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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5030 

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for technical 

assistance for small treatment works. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 15, 2018 

Mr. HARPER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to 

provide for technical assistance for small treatment works. 

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

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Small and Rural Com5 munity Clean Water Technical Assistance Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR SMALL TREATMENT 

7 WORKS. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title II of the Federal Water Pol9 lution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1281 et seq.) is amended 

10 by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘SEC. 222. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR SMALL TREAT2 MENT WORKS. 

3 ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

4 ‘‘(1) QUALIFIED NONPROFIT SMALL TREAT5 MENT WORKS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDER.— 

6 The term ‘qualified nonprofit small treatment works 

7 technical assistance provider’ means a nonprofit or8 ganization that, as determined by the Adminis9 trator— 

10 ‘‘(A) is qualified and experienced in pro11 viding training and technical assistance to small 

12 treatment works; and 

13 ‘‘(B) the small treatment works in the 

14 State finds to be the most beneficial and effec15 tive. 

16 ‘‘(2) SMALL TREATMENT WORKS.—The term 

17 ‘small treatment works’ means a publicly owned 

18 treatment works serving not more than 10,000 indi19 viduals. 

20 ‘‘(b) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Administrator 

21 may use amounts made available to carry out this section 

22 to provide grants or cooperative agreements to qualified 

23 nonprofit small treatment works technical assistance pro24 viders to provide to owners and operators of small treat25 ment works onsite technical assistance, circuit rider tech26 nical assistance programs, multi-State, regional technical 


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1 assistance programs, and onsite and regional training, to 

2 assist the small treatment works in achieving compliance 

3 with this Act or obtaining financing under this Act for 

4 eligible projects. 

5 ‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

6 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 

7 for grants for small treatment works technical assistance, 

8 $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 2022. 

9 ‘‘SEC. 223. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR MEDIUM TREAT10 MENT WORKS. 

11 ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

12 ‘‘(1) MEDIUM TREATMENT WORKS.—The term 

13 ‘medium treatment works’ means a publicly owned 

14 treatment works serving not fewer than 10,001 and 

15 not more than 75,000 individuals. 

16 ‘‘(2) QUALIFIED NONPROFIT MEDIUM TREAT17 MENT WORKS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDER.— 

18 The term ‘qualified nonprofit medium treatment 

19 works technical assistance provider’ means a quali20 fied nonprofit technical assistance provider of water 

21 and wastewater services to medium-sized commu22 nities that provides technical assistance (including 

23 circuit rider technical assistance programs, multi24 State, regional assistance programs, and training 

25 and preliminary engineering evaluations) to owners 


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1 and operators of medium treatment works, which 

2 may include a State agency. 

3 ‘‘(b) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Administrator 

4 may use amounts made available to carry out this section 

5 to provide grants or cooperative agreements to qualified 

6 nonprofit medium treatment works technical assistance 

7 providers to provide to owners and operators of medium 

8 treatment works onsite technical assistance, circuit-rider 

9 technical assistance programs, multi-State, regional tech10 nical assistance programs, and onsite and regional train11 ing to assist medium treatment works that are facing dif12 ficulty in achieving compliance with this Act or obtaining 

13 financing under this Act for eligible projects. 

14 ‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

15 is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 

16 $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 2022.’’. 

17 (b) WATER POLLUTION CONTROL REVOLVING LOAN

18 FUNDS.— 

19 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 603 of the Federal 

20 Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1383) is 

21 amended— 

22 (A) in subsection (d)— 

23 (i) in the matter preceding paragraph 

24 (1), by inserting ‘‘and as provided in sub25 section (e)’’ after ‘‘State law’’; 


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1 (ii) by redesignating subsections (e) 

2 through (i) as subsections (f) through (j), 

3 respectively; and 

4 (iii) by inserting after subsection (d) 

5 the following: 

6 ‘‘(e) ADDITIONAL USE OF FUNDS.—A State may use 

7 an additional 2 percent of the funds annually allotted to 

8 the State under this section for qualified nonprofit small 

9 treatment works technical assistance providers (as the 

10 term is defined in section 222) and qualified nonprofit me11 dium treatment works technical assistance providers (as 

12 the term is defined in section 223) to provide technical 

13 assistance to small treatment works (as the term is de14 fined in section 222) and medium treatment works (as the 

15 term is defined in section 223) in the State.’’. 

16 (2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 

17 221(d) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 

18 (33 U.S.C. 1301(d)) is amended by striking ‘‘section 

19 603(h)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 603(i)’’. 

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