[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 138 (Tuesday, August 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5773-S5774]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2426. Mr. RUBIO (for himself and Mr. Kelly) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr. Schumer 
(for Ms. Sinema (for herself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Cassidy, 
Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Collins, Mr. Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Warner, and 
Mr. Romney)) to the bill H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for Federal-aid 
highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        On page 2010, line 6, insert ``pursuant to section 
     516(b)(1)'' after ``assessment''.
       On page 2010, line 11, insert ``pursuant to section 
     516(b)(1)'' after ``assessment''.
       On page 2010, line 14, insert ``to the Administrator'' 
     after ``appropriated''.
       On page 2010, strike line 16 and insert the following: 
     available until expended.
       ``(c) Funding.--Each fiscal year, a State may reserve up to 
     0.5 percent of the sums allotted to the State under this 
     title for the fiscal year to carry out activities under 
     section 516(b)(1)(B).''.
       On page 2014, between lines 10 and 11, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 502__. REPORTS TO CONGRESS.

       Section 516(b)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
     Act (33 U.S.C. 1375(b)(1)) is amended by striking ``(B) a 
     detailed estimate, biennially revised, of the cost of 
     construction of all needed publicly owned treatment works in 
     all of the States and of the cost of construction of all 
     needed publicly owned treatment works in each of the 
     States;'' and inserting ``(B) a detailed estimate, biennially 
     revised, of the cost of construction of all planned publicly 
     owned treatment works in all of the States and all needed 
     publicly owned treatment works in all of the States, and the 
     cost of construction of all planned publicly owned treatment 
     works in each of the States and all needed publicly owned 
     treatment works in each of the States, which shall include 
     (i) the cost of construction to rehabilitate or upgrade all 
     existing publicly owned treatment works (excluding any pipe 
     or other device or system for the conveyance of wastewater), 
     every 20 years, including the costs to implement measures 
     necessary to address the resilience and sustainability of 
     publicly owned treatment works to manmade or natural 
     disasters and (ii) the cost of construction to replace 10 
     percent of existing publicly owned pipes and other devices 
     and systems for the conveyance of wastewater to such 
     treatment works over the 20-year period following the date of 
     the estimate;''.

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