater system could be cost-effectively installed. </text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idd78a578ba12742d9978172a6fa188b0b" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To be eligible to receive a grant under this subsection, a private nonprofit organization shall submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator determines to be appropriate.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id9984e04c0d934be2b55de9c1472c7506" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In awarding grants under this subsection, the Administrator shall give priority to applicants that have substantial expertise and experience in promoting the safe and effective use of individual household decentralized wastewater systems.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idd5802eaed43c43628cc27d922de91bbb" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative expenses</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A private nonprofit organization may use amounts provided under this subsection to pay the administrative expenses associated with the provision of the services described in paragraph (1), as the Administrator determines to be appropriate.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ida06d1a8193374da0af763e525bfb7db3" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants</header><paragraph id="id831262503fe44d6c80d9668a30148137" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (2), a private nonprofit organization shall use a grant provided under subsection (b) for the services described in paragraph (1) of that subsection.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id259fc03c4ee04a1fb69f334d2f4afe48" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To be eligible to receive the services described in subsection (b)(1), an eligible individual shall submit to the private nonprofit organization serving the area in which the individual household decentralized wastewater system of the eligible individuals is, or is proposed to be, located an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the private nonprofit organization determines to be appropriate.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id229b541efbad41f0b07b9df039eeae69" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In awarding grants under this subsection, a private nonprofit organization shall give priority to any eligible individual who does not have access to a sanitary sewage disposal system.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id7822d1cf922d44af84f65dcb0c4da398" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report describing the recipients of grants under the program under this section and the results of the program under this section.</text></subsection><subsection id="idcc902c09d5fb427d82b62a72fad0df77" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><paragraph id="id1925da4a58ff49e587266748d840f23d" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator to carry out this section $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id2bb317bed6714903b86d2ae4b32e3eeb" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available for grants under paragraph (1), not more than 2 percent may be used to pay the administrative costs of the Administrator.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section id="idaa5079c8b70f4842868ec611ffd619d1" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>209.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Connection to publicly owned treatment works</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1281">33 U.S.C. 1281</external-xref> et seq.) (as amended by section 208) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5d513c9b23fc49cab7f828d25a546468"><section id="id0c5ab72878484ded81fd2f33be4a5960" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>227.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Connection to publicly owned treatment works</header><subsection id="idcc5e7d1ca2ad4d418a9f0164e061250b" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph id="id30934dd2d4854a82a4c73c8f87a5f435" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible entity</term> means—</text><subparagraph id="id2c5694734f3a43d496dc97793ac291bd" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an owner or operator of a publicly owned treatment works that assists or is seeking to assist low-income or moderate-income individuals with connecting the household of the individual to the publicly owned treatment works; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id80d6569a9c2549c2b297cdb98ad59cc6" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a nonprofit entity that assists low-income or moderate-income individuals with the costs associated with connecting the household of the individual to a publicly owned treatment works.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id6454588fb1234eb99653fc9e60d95baa" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>program</term> means the competitive grant program established under subsection (b).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id2742a004c16a4755a90c250c25e9e132" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Qualified individual</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>qualified individual</term> has the meaning given the term <term>eligible individual</term> in section 603(j).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idc9e7488a2386416a99e1b580c34992c9" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator shall establish a competitive grant program with the purpose of improving general welfare, under which the Administrator awards grants to eligible entities to provide funds to assist qualified individuals in covering the costs incurred by the qualified individual in connecting the household of the qualified individual to a publicly owned treatment works.</text></subsection><subsection id="idc8d69fbf0ac64ebabc9fd633f7b1e0b2" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><paragraph id="idcd686572b16445a5abc81ea67ef3ed81" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible entity seeking a grant under the program shall submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator may by regulation require.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id59861e4df006447c86dec613875fe678" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date on which the Administrator receives an application from an eligible entity under paragraph (1), the Administrator shall notify the eligible entity of whether the Administrator will award a grant to the eligible entity under the program.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="iddf9adf9e9ffd43f8be9a8474d5c51802" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Selection criteria</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In selecting recipients of grants under the program, the Administrator shall use the following criteria:</text><paragraph id="id424a6cb40b414533a141d143dfe15caa" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Whether the eligible entity seeking a grant provides services to, or works directly with, qualified individuals.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idfe54f5d5f774470e99f75dd7ae488c13" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Whether the eligible entity seeking a grant—</text><subparagraph id="id0692791e65314891b21a0d11d6569d71" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has an existing program to assist in covering the costs incurred in connecting a household to a publicly owned treatment works; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id110a35ccd17d44cb8b23e8c8baa600bc" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">seeks to create a program described in subparagraph (A).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id4cc9eb3a9ec94623bc286ce630a66785" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements</header><paragraph id="iddfddc994f7c941a3bdceac1ad34e23b9" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Voluntary connection</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before providing funds to a qualified individual for the costs described in subsection (b), an eligible entity shall ensure that—</text><subparagraph id="id4d02053e86be427a9f441ea7dd5cbb49" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the qualified individual has connected to the publicly owned treatment works voluntarily; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id085c9dca74914dbfae9c71e46eea72bd" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the eligible entity is not the owner or operator of the publicly owned treatment works to which the qualified individual has connected, the publicly owned treatment works to which the qualified individual has connected has agreed to the connection.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id3bf7a7e2c3604dc6a7f69cf038f0771b" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reimbursements from publicly owned treatment works</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible entity that is an owner or operator of a publicly owned treatment works may reimburse a qualified individual that has already incurred the costs described in subsection (b) by—</text><subparagraph id="id31918b7dbc3b4402b299574598fda330" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reducing the amount otherwise owed by the qualified individual to the owner or operator for wastewater or other services provided by the owner or operator; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ida69e5aa1516f4ace85cbdee3f092a6b5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">providing a direct payment to the qualified individual.