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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3751 

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a program 

to make grants to eligible entities to increase the resilience of publicly 

owned treatment works to natural disasters, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 8, 2021 

Mr. CARBAJAL 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 establish a program to make grants to eligible entities to 

increase the resilience of publicly owned treatment works 

to natural disasters, 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 ‘‘Clean Water Infra5 structure Resilience and Sustainability Act of 2021’’. 


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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. 1281 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) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

9 ‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en10 tity’ means— 

11 ‘‘(A) a municipality; or 

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

13 agency. 

14 ‘‘(2) NATURAL HAZARD.—The term ‘natural 

15 hazard’ means a natural event that threatens the 

16 functioning of a publicly owned treatment works, in17 cluding extreme weather events and hydrological 

18 changes. 

19 ‘‘(3) PROGRAM.—The term ‘program’ means 

20 the clean water infrastructure resilience and sustain21 ability program established under subsection (b). 

22 ‘‘(4) RESILIENCE.—The term ‘resilience’ means 

23 the ability of a publicly owned treatment works or 

24 an asset of a publicly owned treatment works— 


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1 ‘‘(A) to adapt to, or withstand the effects 

2 of, a natural hazard, without interruption to the 

3 function of the plant or asset; or 

4 ‘‘(B) if the function is interrupted due to 

5 a natural hazard, to rapidly return to a normal 

6 operating condition. 

7 ‘‘(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Administrator shall es8 tablish a clean water infrastructure resilience and sustain9 ability program under which the Administrator shall 

10 award grants to eligible entities for the purpose of increas11 ing the resilience of publicly owned treatment works to a 

12 natural hazard. 

13 ‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—An eligible entity that receives 

14 a grant under the program shall use the grant funds for 

15 planning, designing, or constructing projects (on a system16 wide or area-wide basis) that increase the resilience of a 

17 publicly owned treatment works to a natural hazard 

18 through— 

19 ‘‘(1) the conservation of water; 

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

21 ‘‘(3) the enhancement of wastewater and 

22 stormwater management by increasing watershed 

23 preservation and protection, including through the 

24 use of— 


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1 ‘‘(A) natural and engineered green infra2 structure; and 

3 ‘‘(B) reclamation and reuse of wastewater 

4 and stormwater, such as aquifer recharge zones; 

5 ‘‘(4) the modification or relocation of an exist6 ing publicly owned treatment works that is at risk 

7 of being significantly impaired or damaged by a nat8 ural hazard; 

9 ‘‘(5) the development and implementation of 

10 projects to increase the resilience of publicly owned 

11 treatment works to a natural hazard; or 

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

13 the use and generation of recovered or renewable en14 ergy in the management, treatment, or conveyance 

15 of wastewater or stormwater. 

16 ‘‘(d) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a grant 

17 under the program, an eligible entity shall submit to the 

18 Administrator an application at such time, in such man19 ner, and containing such information as the Administrator 

20 may require, including— 

21 ‘‘(1) a proposal of the project to be planned, de22 signed, or constructed using funds under the pro23 gram; 

24 ‘‘(2) an identification of the natural hazard risk 

25 to be addressed by the proposed project; 


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1 ‘‘(3) documentation prepared by a Federal, 

2 State, regional, or local government agency of the 

3 natural hazard risk of the area where the proposed 

4 project is to be located; 

5 ‘‘(4) a description of any recent natural hazard 

6 events that have affected the publicly owned treat7 ment works; 

8 ‘‘(5) a description of how the proposed project 

9 would improve the performance of the publicly 

10 owned treatment works under an anticipated natural 

11 hazard; and 

12 ‘‘(6) an explanation of how the proposed project 

13 is expected to enhance the resilience of the publicly 

14 owned treatment works to an anticipated natural 

15 hazard. 

16 ‘‘(e) GRANT AMOUNT AND OTHER FEDERAL RE17 QUIREMENTS.— 

18 ‘‘(1) COST SHARE.—A grant under the program 

19 shall not exceed 75 percent of the total cost of the 

20 proposed project. 

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

22 section 608 shall apply to a project funded with a 

23 grant under the program. 


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

2 is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 

3 $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.’’. 

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