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[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1033 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1033

 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a grant 
     program for construction of publicly owned treatment works in 
               economically distressed rural communities.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 23, 1993

  Mr. Hayes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Public Works and Transportation

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                                 A BILL

 
 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a grant 
     program for construction of publicly owned treatment works in 
               economically distressed rural communities.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rural Community Clean Water 
Assistance Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT.

    The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251-1387) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:

 ``TITLE VII--CONSTRUCTION GRANT PROGRAM FOR TREATMENT WORKS IN RURAL 
                              COMMUNITIES

``SEC. 701. GRANTS.

    ``(a) In General.--The Administrator is authorized to make grants 
to any State, municipality, or intermunicipal or interstate agency for 
the construction of publicly owned treatment works located in 
economically distressed rural communities and for any purpose for which 
a grant may be made under sections 319(h) and 319(i) of this Act 
(including innovative and alternative approaches for the control of 
nonpoint sources of pollution).
    ``(b) Application.--Any State, municipality, or agency referred to 
in subsection (a) interested in receiving a grant under this title 
shall submit to the Administrator an application for such grant. Such 
application shall be in such form and contain such information as the 
Administrator may require by regulation.
    ``(c) Terms and Conditions.--Grants made under this title shall be 
subject to such terms and conditions as the Administrator may require 
by regulation to carry out the objectives of this title.

``SEC. 702. FEDERAL SHARE.

    ``The Federal share of any grant made under this title shall be 90 
percent of the cost of construction. The non-Federal share of such 
costs shall be provided from non-Federal sources of funding.

``SEC. 703. ALLOTMENT.

    ``(a) In General.--Sums authorized to be appropriated for a fiscal 
year pursuant to section 704 shall be allotted among the States for 
such fiscal year by the Administrator not later than the 10th day which 
begins after the date of the enactment of this title in the ratio which 
the population in economically distressed rural communities of each 
State bears to the total population in economically distressed rural 
communities of all the States.
    ``(b) Period of Availability; Reallotment.--Sums allotted to the 
States for a fiscal year shall remain available for obligation for the 
fiscal year for which authorized and for the period of the next 
succeeding 12 months. The amount of any allotment not obligated by the 
end of such 24-month period shall be immediately reallotted by the 
Administrator on the basis of the same ratio as applicable to sums 
allotted for the then current fiscal year, except that none of the 
funds reallotted by the Administrator for a fiscal year shall be 
allotted to any State which failed to obligate any of the funds being 
reallotted. Any sum made available to a State by reallotment under this 
subsection shall be in addition to any funds otherwise allotted to such 
State for grants under this title during any fiscal year.

``SEC. 704. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    ``There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this title 
$300,000,000 per fiscal year for fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 
1998, and 1999. Such sums shall remain available until expended.

``SEC. 705. DEFINITIONS.

    ``In this title, the following definitions apply:
            ``(1) Construction.--The term `construction' has the 
        meaning such term has in section 212.
            ``(2) Economically distressed rural community.--The term 
        `economically distressed rural community' means a rural 
        community in which the median household income of the residents 
        of such community is less than 75 percent of the national 
        median household income, as determined by the latest decennial 
        census of the United States.
            ``(3) Rural community.--The term `rural community' means a 
        political subdivision of a State with a population of less than 
        20,000, as determined by the latest decennial census of the 
        United States.
            ``(4) Treatment works.--The term `treatment works' has the 
        meaning such term has in section 212.''.

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