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id9AD912FFC8D445038EBA2C55188DDB3B" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><paragraph id="id2ac1be512b0e48c39b44895d3c3f7249" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the program $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id3820845f4b27455f92acb91a2e643bb5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitations on use of funds</header><subparagraph id="idB8ECAF654D5E4906A8FB0417578BD57F" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Small systems</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available for grants under paragraph (1), to the extent that there are sufficient applications, not less than 15 percent shall be used to make grants to—</text><clause id="id25CD53633D73440ABB42EF93DA5F1599" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">eligible entities described in subsection (a)(1)(A) that are owners and operators of publicly owned treatment works that serve fewer than 3,300 people; and</text></clause><clause id="idC2CA4D7A97B84A8DB300B3419D848AA0" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">eligible entities described in subsection (a)(1)(B) that provide the assistance described in that subsection in areas that are served by publicly owned treatment works that serve fewer than 3,300 people.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idC0DF6B1C4D534BD88935822DB7044BB9" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative costs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available for grants under paragraph (1), not more than 2 percent may be used to pay the administrative costs of the Administrator.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section id="id92CC4ABEBA0D447A9042A3174D50F395" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>210.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clean water State revolving funds</header><subsection id="id875ea5fb8bd648bbaa750e67de933afc" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of funds</header><paragraph id="id64B5A893DA7C49AE801A628D3F127E8B" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</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 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1383">33 U.S.C. 1383</external-xref>) is amended—</text><subparagraph id="idfaa1c9b19358416395f1a0dceeda3bcf" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting <quote>and provided in subsection (k)</quote> after <quote>State law</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id24c6deef2b354eee812253aee7f754e8" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (i)—</text><clause id="idbd2181f8e7b3421a8f1a50c73c86c1cd" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>, including forgiveness of principal and negative interest loans</quote> and inserting <quote>(including forgiveness of principal, grants, negative interest loans, other loan forgiveness, and through buying, refinancing, or restructuring debt)</quote>; and</text></clause><clause id="id340fd9314d694a82856894951796e45b" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id18866bec4c39468f81e817c859ab851d"><subparagraph id="id7fc14f95497145db97a3c5d69063e14d" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Total amount of subsidization</header><clause id="id368456AD1D6D432FB64A3C1A446B4F11" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For each fiscal year, of the amount of the capitalization grant received by the State under this title, the total amount of additional subsidization made available by a State under paragraph (1)—</text><subclause id="idaa10620e73de488ebbff35f8e40ffc3c" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may not exceed 30 percent; and</text></subclause><subclause id="ida9ae213ad3cd4330ae2378ac1cb82576" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to the extent that there are sufficient applications for assistance to communities described in that paragraph, may not be less than 10 percent.</text></subclause></clause><clause id="id96386BFA81E642F08C32EF218A1273D3" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exclusion</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A loan from the water pollution control revolving fund of a State with an interest rate equal to or greater than 0 percent shall not be considered additional subsidization for purposes of this subparagraph.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2f88fc12a5ad468781107c92db247f4e" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1968426ab4f146abac69e0c0e1aba45c"><subsection id="id0b09ecd7c4f54ce8944b634f96d66027" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(k)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Additional use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A State may use an additional 2 percent of the funds annually awarded to each State under this title for nonprofit organizations (as defined in section 104(w)) or State, regional, interstate, or municipal entities to provide technical assistance to rural, small, and tribal publicly owned treatment works (within the meaning of section 104(b)(8)(B)) in the State.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id3ff759f7aea146aa98c1accb1073e31a" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 104(w) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1254">33 U.S.C. 1254(w)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>treatments works</quote> and inserting <quote>treatment works</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idF7D7DC9F1A8E433CA15ED7B1208E25D0" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Capitalization grant reauthorization</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 607 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1387">33 U.S.C. 1387</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text><quoted-block id="id4FAAC5CE9E7047E580D0CBF128088308" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><section id="idA2F74C5B6DAF4BF69206BD4E4892654B" section-type="subsequent-section" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>607.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this title—</text><paragraph id="id9FEA9F9834CB4FDFA138F9DBD00EF06A" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$2,400,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idAD9179C07C664E0B920F1B0FD091A172" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$2,750,000,000 for fiscal year 2023;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id3A109C06076B441C9962F21BD6F95D97" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$3,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2024; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idDFE840A2581D497C9AB44775D5CBF5C1" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$3,250,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 and 2026.</text></paragraph></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section id="id1E2228D3F76E47018F22A6744462C7A6" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>211.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Water infrastructure and workforce investment</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 4304 of the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-19e">42 U.S.C. 300j–19e</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="idB96F0E4D9B934CB9A4CFDA1E2B722214" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)(3)—</text><subparagraph id="idECCB5C8D826B4655807374F3CA2472D6" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by inserting <quote>Tribal,</quote> after <quote>State,</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9F952DF2FCA3424D8118A1E02575BBD8" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>community-based organizations</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting the following: </text><quoted-block id="idA90850B8A930417F9636B091C3970684" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="yes-display-inline"><text>community-based organizations and public works departments or agencies to align water and wastewater utility workforce recruitment efforts, training programs, retention efforts, and community resources with water and wastewater utilities—</text><clause id="id66B98F59358749ECAE7F361DD42EC568" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to accelerate career pipelines;</text></clause><clause id="idD0BE21287CC944F2BAC9712A89800F8F" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to ensure the sustainability of the water and wastewater utility workforce; and</text></clause><clause id="idD844A45F7B7D4D2BB78D2D4B7D27FCB6" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide access to workforce opportunities.</text></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id37598FC6433640DF906F1B813B6E3C9D" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)—</text><subparagraph id="id4D20E428E8CB4C6C983BDB8BE505EF6E" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text><clause id="id11E532C430E34FBAAF74C667E01D7F76" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subparagraph (B);</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="idF8F8200B0CBF40359C3549B0D1185F01" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>; and</quote> at the end and inserting <quote>, which may include—</quote></text></clause><clause commented="no" id="idED187D5057B446FD93A6CAF21F491585" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>program—</quote> and all that follows through <quote>to assist</quote> in subparagraph (A) and inserting <quote>program to assist</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="idD24BE97670BA4688A79C8F1899EB29CF" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="idAC91D4E232C24B09ACBBB446B10F0295" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="idB5AD3129BE0142139E92FFF2A317042D" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">expanding the use and availability of activities and resources that relate to the recruitment, including the promotion of diversity within that recruitment, of individuals to careers in the water and wastewater utility sector;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id71EFA0CABF73402894D59DF93D1985B6" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">expanding the availability of training opportunities for—</text><clause id="idF832A662075646C1B59565788B66F622" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">individuals entering into the water and wastewater utility sector; and</text></clause><clause id="idCCD175E0C25845F9A70ED1D2D3F3B0B5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">individuals seeking to advance careers within the water and wastewater utility sector; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA6BEB847B22F4772AA8C393B53D55C82" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">expanding the use and availability of activities and strategies, including the development of innovative activities and strategies, that relate to the maintenance and retention of a sustainable workforce in the water and wastewater utility sector.