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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2470 

To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to make grants to eligible entities to increase the resilience 

of publicly owned treatment works to natural disasters. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 2, 2019 

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

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 

Agency to establish a program to make grants to eligible 

entities to increase the resilience of publicly owned treatment works to natural disasters. 

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 ‘‘Clean Water Infra5 structure Resilience and Sustainability Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. CLEAN WATER INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCY AND 

2 SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM. 

3 Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 

4 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 

5 the following: 

6 ‘‘SEC. 222. CLEAN WATER INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCY 

7 AND SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM. 

8 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall estab9 lish a clean water infrastructure resilience and sustain10 ability program, under which the Administrator shall 

11 award grants to eligible entities for the purpose of increas12 ing the resilience of publicly owned treatment works to a 

13 natural disaster. 

14 ‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.—An eligible entity that receives 

15 a grant under this section shall use such grant funds for 

16 planning, designing, or constructing projects (on a system17 wide or area-wide basis) that increase the resilience of a 

18 publicly owned treatment works to a natural disaster 

19 through— 

20 ‘‘(1) the conservation of water; 

21 ‘‘(2) the enhancement of water use efficiency; 

22 ‘‘(3) the enhancement of wastewater and 

23 stormwater management by increasing watershed 

24 preservation and protection, including through the 

25 use of natural and engineered green infrastructure, 


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1 and reclamation and reuse of wastewater and 

2 stormwater, such as aquifer recharge zones; 

3 ‘‘(4) the modification or relocation of an exist4 ing publicly owned treatment works at risk of being 

5 significantly impaired or damaged by a natural dis6 aster; 

7 ‘‘(5) the development and implementation of 

8 projects to increase the resilience of publicly owned 

9 treatment works to a natural disaster; or 

10 ‘‘(6) the enhancement of energy efficiency or 

11 the use and generation of recovered or renewable en12 ergy in management, treatment, or conveyance of 

13 wastewater or stormwater. 

14 ‘‘(c) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a grant 

15 under this section, an eligible entity shall submit to the 

16 Administrator an application that— 

17 ‘‘(1) includes a proposal of the project to be 

18 planned, designed, or constructed using funds under 

19 this section; 

20 ‘‘(2) identifies the natural disaster risk to be 

21 addressed by the proposed project; 

22 ‘‘(3) provides documentation prepared by a 

23 Federal, State, regional, or local government agency 

24 of the natural disaster risk to the area where the 

25 proposed project is to be located; 


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1 ‘‘(4) includes a description of any recent nat2 ural disaster events that have affected the publicly 

3 owned treatment works; 

4 ‘‘(5) includes a description of how the proposed 

5 project would improve the performance of the pub6 licly owned treatment works under an anticipated 

7 natural disaster; and 

8 ‘‘(6) explains how the proposed project is ex9 pected to enhance the resilience of the publicly 

10 owned treatment works to an anticipated natural 

11 disaster. 

12 ‘‘(d) GRANT AMOUNT AND OTHER FEDERAL RE13 QUIREMENTS.— 

14 ‘‘(1) GRANT AMOUNT.—A grant under this sec15 tion shall not exceed 75 percent of the total cost of 

16 the proposed project. 

17 ‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The requirements of 

18 section 608 of this Act shall apply to any project 

19 funded under this section. 

20 ‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following 

21 definitions apply: 

22 ‘‘(1) NATURAL DISASTER.—The term ‘natural 

23 disaster’ means a disaster caused by natural forces, 

24 including extreme weather events, sea-level rise, or 

25 extreme drought conditions. 


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1 ‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en2 tity’ means— 

3 ‘‘(A) a municipality; or 

4 ‘‘(B) an intermunicipal, interstate, or State 

5 agency. 

6 ‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

7 is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 

8 $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2025.’’. 

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