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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3745 

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a 

decentralized wastewater grant program, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 8, 2021 

Ms. SEWELL (for herself and Mr. BABIN) 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 decentralized wastewater grant program, 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 ‘‘Decentralized Waste5 water Grant Act of 2021’’. 

6 SEC. 2. DECENTRALIZED WASTEWATER GRANT PROGRAM. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title II of the Federal Water Pol8 lution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1281 et seq.) is amended 

9 by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘SEC. 222. GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, OR RE2 PLACEMENT OF INDIVIDUAL HOUSEHOLD DE3 CENTRALIZED WASTEWATER TREATMENT 

4 SYSTEMS. 

5 ‘‘(a) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘eligible 

6 individual’ means a member of a household, the members 

7 of which have a combined income (for the most recent 12- 

8 month period for which information is available) equal to 

9 not more than 50 percent of the median nonmetropolitan 

10 household income for the State in which the household is 

11 located, according to the most recent decennial census. 

12 ‘‘(b) GRANT PROGRAM.—The Administrator shall es13 tablish a program to provide a grant to a qualified non14 profit organization, as determined by the Administrator, 

15 to provide a subgrant to an eligible individual— 

16 ‘‘(1) for the construction, repair, or replacement 

17 of an individual household decentralized wastewater 

18 treatment system; 

19 ‘‘(2) if the eligible individual resides in a house20 hold that could be cost-effectively connected to an 

21 available publicly owned treatment works, for the 

22 connection of the household of the eligible individual 

23 to the publicly owned treatment works; or 

24 ‘‘(3) for the installation of a larger decentral25 ized wastewater system designed to provide treatVerDate Sep 11 2014 20:12 Jun 27, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H3745.IH H3745

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1 ment for 2 or more households in which eligible indi2 viduals reside, if— 

3 ‘‘(A) site conditions at the households are 

4 unsuitable for the installation of an individually 

5 owned decentralized wastewater system; 

6 ‘‘(B) multiple examples of unsuitable site 

7 conditions exist in close geographic proximity to 

8 each other; and 

9 ‘‘(C) a larger decentralized wastewater sys10 tem could be cost-effectively installed. 

11 ‘‘(c) PRIORITY.—In awarding subgrants under this 

12 section, a qualified nonprofit organization that receives a 

13 grant under this section shall give priority to— 

14 ‘‘(1) an eligible individual who does not have 

15 access to a functioning sanitary sewage disposal sys16 tem; and 

17 ‘‘(2) a group of eligible individuals that do not 

18 have access to a functioning sanitary sewage dis19 posal system. 

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

21 under this section, a qualified nonprofit organization shall 

22 submit to the Administrator an application at such time, 

23 in such manner, and containing such information as the 

24 Administrator may require. 

25 ‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 

2 appropriated to the Administrator to carry out this 

3 section $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 

4 through 2026. 

5 ‘‘(2) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—Of the 

6 amounts made available for grants under paragraph 

7 (1), not more than 2 percent may be used to pay the 

8 administrative costs of the Administrator.’’. 

9 (b) WATER POLLUTION CONTROL REVOLVING LOAN

10 FUNDS.—Section 603 of the Federal Water Pollution 

11 Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1383) is amended— 

12 (1) in subsection (c)— 

13 (A) in paragraph (10), by adding ‘‘and’’ at 

14 the end; 

15 (B) in paragraph (11)(B), by striking ‘‘; 

16 and’’ at the end and inserting a period; and 

17 (C) by striking paragraph (12); and 

18 (2) by striking subsection (j). 

19 (c) NO REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—Section 4107 of 

20 the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (Public 

21 Law 115–270; 132 Stat. 3877) is amended by striking 

22 subsection (b). 

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