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id4A843D264D5842C496BF17B491FDA0E0" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)—</text><clause commented="no" id="id4DE193A1128A4C7F922F7597D558100C" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>institutions—</quote> and inserting <quote>institutions, or public works departments and agencies—</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="id23E999D8E9E440A5A73EA522BAB6ADE2" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text><subclause commented="no" id="idAB30B01F2F8A4B98BB50D15466969FE5" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking clauses (ii) and (iii);</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="idD8E441A681FA47D7A44F3B05CB57FEBA" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (i), by adding <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="id6D80C1FF8D7947909E565369D60C14C9" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating clause (i) as clause (ii);</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="idD88C5B8698564E18B2E24AC1B9C4F417" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting before clause (ii) (as so redesignated) the following:</text><quoted-block id="idCE5E0E33B0534F7B9C7316329A8C3FB0" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><clause id="idA707E2A9D05448C9B11D21C4FE577CF4" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the development of educational or recruitment materials and activities, including those materials and activities that specifically promote diversity within recruitment, for the water and wastewater utility workforce;</text></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="id8289B93F0B784248A7DCA77900F6D3EC" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(V)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="id7BEC4B3D0BBF43DEBEF40E13D09B8534" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><clause id="idFEFB8784C75840AC8A7C78C1A7251EBC" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">developing activities and strategies that relate to the maintenance and retention of a sustainable workforce in the water and wastewater utility sector; and</text></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id6D59F0D80BC74E0C9DF84DAC9988BEE5" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3)—</text><clause commented="no" id="id188A005D926D49A587065BC1ECD868CF" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (D)(ii), by inserting <quote>or certification</quote> after <quote>training</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="idA65109CD139B49779726DF76F4C6ACA0" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (E), by striking <quote>ensure that incumbent water and waste water utilities workers</quote> and inserting <quote>are designed to retain incumbent water and wastewater utility workforce workers by ensuring that those workers</quote>; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id1596E9EE7D534C609D5FDD9DA0B049B2" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block id="id5F48977C0E1242B493B64CAE0B9DDB5E" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="idBFA1B266F22346318455081AF74C1E92" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Working group; report</header><subparagraph id="id940EA6E4EB5B4333A40AA7AD386925E1" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall establish and coordinate a Federal interagency working group to address recruitment, training, and retention challenges in the water and wastewater utility workforce, which shall include representatives from—</text><clause id="id7402E6866C16418D80E6A7ECA8F43205" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of Education;</text></clause><clause id="id91DFB3001BF2416C834B4F61DF7F3104" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"> the Department of Labor;</text></clause><clause id="idDBC74557447144309F9963BB8331C13A" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of Agriculture;</text></clause><clause id="id3E0F231F20264FA1907865A7E2590F00" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of Veterans Affairs; and</text></clause><clause id="idB7EBEF05919E4651A14BE050A9168DC0" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">other Federal agencies, as determined to be appropriate by the Administrator.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id54B403DAF57A4C669C08EFAF18A1FD60" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, the Administrator, in coordination with the working group established under subparagraph (A), shall submit to Congress a report describing potential solutions to recruitment, training, and retention challenges in the water and wastewater utility workforce. </text></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id7724BBE022384C75A48FB2FC026AF799"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consultation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out the duties of the working group established under subparagraph (A), the working group shall consult with State operator certification programs.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id6FB451777C874557BEEABA9FB46715E2" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</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 subsection $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id379D9CBAF55341AFB3523CF6037081CE" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (a) and (b) as subsections (b) and (c), respectively; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id797B75060E334D07BC49700E5FCC7920" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting before subsection (b) (as so redesignated) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id96f340711a3d44b98e3c91256d0ec391"><subsection id="id8accd337490b4d0f8d6b0de12ed89ace" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of public works department or agency</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term <term>public works department or agency</term> means a political subdivision of a local, county, or regional government that designs, builds, operates, and maintains water infrastructure, sewage and refuse disposal systems, and other public water systems and facilities.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section id="id9E731627D9FF4E1D8632329DF275A328" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>212.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants to Alaska to improve sanitation in rural and Native villages</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 303 of the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1263a">33 U.S.C. 1263a</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="id401CE53EFA574A0CAEBC2573603DEC02" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b), by striking <quote>50 percent</quote> and inserting <quote>75 percent</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id44C2029DAAAA4118AB5D3B26A56C1B7D" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (e), by striking <quote>this section</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting the following: </text><quoted-block id="id74F50DC814684BF69AA335E5F67C099A" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="yes-display-inline"><text>this section—</text><paragraph id="idE4059AC006BA4AC4A1E7CB364EC773A5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2024;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id9CABB2A140924528AA7DE5818D71AA5F" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$50,000,000 for fiscal year 2025; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id9943EF6F7B654D8D97671300EE18889C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$60,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section id="id3b8f3b22-404a-4d88-8af1-ea29864ff11a" section-type="subsequent-section" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>213.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Water data sharing pilot program</header><subsection id="id8783e742-0377-4e78-a6b7-845db4702ba2" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><paragraph id="id9536f167-0830-4314-a452-54768e0d482c" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator shall establish a competitive grant pilot program (referred to in this section as the <term>pilot program</term>) under which the Administrator may award grants to eligible entities under subsection (b) to establish systems that improve the sharing of information concerning water quality, water infrastructure needs, and water technology, including cybersecurity technology, between States or among counties and other units of local government within a State, which may include—</text><subparagraph id="id1d2581fc-d086-48df-a043-a26225dba4f1" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establishing a website or data hub to exchange water data, including data on water quality or water technology, including new and emerging, but proven, water technology; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idfce76ec5-a660-4d2b-8ce3-7239b8bb6617" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">intercounty communications initiatives related to water data. </text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id14aed8ef-bee7-4cd8-b050-ca7bea24b72e" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements</header><subparagraph id="id1cf8ce0d-d5a8-4f9c-97ae-3033653e5514" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Data sharing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Internet of Water principles developed by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions shall, to the extent practicable, guide any water data sharing efforts under the pilot program.