117th CONGRESS 1st Session |
To make certain municipalities eligible for grants under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and for other purposes.
March 8, 2021
Mrs. Trahan (for herself, Mr. LaHood, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Pappas, and Ms. Kuster) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
To make certain municipalities eligible for grants under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Stop Sewage Overflow Act”.
SEC. 2. Sewer overflow and stormwater reuse municipal grants.
Section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) is amended—
(A) in paragraph (3), by striking “or”;
(B) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; or”; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
“(5) is a municipality with high levels of sewage in the rivers, lakes, and bays of such municipality.”;
(A) by striking “The Federal share” and inserting the following:
“(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the Federal share”; and
(B) by striking “The non-Federal share” and inserting the following:
“(B) FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES.—The Federal share of the cost of activities carried out using amounts from a grant made to a financially distressed community under subsection (a) shall be not less than 75 percent of the cost.
“(2) NON-FEDERAL SHARE.—The non-Federal share”; and
(i) by striking “$225,000,000” and inserting “$500,000,000”; and
(ii) by striking “2020” and inserting “2030”; and
(B) in paragraph (2) by striking “20 percent” and inserting “25 percent”.