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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7633 

To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make 

grants to public housing agencies and owners of other federally assisted 

housing to cover the costs of removing and replacing lead-based water 

service pipes for federally assisted housing projects, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 16, 2020 

Mr. GARCI ́A of Illinois (for himself, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, 

Ms. TLAIB, Mr. LYNCH, Ms. NORTON, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. RUSH, Ms. 

OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. POCAN, Mr. RYAN, Ms. DELAURO, Mrs. BEATTY, 

Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. NADLER, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS

of Illinois, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. SUOZZI, Ms. 

JAYAPAL, Mr. KENNEDY, and Mr. TAKANO) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 

A BILL 

To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to public housing agencies and 

owners of other federally assisted housing to cover the 

costs of removing and replacing lead-based water service 

pipes for federally assisted housing projects, and for 

other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Lead Abatement for 

3 Families Act of 2020’’. 

4 SEC. 60016. LEAD ABATEMENT FOR FAMILIES. 

5 (a) IDENTIFICATION OF LEAD WATER SERVICE

6 LINES.— 

7 (1) REVIEW.—The Secretary of Housing and 

8 Urban Development, in consultation with public 

9 housing agencies, owners of other federally assisted 

10 housing, and the Administrator of the Environ11 mental Protection Administration shall, not later 

12 than the expiration of the 24-month period begin13 ning upon the date of the enactment of this Act, un14 dertake and complete a review of all public housing 

15 projects and all other federally assisted housing 

16 projects to identify any such projects for which the 

17 source of potable water is a lead-based water service 

18 pipe or pipes. 

19 (2) REPORT.—Upon completion of the review 

20 required under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall 

21 submit a report to the Congress setting forth the re22 sults of the review and identifying any projects for 

23 which the source of potable water is a lead-based 

24 water service pipe or pipes. 

25 (b) GRANT AUTHORITY.— 


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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may make 

2 grants to public housing agencies and owners of 

3 other federally assisted housing to cover the eligible 

4 costs of fully removing and replacing lead-based 

5 water service pipes for housing projects identified 

6 pursuant to the review under subsection (a). 

7 (2) ELIGIBLE COSTS.—Amounts from a grant 

8 under this subsection may be used only for costs of 

9 fully removing and replacing a lead-based water 

10 service pipe for a housing project. 

11 (3) ASSURANCES.—The Secretary shall require 

12 each public housing agency and owner of other fed13 erally assisted housing receiving a grant under this 

14 subsection for a housing project to make such assur15 ances and enter into such agreements as the Sec16 retary considers necessary to ensure that— 

17 (A) the lead-based water service pipes for 

18 the project that will be fully removed and re19 placed using such grant amounts are identified; 

20 and 

21 (B) all work to fully remove and replace 

22 such pipes is completed before the expiration of 

23 the 24-month period beginning upon the initial 

24 availability to the agency or owner of such 

25 grant amounts. 


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1 (4) LIMITATION ON AMOUNTS.—The amount of 

2 grant under this subsection with respect to a hous3 ing project may not exceed the estimate of the Sec4 retary of the full cost of removing and replacing the 

5 lead-based water service pipes for the project identi6 fied pursuant to paragraph (3)(A). 

7 (c) FINAL REPORT.—Upon the expiration of the 6- 

8 year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this 

9 Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Congress a report 

10 identifying the housing projects for which lead-based 

11 water service pipes were removed and replaced using 

12 grants under subsection (b) and analyzing the effective13 ness of the program for such grants. 

14 (d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 

15 following definitions shall apply: 

16 (1) HOUSING PROJECT.—The term ‘‘housing 

17 project’’ means a public housing project or a project 

18 that is other federally assisted housing. 

19 (2) OTHER FEDERALLY ASSISTED HOUSING.— 

20 The term ‘‘other federally assisted housing’’ has the 

21 meaning given the term ‘‘federally assisted housing’’ 

22 in section 683 of the Housing and Community De23 velopment Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 13641), except 

24 that such term does not include any public housing 


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1 project described in paragraph (2)(A) of such sec2 tion. 

3 (3) LEAD-BASED WATER SERVICE PIPE.—The 

4 term ‘‘lead-based water service pipe’’ means, with re5 spect to a housing project, a pipe or other conduit 

6 that— 

7 (A) is used to supply potable water for the 

8 housing project from outside the project; and 

9 (B) does not satisfy the definition of ‘‘lead10 free’’ established under section 1417 of the Safe 

11 Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g–6). 

12 (4) PUBLIC HOUSING.—The term ‘‘public hous13 ing’’ has the meaning given such term in section 

14 3(b) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 

15 U.S.C. 1437a(b)). 

16 (5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

17 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 

18 (e) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary, after consulta19 tion with the Administrator of the Environmental Protec20 tion Administration, may issue any regulations necessary 

21 to carry out this section. 

22 (f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

23 authorized to be appropriated for grants under subsection 

24 (b)— 

25 (1) $90,000,000 for fiscal year 2021; 


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1 (2) $80,000,000 for fiscal year 2022; and 

2 (3) $80,000,000 for fiscal year 2023. 

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