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id95d06586-5700-45c0-ab75-2f0e395ff240" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of existing data</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The recipient of a grant under the pilot program to establish a website or data hub described in paragraph (1)(A) shall, to the extent practicable, leverage existing data sharing infrastructure.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id052a8540-e62d-40f5-a64b-f13c06868cb1" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An entity eligible for a grant under the pilot program is—</text><paragraph id="id10b0953d-e29a-4e0a-9975-4be0ef327cf1" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a State, county, or other unit of local government that—</text><subparagraph id="id64c07db4-3a77-4045-9ffd-87188b5d6055" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has a coastal watershed with significant pollution levels;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id517bc413-5150-4fff-9219-2081e72cf14b" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has a water system with significant pollution levels; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idc280ef96-f54a-4574-a441-0dfbcd90a807" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has significant individual water infrastructure deficits; or</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id9b7ae131-7075-432c-bbd5-622abd83372d" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a regional consortium established under subsection (d).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id335d1933-4426-402c-a690-34bbcd18680c" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To be eligible to receive a grant under the pilot program, an eligible entity under subsection (b) shall submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator may require.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id220a6ee4-51cd-479c-bc45-28a7c6be96c5" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Regional consortia</header><paragraph commented="no" id="idada8bcbe-ce5d-4492-af70-1ee517cd5f02" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">States may establish regional consortia in accordance with this subsection.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id2a28222e-3543-4425-89c1-eddd57dc3c56" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A regional consortium established under paragraph (1) shall—</text><subparagraph commented="no" id="ide0738ea8-906d-464c-89ad-a2a80562a166" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include not fewer than 2 States that have entered into a memorandum of understanding—</text><clause commented="no" id="id6f719ad6-7043-4bd6-a4c5-0a950a291f44" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to exchange water data, including data on water quality; or </text></clause><clause commented="no" id="id158be62b-809f-4e83-8ae3-b73c18e521cd" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to share information, protocols, and procedures with respect to projects that evaluate, demonstrate, or install new and emerging, but proven, water technology;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id6627f7a1-b235-47d1-a5a4-ca394b80604e" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">carry out projects—</text><clause commented="no" id="ida5a35e2a-7404-47c2-b8ee-67cd2751c762" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to exchange water data, including data on water quality; or</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="id71cb2ed6-43be-43f5-a610-ad8ab4e5e216" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that evaluate, demonstrate, or install new and emerging, but proven, water technology; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="iddf3ecaac-94fa-4b58-89c7-b922caa7e5a9" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develop a regional intended use plan, in accordance with paragraph (3), to identify projects to carry out, including projects using grants received under this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id8fc06584-2944-432e-9c3f-b3c7284a2b24" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Regional intended use plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A regional intended use plan of a regional consortium established under paragraph (1)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" id="id1dda50c3-f0c0-477e-89e7-0c9e4336ccd4" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall identify projects that the regional consortium intends to carry out, including projects that meet the requirements of paragraph (2)(B); and </text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id4771941f-1742-48f7-a926-06247da172cb" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may include—</text><clause commented="no" id="id14a3da0c-233b-4ef1-85c7-be6f4a95d651" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">projects included in an intended use plan of a State prepared under section 606(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1386">33 U.S.C. 1386(c)</external-xref>) within the regional consortium; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="id75fecf29-1ff4-422f-bfda-f65b91ebbdb5" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">projects not included in an intended use plan of a State prepared under section 606(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1386">33 U.S.C. 1386(c)</external-xref>) within the regional consortium. </text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="idE6D0987635584928A732BDADF6A4FBC8" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that describes the implementation of the pilot program, which shall include—</text><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="idBBB2F18B27C34C4D821F15053C6C468B" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the use and deployment of amounts made available under the pilot program; and</text></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="idBFE2E1F1DFC04C3DAA36566EB84BDED0" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an accounting of all grants awarded under the program, including a description of each grant recipient and each project funded using a grant under the pilot program.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id798dc6b1-f1bc-4576-81b5-f129933e27af" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funding</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id65d960dc-3b75-40c0-8555-1becd5f61673" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</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 the pilot program $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, to remain available until expended.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id652c070a-418f-4e0e-bdb4-6ef084b80331" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the funds made available under paragraph (1), not more than 35 percent may be used to provide grants to regional consortia established under subsection (d). </text></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="idf5144c0d-7859-4201-9e93-8d442931be51" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" changed="not-changed"><enum>214.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Final rating opinion letters</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5028(a)(1)(D)(ii) of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/3907">33 U.S.C. 3907(a)(1)(D)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>final rating opinion letters from at least 2 rating agencies</quote> and inserting <quote>a final rating opinion letter from at least 1 rating agency</quote>. </text></section><section id="id8236bf64-1606-40b1-b457-f115785fc6be" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>215.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Water infrastructure financing reauthorization</header><subsection changed="not-changed" id="idA5FB7DCFFAE54996BF2EB4E2605A3FA3" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5033 of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/3912">33 U.S.C. 3912</external-xref>) is amended— </text><paragraph id="id3a72d81b-f83e-4d00-b8b6-730b367fc479" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="ida811d2f9-5ca5-4a8a-87eb-91c701465d25" style="OLC" act-name="" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="id9efc809f-cd4d-4e6f-b850-217f452daf98" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fiscal years 2022 through 2026</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator to carry out this subtitle $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, to remain available until expended.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="idfdd62645-e521-4731-8f23-e17d7cea3252" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)(2)—</text><subparagraph id="id5a139939-ec81-4ad4-bf75-109287d54f9e" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the paragraph heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text style="OLC" level="paragraph">2020 and 2021</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text style="OLC" level="paragraph">after 2019</header-in-text></quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id84840e7f-fbee-4aa8-bb0b-b4b201426b5a" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>2020 and 2021</quote> and inserting <quote>2022 through 2026</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idfa95bf80-7b60-4a0d-bd88-49c5ec33064d" commented="no" changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (e)(1), by striking <quote>2020 and 2021</quote> and inserting <quote>2022 through 2026</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idBDDE3D0EC6994D57B5D3DCDCC198E6D8" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Outreach plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/3901">33 U.S.C. 3901</external-xref> et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="id40337A9E71D946628ACBC07AD02CCC21" style="OLC" act-name="" display-inline="no-display-inline"><section id="idEE411A615F0E42C894739998FFC4BD6A" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>5036.