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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3668 
To require recipients of assistance for certain water infrastructure projects 
to provide job training, apprenticeships, and other employment opportuni-
ties for low-income persons and very low-income persons, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 1, 2021 
Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require recipients of assistance for certain water infra-
structure projects to provide job training, apprentice-
ships, and other employment opportunities for low-in-
come persons and very low-income persons, 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 ‘‘Ensuring Water In-
vestments Benefit Communities Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds that— 
(1) Federal water infrastructure investments 
provide State and local governments and other re-
cipients of Federal financial assistance with substan-
tial support for activities that produce significant 
employment and other economic opportunities; 
(2) low-income persons and very low-income 
persons, who live in the areas in most need of such 
investments, often have restricted access to employ-
ment and other economic opportunities; 
(3) the employment and other economic oppor-
tunities generated by projects and activities that re-
ceive Federal water infrastructure investments offer 
an effective means of empowering low-income per-
sons and very low-income persons, particularly those 
who live in the areas where these funds are being 
used to improve water infrastructure; and 
(4) Federal efforts to invest in water infrastruc-
ture should also help create employment and other 
economic opportunities for low-income persons and 
very low-income persons in areas where these 
projects are taking place. 
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SEC. 3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AT WATER INFRA-
STRUCTURE PROJECTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency shall require a covered enti-
ty, to the greatest extent feasible, and consistent with ex-
isting Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, to 
provide job training, apprenticeships, and other employ-
ment opportunities on a covered project for low-income 
persons and very low-income persons in the area in which 
the covered project is located, and to business concerns 
that provide employment opportunities to low-income per-
sons and very low-income persons. 
(b) PRIORITY.—In carrying out subsection (a), the 
Administrator shall require a covered entity to provide job 
training, apprenticeships, and other employment opportu-
nities in the following order of priority: 
(1) To low-income persons and very low-income 
persons residing within the service area of the cov-
ered project or the neighborhood in which the cov-
ered project is located. 
(2) To low-income persons and very low-income 
persons residing within the metropolitan area (or 
nonmetropolitan county) in which the covered assist-
ance is expended. 
(3) To residents of an area described in para-
graph (1) or (2) who are provided any assistance 
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