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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.

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

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.

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 ‘‘Rural Community

5 Clean Water Assistance Act of 1993’’.
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1 SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CON2 TROL ACT.

3 The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C.

4 1251–1387) is amended by adding at the end the follow5 ing:

6 ‘‘TITLE VII—CONSTRUCTION

7 GRANT PROGRAM FOR

8 TREATMENT WORKS IN

9 RURAL COMMUNITIES

10 ‘‘SEC. 701. GRANTS.

11 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator is authorized

12 to make grants to any State, municipality, or

13 intermunicipal or interstate agency for the construction of

14 publicly owned treatment works located in economically

15 distressed rural communities and for any purpose for

16 which a grant may be made under sections 319(h) and

17 319(i) of this Act (including innovative and alternative ap18 proaches for the control of nonpoint sources of pollution).

19 ‘‘(b) APPLICATION.—Any State, municipality, or

20 agency referred to in subsection (a) interested in receiving

21 a grant under this title shall submit to the Administrator

22 an application for such grant. Such application shall be

23 in such form and contain such information as the Admin24 istrator may require by regulation.

25 ‘‘(c) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—Grants made under

26 this title shall be subject to such terms and conditions as
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1 the Administrator may require by regulation to carry out

2 the objectives of this title.

3 ‘‘SEC. 702. FEDERAL SHARE.

4 ‘‘The Federal share of any grant made under this

5 title shall be 90 percent of the cost of construction. The

6 non-Federal share of such costs shall be provided from

7 non-Federal sources of funding.

8 ‘‘SEC. 703. ALLOTMENT.

9 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Sums authorized to be appro10 priated for a fiscal year pursuant to section 704 shall be

11 allotted among the States for such fiscal year by the Ad12 ministrator not later than the 10th day which begins after

13 the date of the enactment of this title in the ratio which

14 the population in economically distressed rural commu15 nities of each State bears to the total population in eco16 nomically distressed rural communities of all the States.

17 ‘‘(b) PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY; REALLOTMENT.—

18 Sums allotted to the States for a fiscal year shall remain

19 available for obligation for the fiscal year for which au20 thorized and for the period of the next succeeding 12

21 months. The amount of any allotment not obligated by the

22 end of such 24-month period shall be immediately reallot23 ted by the Administrator on the basis of the same ratio

24 as applicable to sums allotted for the then current fiscal

25 year, except that none of the funds reallotted by the Ad-
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1 ministrator for a fiscal year shall be allotted to any State

2 which failed to obligate any of the funds being reallotted.

3 Any sum made available to a State by reallotment under

4 this subsection shall be in addition to any funds otherwise

5 allotted to such State for grants under this title during

6 any fiscal year.

7 ‘‘SEC. 704. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

8 ‘‘There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out

9 this title $300,000,000 per fiscal year for fiscal years

10 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. Such sums

11 shall remain available until expended.

12 ‘‘SEC. 705. DEFINITIONS.

13 ‘‘In this title, the following definitions apply:

14 ‘‘(1) CONSTRUCTION.—The term ‘construction’

15 has the meaning such term has in section 212.

16 ‘‘(2) ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED RURAL COM17 MUNITY.—The term ‘economically distressed rural

18 community’ means a rural community in which the

19 median household income of the residents of such

20 community is less than 75 percent of the national

21 median household income, as determined by the lat22 est decennial census of the United States.

23 ‘‘(3) RURAL COMMUNITY.—The term ‘rural

24 community’ means a political subdivision of a State
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1 with a population of less than 20,000, as determined

2 by the latest decennial census of the United States.

3 ‘‘(4) TREATMENT WORKS.—The term ‘treat4 ment works’ has the meaning such term has in sec5 tion 212.’’.

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