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Outreach plan</header><subsection id="id73F28472417847DC8BE3A37950DF30D9" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of rural community</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term <term>rural community</term> means a city, town, or unincorporated area that has a population of not more than 10,000 inhabitants. </text></subsection><subsection id="id9075C9FD946C44E29823B858952AD5D8" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Outreach required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator, in consultation with relevant Federal agencies, shall develop and begin implementation of an outreach plan to promote financial assistance available under this subtitle to small communities and rural communities.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section id="id8c21bb54-55e0-46ae-a927-b6985efb1b33" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>216.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Small and disadvantaged community analysis</header><subsection id="id6159f9f1-7488-4fbc-af51-733914b48fba" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Analysis</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, using environmental justice data of the Environmental Protection Agency, including data from the environmental justice mapping and screening tool of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Administrator shall carry out an analysis under which the Administrator shall assess the programs under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1381">33 U.S.C. 1381</external-xref> et seq.) and section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300j-12">42 U.S.C. 300j–12</external-xref>) to identify historical distributions of funds to small and disadvantaged communities and new opportunities and methods to improve on the distribution of funds under those programs to low-income communities, rural communities, minority communities, and communities of indigenous peoples, in accordance with Executive Order 12898 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321</external-xref> note; 60 Fed. Reg. 6381; relating to Federal actions to address environmental justice in minority populations and low-income populations).</text></subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="idF0B143152C7748C498FC4289B7F82421" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis under subsection (a) shall include an analysis, to the extent practicable, of communities in the United States that do not have access to drinking water or wastewater services.</text></subsection><subsection id="id043f559c-931d-431c-a863-abcba7bfcd44" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On completion of the analysis under subsection (a), the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committees on Energy and Commerce and Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report describing—</text><paragraph id="id52c0365a-cb51-4b10-a619-cd10336bc24b" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the results of the analysis; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idaca6b5dd-5271-4b46-88f2-4cf20ba5d454" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the criteria the Administrator used in carrying out the analysis. </text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA2727F6796AC480FA6DDF17A06C38340" section-type="subsequent-section" changed="not-changed"><enum>217.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Stormwater infrastructure technology</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD919BB02E30C4B27A2A28EFD91BC21B5" changed="not-changed"><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="id45EBF17CDF444619A68098069CDC8F85" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Center</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>center</term> means a center of excellence for stormwater control infrastructure established under subsection (b)(1).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id55EB55B6989F4FABA6AF24DB5971AFFC" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible entity</term> means—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5C4346A86B5745B7B24A02825AF1782E" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a State, Tribal, or local government; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id136226924E2F4D109471CF6E153BAAB8" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a local, regional, or other public entity that manages stormwater or wastewater resources or other related water infrastructure.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbd3304ef-6f6a-4cb5-8eea-415047a1e2fd" changed="not-changed"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible institution</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible institution</term> means an institution of higher education, a research institution, or a nonprofit organization—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" id="idEE3A5F56561244FDB1CF6A51CA92F4CC"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that has demonstrated excellence in researching and developing new and emerging stormwater control infrastructure technologies; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="idD0925D8B8BBC4EB7B507D270C2BD8825"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with respect to a nonprofit organization, the core mission of which includes water management, as determined by the Administrator.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71002D8A96E64087B9E162006DE55AD3" changed="not-changed"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Centers of Excellence for stormwater control infrastructure technologies</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id93F2122ED4074B04A27A8A679F205563" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of centers</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id51B5D480414A417E9B2225D1B24228A2" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator shall provide grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible institutions to establish and maintain not less than 3, and not more than 5, centers of excellence for new and emerging stormwater control infrastructure technologies, to be located in various regions throughout the United States.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id76C940762E2B4B1DB9D40D32469E2FBA" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">General operation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each center shall—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE8E293BEEF4F4CA79D30C858808DDDF3" changed="not-changed"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conduct research on new and emerging stormwater control infrastructure technologies that are relevant to the geographical region in which the center is located, including stormwater and sewer overflow reduction, other approaches to water resource enhancement, alternative funding approaches, and other environmental, economic, and social benefits, with the goal of improving the effectiveness, cost efficiency, and protection of public safety and water quality;</text></clause><clause display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id043F3CB862144487B74123C6C5DBC056" changed="not-changed"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">maintain a listing of—</text><subclause display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id0F9FBB21ED604542B9CBA50FC97A98AF" changed="not-changed"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">stormwater control infrastructure needs; and</text></subclause><subclause display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id38E44A08E35647BC814C4D415AFC5808" changed="not-changed"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an analysis of new and emerging stormwater control infrastructure technologies that are available;</text></subclause></clause><clause display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id2D7A2AB7C1234ADFB0D1E258290DA89F" changed="not-changed"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">analyze whether additional financial programs for the implementation of new and emerging, but proven, stormwater control infrastructure technologies would be useful; </text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC470CEC1BA764BEEA614F550A8413E3B" changed="not-changed"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide information regarding research conducted under clause (i) to the national electronic clearinghouse center for publication on the Internet website established under paragraph (3)(B)(i) to provide to the Federal Government and State, Tribal, and local governments and the private sector information regarding new and emerging, but proven, stormwater control infrastructure technologies;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA5634F83FA0C40D9BB7DF4045DC1548D" changed="not-changed"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide technical assistance to State, Tribal, and local governments to assist with the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of stormwater control infrastructure projects that use innovative technologies;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA347069BD5D44C499BCB80DED270C66F" changed="not-changed"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">collaborate with institutions of higher education and private and public organizations, including community-based public-private partnerships and other stakeholders, in the geographical region in which the center is located; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7BB15B57779E4BCE8CF15276FF48E40E" changed="not-changed"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinate with the other centers to avoid duplication of efforts.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF31A433D08D842A399201445B9E78DA8" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To be eligible to receive a grant under this subsection, an eligible institution shall prepare and submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such form, and containing such information as the Administrator may require.