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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2776 

To make certain municipalities eligible for grants under the Federal Water 

Pollution Control Act, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 15, 2019 

Mrs. TRAHAN (for herself, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. ROUDA, Ms. 

TLAIB, Ms. KUSTER of New Hampshire, Mr. TRONE, Mrs. BUSTOS, Mr. 

ESPAILLAT, Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. RYAN, Mr. BEYER, and Mr. SERRANO) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To make certain municipalities eligible for grants under the 

Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Sewage Overflow 

5 Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SEWER OVERFLOW AND STORMWATER REUSE MU7 NICIPAL GRANTS. 

8 Section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 

9 Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) is amended— 


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1 (1) in subsection (b)— 

2 (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘or’’; 

3 (B) in paragraph (4), by striking the pe4 riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 

5 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

6 ‘‘(5) is a municipality with high levels of sewage 

7 in the rivers of such municipality.’’; 

8 (2) in subsection (d)— 

9 (A) by striking ‘‘The Federal share’’ and 

10 inserting the following: 

11 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para12 graph (2), the Federal share’’; and 

13 (B) by adding at the end the following: 

14 ‘‘(2) EXCEPTION FOR CERTAIN PROJECTS.— 

15 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Federal share of 

16 the cost of activities carried out using amounts 

17 from a grant made under subsection (a) for a 

18 municipality described in subsection (b)(5) shall 

19 be as follows: 

20 ‘‘(i) Not less than 55 percent for mu21 nicipalities the affected residents of which 

22 pay, on average, 2.0 percent or less of 

23 their household income for sewer service. 

24 ‘‘(ii) Not less than 60 percent for mu25 nicipalities the affected residents of which 


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1 pay, on average, more than 2.0 percent, 

2 but not more than 2.5 percent, of their 

3 household income for sewer service. 

4 ‘‘(iii) Not less than 65 percent for 

5 municipalities the affected residents of 

6 which pay, on average, more than 2.5 per7 cent, but not more than 3.0 percent, of 

8 their household income for sewer service. 

9 ‘‘(iv) Not less than 70 percent for mu10 nicipalities the affected residents of which 

11 pay, on average, more than 3.0 percent, 

12 but not more than 3.5 percent, of their 

13 household income for sewer service. 

14 ‘‘(v) Not less than 75 percent for mu15 nicipalities the affected residents of which 

16 pay, on average, more than 3.5 percent of 

17 their household income for sewer service. 

18 ‘‘(B) AFFECTED RESIDENTS DEFINED.— 

19 For purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘af20 fected resident’ means a resident of a munici21 pality who is in the 20th percentile of income 

22 for the municipality.’’; and 

23 (3) in subsection (f)(1)— 

24 (A) by striking ‘‘$225,000,000’’ and in25 serting ‘‘$500,000,000’’; and 


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1 (B) by striking ‘‘2020’’ and inserting 

2 ‘‘2030’’. 

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