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Union Calendar No. 327
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3313
[Report No. 106–597]
To amend section 119 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to
reauthorize the program for Long Island Sound, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 10, 1999
Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut (for herself, Mr. LAZIO, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr.
GEJDENSON, Mr. BOEHLERT, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. LARSON,
Mr. KING, Mr. MALONEY of Connecticut, Mr. WALSH, Ms. DELAURO,
Mr. GILMAN, Mr. OWENS, Mrs. KELLY, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York,
Mr. FOSSELLA, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. WEINER, Mr. SWEENEY,
Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. FORBES, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. NADLER,
Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. ENGEL, Mrs. MALONEY of New York, Ms. SLAUGH-
TER, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, and Mr. RANGEL) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure
MAY 2, 2000
Additional sponsors: Mr. HOUGHTON, Mr. QUINN, Mr. LAFALCE, Mr.
KINGSTON, Mr. ENGLISH, Mrs. MORELLA, and Mr. PORTER
MAY 2, 2000
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on November 10, 1999]
A BILL
To amend section 119 of the Federal Water Pollution Con-
trol Act to reauthorize the program for Long Island
Sound, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Long Island Sound Res-
toration Act’’.
SEC. 2. NITROGEN CREDIT TRADING SYSTEM AND OTHER
MEASURES.
Section 119(c)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution Con-
trol Act (33 U.S.C. 1269(c)(1)) is amended by inserting
‘‘, including efforts to establish, within the process for
granting watershed general permits, a system for trading
nitrogen credits and any other measures that are cost-effec-
tive and consistent with the goals of the Plan’’ before the
semicolon at the end.
SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE FOR DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES.
Section 119 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act
(33 U.S.C. 1269) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection
(f); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(e) ASSISTANCE TO DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES.—
‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE COMMUNITIES.—
‘‘(A) STATES TO DETERMINE CRITERIA.—
For the purposes of this subsection, a distressed
community is any community that meets afford-
ability criteria established by the State in which
the community is located, if such criteria are de-
veloped after public review and comment.
‘‘(B) CONSIDERATION OF IMPACT ON WATER
AND SEWER RATES.—In determining if a com-
munity is a distressed community for the pur-
poses of this subsection, the State shall consider
the extent to which the rate of growth of a com-
munity’s tax base has been historically slow such
that implementing the plan described in sub-
section (c)(1) would result in a significant in-
crease in any water or sewer rate charged by the
community’s publicly-owned wastewater treat-
ment facility.
‘‘(C) INFORMATION
TO
ASSIST
STATES.—
The Administrator may publish information to
assist States in establishing affordability criteria
under subparagraph (A).
‘‘(2) REVOLVING LOAN FUNDS.—
‘‘(A) LOAN SUBSIDIES.—Subject to subpara-
graph (B), any State making a loan to a dis-
tressed community from a revolving fund under
title VI for the purpose of assisting the imple-
mentation of the plan described in subsection
(c)(1) may provide additional subsidization (in-
cluding forgiveness of principal).
‘‘(B) TOTAL AMOUNT OF SUBSIDIES.—For
each fiscal year, the total amount of loan sub-
sidies made by a State under subparagraph (A)
may not exceed 30 percent of the amount of the
capitalization grant received by the State for the
year.
‘‘(3) PRIORITY.—In making assistance available
under this section for the upgrading of wastewater
treatment facilities, a State may give priority to a
distressed community.’’.
SEC. 4. REAUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 119(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act (as redesignated by section 3 of this Act) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘1991 through
2001’’ and inserting ‘‘2000 through 2003’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘not to exceed
$3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1991 through
2001’’ and inserting ‘‘not to exceed $80,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2000 through 2003’’.
Union Calendar No. 327
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3313
[Report No. 106–597]
A BILL
To amend section 119 of the Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act to reauthorize the program for
Long Island Sound, and for other purposes.
MAY 2, 2000
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union,
and ordered to be printed