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id65A6860401E24C24A7AAE9505A08B01D" changed="not-changed"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National electronic clearinghouse center</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the centers established under paragraph (1)(A), 1 shall—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id84FAE2E43AEA4B3085DD18D9FCC17134" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be designated as the <quote>national electronic clearinghouse center</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9A3E51D4168443908E678A23A95B8FC9" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in addition to the other functions of that center—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5354F92AF6034A88A7726D825BE42004" changed="not-changed"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develop, operate, and maintain an Internet website and a public database that contains information relating to new and emerging, but proven, stormwater control infrastructure technologies; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23420AF174D347D29B27F34B42FC83D0" changed="not-changed"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">post to the website information from all centers.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id0A9F41724C4E4AE591D42A54F5578809" changed="not-changed"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="idAE048810FE0E4FE38B053F63680F4E51" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subsection $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id56A3BD494EC74DFA89A16D345C25535D" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available for grants under subparagraph (A), not more than 2 percent may be used to pay the administrative costs of the Administrator. </text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id500F521959D5403ABD630F53AB597D05" changed="not-changed"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Stormwater control infrastructure project grants</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBA2CA435FDF44E9B9D594ADA9B49659C" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator shall provide grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible entities to carry out stormwater control infrastructure projects that incorporate new and emerging, but proven, stormwater control technologies in accordance with this subsection.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBAEAA54060E54EF5879DD7A8A562DE47" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Stormwater control infrastructure projects</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC97771CCAA5E469FB15CB584A38F385C" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Planning and development grants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may make planning and development grants under this subsection for the following projects:</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCB16082DD2C340F18954B218D7F530A9" changed="not-changed"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Planning and designing stormwater control infrastructure projects that incorporate new and emerging, but proven, stormwater control technologies, including engineering surveys, landscape plans, maps, long-term operations and maintenance plans, and implementation plans.</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id727D3CF02C714C0EB329849D1CEED4A0" changed="not-changed"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Identifying and developing standards necessary to accommodate stormwater control infrastructure projects, including those projects that incorporate new and emerging, but proven, stormwater control technologies.</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3E0DBD1F804247B2AA89E95569283970" changed="not-changed"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Identifying and developing fee structures to provide financial support for design, installation, and operations and maintenance of stormwater control infrastructure, including new and emerging, but proven, stormwater control infrastructure technologies.</text></clause><clause display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="id2DB94198CA194021AFFB67569F435EFC" changed="not-changed"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Developing approaches for community-based public-private partnerships for the financing and construction of stormwater control infrastructure technologies, including feasibility studies, stakeholder outreach, and needs assessments.</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id43D0CFFCEFEA4809A6BB706720A5E9B0" changed="not-changed"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Developing and delivering training and educational materials regarding new and emerging, but proven, stormwater control infrastructure technologies for distribution to—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC960412DBDF34B4F96A067E921D4531C" changed="not-changed"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">individuals and entities with applicable technical knowledge; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idADB885ED939D45E29B6583C2F6E22D66" changed="not-changed"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the public.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id74A7BE8D6A9C455FBC96819ADA7C638E" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Implementation grants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may make implementation grants under this subsection for the following projects:</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5CC5A332387643118EA1FB9DC3AC43C2" changed="not-changed"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Installing new and emerging, but proven, stormwater control infrastructure technologies.</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD6B2091C33654449853CE2186C39AC54" changed="not-changed"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Protecting or restoring interconnected networks of natural areas that protect water quality.</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC50F5E062A064F5D937201B89B17707E" changed="not-changed"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Monitoring and evaluating the environmental, economic, or social benefits of stormwater control infrastructure technologies that incorporate new and emerging, but proven, stormwater control technology.</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA6CC5D0C63E04F6C82BBE47CE44DD8A3" changed="not-changed"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Implementing a best practices standard for stormwater control infrastructure programs.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE087B239854147BA9723B015E275216A" changed="not-changed"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as otherwise provided in this section, to be eligible to receive a grant under this subsection, an eligible entity shall prepare and submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such form, and containing such information as the Administrator may require, including, as applicable—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id207BE880518540BF8FEAD0468B410F6E" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the stormwater control infrastructure project that incorporates new and emerging, but proven, technologies;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id02076FEF0E8842A2A4E0707552883ECC" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a plan for monitoring the impacts and pollutant load reductions associated with the stormwater control infrastructure project on the water quality and quantity;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2612532044B54D9CA4608ED478F36E32" changed="not-changed"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an evaluation of other environmental, economic, and social benefits of the stormwater control infrastructure project; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB90E2F3CA64C4585916BFF6518444F16" changed="not-changed"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a plan for the long-term operation and maintenance of the stormwater control infrastructure project and a tracking system, such as asset management practices.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idADB99E3831F24FD49F965B5A3C1F605A" changed="not-changed"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In making grants under this subsection, the Administrator shall give priority to applications submitted on behalf of—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5C669C1B98254A5FBCD04D34E03B1C36" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a community that—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD629A56DEB6142A19FDD71DEEC0EA137" changed="not-changed"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has municipal combined storm and sanitary sewers in the collection system of the community; or</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4DCC39A276C04D9F85DF2F2E32AB5012" changed="not-changed"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is a small, rural, or disadvantaged community, as determined by the Administrator; or</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC3FFBB000AAF44328D5E40B6426F4129" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an eligible entity that will use not less than 15 percent of the grant to provide service to a small, rural, or disadvantaged community, as determined by the Administrator.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4607F19A88FD45789DDF1C7F74BD9B77" changed="not-changed"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maximum amounts</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1AA0BE4110554EB7830F791C8AF71BA6" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Planning and development grants</header><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id26DCD6EFFF064586B97C4AC385414D6C" changed="not-changed"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Single grant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of a single planning and development grant provided under this subsection shall be not more than $200,000.</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3FD8D6F963214A29B6D1ADCA7797EB92" changed="not-changed"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Aggregate amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The total amount of all planning and development grants provided under this subsection for a fiscal year shall be not more than <fraction>1/3</fraction> of the total amount made available to carry out this subsection.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC2EAD0F68E914BEEAEA661C9CB5A4335" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Implementation grants</header><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6750243631D34FE4801C666BF5A52E52" changed="not-changed"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Single grant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of a single implementation grant provided under this subsection shall be not more than $2,000,000.</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id56565267368F41C79D06029AA822AF7F" changed="not-changed"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Aggregate amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The total amount of all implementation grants provided under this subsection for a fiscal year shall be not more than <fraction>2/3</fraction> of the total amount made available to carry out this subsection.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id74F5945A4EA94CF19FE132AEDCBAFABF" changed="not-changed"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal share</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id748FB5B8D73540F59834DCC70214EBD7" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subparagraph (C), the Federal share of a grant provided under this subsection shall not exceed 80 percent of the total project cost.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id886A9B43B9A54FB0A26BC2C98FC8799C" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Credit for implementation grants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall credit toward the non-Federal share of the cost of an implementation project carried out under this subsection the cost of planning, design, and construction work completed for the project using funds other than funds provided under this section.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71485B88BF2740DB94DABA640226A662" changed="not-changed"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exception</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may waive the Federal share limitation under subparagraph (A) for an eligible entity that has adequately demonstrated financial need.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDBD11F50AB954811AB06DDBD98F2DD28" changed="not-changed"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date on which the Administrator first awards a grant under this section, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that includes, with respect to the period covered by the report—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23A0C4BCEDDE4819B8CB7D7BEB6A6A23" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of all grants provided under this section;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA8989230A41745B68DDF17182FB31604" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a detailed description of—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id654658F3BBC4447AB34D8B337240624C" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the projects supported by those grants; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id64001D12862B4C7198D8AEEDA4EEEA3B" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the outcomes of those projects;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id45ED19B6068A4F77BAFEFF1B4B2C8E9A" changed="not-changed"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the improvements in technology, environmental benefits, resources conserved, efficiencies, and other benefits of the projects funded under this section;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA8170E3D67204F8FA4264A2977592D6C" changed="not-changed"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">recommendations for improvements to promote and support new and emerging, but proven, stormwater control infrastructure, including research into new and emerging technologies, for the centers, grants, and activities under this section; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1BABB44AAB7C40EFA520FD5DD1B18DB9" changed="not-changed"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of existing challenges concerning the use of new and emerging, but proven, stormwater control infrastructure.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8EB4AD29639B407B89D12B9EDD4DB034" changed="not-changed"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA3C27E48F3CB4B578C3941AC962B406F" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section (except for subsection (b)) $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. </text></paragraph><paragraph id="idBF07FB4970174A2B83AC6A4A6EAD9F31" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available for grants under paragraph (1), not more than 2 percent may be used to pay the administrative costs of the Administrator. </text></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id3ea2117013b2441e8ee482f11fbbb0f1" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>218.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Water Reuse Interagency Working Group</header><subsection id="id46a88d4de133467397272412f2ca3a32" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</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 Water Reuse Interagency Working Group (referred to in this section as the <term>Working Group</term>).</text></subsection><subsection id="idF28B2DC9CCBD4B3185F5FF9886C9A2B5" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Purpose</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The purpose of the Working Group is to develop and coordinate actions, tools, and resources to advance water reuse across the United States, including through the implementation of the February 2020 National Water Reuse Action Plan, which creates opportunities for water reuse in the mission areas of each of the Federal agencies included in the Working Group under subsection (c) (referred to in this section as the <term>Action Plan</term>).</text></subsection><subsection id="idd8790b3bfd7a44fb9bbfe01b504d61e9" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chairperson; membership</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Working Group shall be—</text><paragraph id="idBE7292E7852A4003BE353A70483D244E" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">chaired by the Administrator; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idFAF1B69173A9414CBFD7623BD3C655AF" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">comprised of senior representatives from such Federal agencies as the Administrator determines to be appropriate.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idf4d3bee6e4364710a88c1128593d483b" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties of the Working Group</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out this section, the Working Group shall—</text><paragraph id="id99b074789a4d40efb8b7eeca6b0fd07a" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with respect to water reuse, leverage the expertise of industry, the research community, nongovernmental organizations, and government;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idaa2654d0ef2e4dd3ac712becb91edbf5" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">seek to foster water reuse as an important component of integrated water resources management;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id0ea6466f5ddf4fc38da16956ef37539a" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conduct an assessment of new opportunities to advance water reuse and annually update the Action Plan with new actions, as necessary, to pursue those opportunities;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idFFE09DBC69064C45BC987C72FC4781AA" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">seek to coordinate Federal programs and policies to support the adoption of water reuse;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id3c35f276e9a44222828f2cbaba1eae7a" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consider how each Federal agency can explore and identify opportunities to support water reuse through the programs and activities of that Federal agency; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id3ccf1469f6d44ab593554db456c84ba5" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consult, on a regular basis, with representatives of relevant industries, the research community, and nongovernmental organizations.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id287af78626fe417a9c4eef524ccfb568" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not less frequently than once every 2 years, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report on the activities and findings of the Working Group.</text></subsection><subsection id="id7B02D9656B1A4AEB891AB20B383165BC" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sunset</header><paragraph id="id7DECDB15F27749688E0DFFC38B54DDF3" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (2), the Working Group shall terminate on the date that is 6 years after the date of enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id97AB46CB6D3E4EA88659E00B374BDB00" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Extension</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may extend the date of termination of the Working Group under paragraph (1). </text></paragraph></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="id73808C8A7B5B4662ABF31B80F09B71EA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>219.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Advanced clean water technologies study</header><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="idFA7B9D5328F24B72BDF5DAC258793A1C"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall carry out a study that examines the state of existing and potential future technology, including technology that could address cybersecurity vulnerabilities, that enhances or could enhance the treatment, monitoring, affordability, efficiency, and safety of wastewater services provided by a treatment works (as defined in section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1292">33 U.S.C. 1292</external-xref>)).</text></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="id9F5E323D79F448F89292FAB6C6D2C849"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report that describes the results of the study under subsection (a). </text></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="id11B75F3D80454D98A3230E53BC26E082" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>220.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clean watersheds needs survey</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1381">33 U.S.C. 1381</external-xref> et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id13FDA80CEEED43778DEC00C04BB6446E"><section display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="idAB0EFA3A694642AC8709C235EF5E1FBD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>609.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clean watersheds needs survey</header><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="idD2EBB5DFCFAE45F39A0F7AE80EC41C0E"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021</short-title>, and not less frequently than once every 4 years thereafter, the Administrator shall—</text><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="idFEF12C22AE3E4BD9ABE40E3C15C9858D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conduct and complete an assessment of capital improvement needs for all projects that are eligible under section 603(c) for assistance from State water pollution control revolving funds; and</text></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="id276CD29828784835BFB880518230F326"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit to Congress a report describing the results of the assessment completed under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idFE415007F82E4BF092E991F2C57AE86E" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</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 the initial needs survey under subsection (a) $5,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id757a2098-a09e-4020-9326-9a8c75ba54e1" section-type="subsequent-section" changed="not-changed"><enum>221.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Water Resources Research Act amendments</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddcd17301-e19d-4158-b1b6-e920004d5b3d" changed="not-changed"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clarification of research activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 104(b)(1) of the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10303">42 U.S.C. 10303(b)(1)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc9fbcd49-a45e-47a7-8e93-651f69d4ede7" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking <quote>water-related phenomena</quote> and inserting <quote>water resources</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb08fe870-537f-4c80-9ede-d8da35c6248a" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id66ed6107-9c2f-402e-b174-e0ce406a9ece" changed="not-changed"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Compliance report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 104 of the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10303">42 U.S.C. 10303</external-xref>) is amended by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0d6634df-a8f2-4fa7-8d65-2cb1516de11c" style="OLC" changed="not-changed"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf0eade0d-342e-4b81-b02f-fa8f9ca113d5" changed="not-changed"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc9a8e486-1dde-445d-80f4-7c932e437630" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From the sums appropriated pursuant to subsection (f), the Secretary shall make grants to each institute to be matched on a basis of no less than 1 non-Federal dollar for every 1 Federal dollar.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id88fb4d2a-0f74-44d4-abfc-87953dc0dfd1" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 31 of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate, the Committee on the Budget of the Senate, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives a report regarding the compliance of each funding recipient with this subsection for the immediately preceding fiscal year.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9143750b-b775-4c71-a346-e270a9376fb7" changed="not-changed"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluation of water resources research program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 104 of the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10303">42 U.S.C. 10303</external-xref>) is amended by striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id92df8653-de2c-46e5-84b4-e5c41016dc12" style="OLC" changed="not-changed"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3c2d744b-db8f-43f3-863c-822c03144424" changed="not-changed"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluation of water resources research program</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71082c34-f1dd-4795-9e3c-0f06e3830151" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall conduct a careful and detailed evaluation of each institute at least once every 5 years to determine—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddc2eba36-f97a-45e7-aa1a-c5701cf469be" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the quality and relevance of the water resources research of the institute;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6787c201-fa21-4b7b-909a-5d97283d5d86" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the effectiveness of the institute at producing measured results and applied water supply research; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2dce5342-fa9c-4cc9-9c84-f3acc3151a85" changed="not-changed"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the effectiveness of the institute as an institution for planning, conducting, and arranging for research warrants continued support under this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id09f2a080-d0d7-462f-8318-7ba61c45d524" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prohibition on further support</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If, as a result of an evaluation under paragraph (1), the Secretary determines that an institute does not qualify for further support under this section, no further grants to the institute may be provided until the qualifications of the institute are reestablished to the satisfaction of the Secretary.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id702dd361-498d-4b1f-8e84-d5a56b4a95a7" changed="not-changed"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 104(f)(1) of the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10303">42 U.S.C. 10303(f)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>fiscal years 2007 through 2011</quote> and inserting <quote>fiscal years 2022 through 2025</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="idd42c6658-6461-4239-88c5-41639e94d22f" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Additional appropriations where research focused on water problems of interstate nature</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 104(g)(1) of the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10303">42 U.S.C. 10303(g)(1)</external-xref>) is amended in the first sentence by striking <quote>$6,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2011</quote> and inserting <quote>$3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2025</quote>. </text></subsection></section><section id="id1B57218DA1894865AF6474D38FA975B2" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>222.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enhanced aquifer use and recharge</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title I of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1251">33 U.S.C. 1251</external-xref> et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCDC1400846914000A8311AD5A78AC0BD"><section id="idDF96CF9D8E4F4A93B8D405185CCC8138" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>124.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enhanced aquifer use and recharge</header><subsection id="id209794f573424e14b3e26dd1d126c41c" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator shall provide funding to carry out groundwater research on enhanced aquifer use and recharge in support of sole-source aquifers, of which—</text><paragraph id="id628ED4B8555D47F59886C299D7C60D2C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 50 percent shall be used to provide 1 grant to a State, unit of local government, or Indian Tribe to carry out activities that would directly support that research; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id8C226FF4F2DA4004B515A09884853BD8" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the remainder shall be provided to 1 appropriate research center. </text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id2B71B9CBAEBB45DEAAA7AC9A78115C91" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coordination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As a condition of accepting funds under subsection (a), the State, unit of local government, or Indian Tribe and the appropriate research center that receive funds under that subsection shall establish a formal research relationship for the purpose of coordinating efforts under this section. </text></subsection><subsection id="idA87B91A36749441387BA70DC34CD1DED" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</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 section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>Passed the Senate April 29, 2021.Secretary