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to the health of individuals receiving such service. For pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘‘home energy service’’ 
means a service to provide home energy, as such term is 
defined in section 2603 of the Low-Income Home Energy 
Assistance Act of 1981, or service provided by an electric 
utility, as such term is defined in section 3 of the Public 
Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, and the term 
‘‘public water system’’ has the meaning given that term 
in section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act. Nothing 
in this section shall be construed to require forgiveness 
of any debt incurred or owed to an entity or to absolve 
an individual of any obligation to an entity for service, 
nor to preempt any State or local law or regulation gov-
erning entities that provide such services to residential 
customers. 
SEC. 190702. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GRANT PROGRAMS. 
(a) ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GRANTS.—The Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall 
continue to carry out— 
(1) the Environmental Justice Small Grants 
Program and the Environmental Justice Collabo-
rative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Pro-
gram, as those programs are in existence on the date 
of enactment of this Act; and
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(2) the Community Action for a Renewed Envi-
ronment grant programs I and II, as in existence on 
January 1, 2012. 
(b) USE OF FUNDS FOR GRANTS IN RESPONSE TO 
COVID–19 PANDEMIC.—With respect to amounts appro-
priated by division A of this Act that are available to carry 
out the programs described in subsection (a), the Adminis-
trator of the Environmental Protection Agency may only 
award grants under such programs for projects that will 
investigate or address the disproportionate impacts of the 
COVID–19 pandemic in environmental justice commu-
nities. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out the programs 
described in subsection (a) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 
2020, and such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal 
year thereafter. 
(d) DISTRIBUTION.—Not later than 30 days after 
amounts are made available pursuant to subsection (c), 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agen-
cy shall make awards of grants under each of the pro-
grams described in subsection (a).
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SEC. 190703. LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLD DRINKING WATER 
AND WASTEWATER ASSISTANCE. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $1,500,000,000 to the Sec-
retary to carry out this section. 
(b) LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLD DRINKING WATER 
AND WASTEWATER ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary shall 
make grants to States and Indian Tribes to assist low- 
income households, particularly those with the lowest in-
comes, that pay a high proportion of household income 
for drinking water and wastewater services, by providing 
funds to owners or operators of public water systems or 
treatment works to reduce rates charged to such house-
holds for such services. 
(c) NONDUPLICATION OF EFFORT.—In carrying out 
this section, the Secretary, States, and Indian Tribes, as 
applicable, shall, as appropriate and to the extent prac-
ticable, use existing processes, procedures, policies, and 
systems in place to provide assistance to low-income 
households, including by using existing application and ap-
proval processes. 
(d) ALLOTMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the Secretary shall allot amounts appro-
priated pursuant to this section to a State or Indian 
Tribe based on the following:
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(A) The percentage of households in the 
State, or under the jurisdiction of the Indian 
Tribe, with income equal to or less than 150 
percent of the Federal poverty line. 
(B) The percentage of such households in 
the State, or under the jurisdiction of the In-
dian Tribe, that spend more than 30 percent of 
monthly income on housing. 
(C) The extent to which the State or In-
dian Tribe has been affected by the public 
health emergency, including the rate of trans-
mission of COVID–19 in the State or area over 
which the Indian Tribe has jurisdiction, the 
number of COVID–19 cases compared to the 
national average, and economic disruptions re-
sulting from the public health emergency. 
(2) RESERVED FUNDS.—The Secretary shall re-
serve not more than 10 percent of the amounts ap-
propriated pursuant to this section for allotment to 
States and Indian Tribes based on the economic dis-
ruptions to the States and Indian Tribes resulting 
from the emergency described in the emergency dec-
laration issued by the President on March 13, 2020, 
pursuant to section 501(b) of the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
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U.S.C. 5191(b)), during the period covered by such 
emergency declaration and any subsequent major 
disaster declaration under section 401 of such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5170) that supersedes such emergency 
declaration. 
(e) DETERMINATION
OF
LOW-INCOME
HOUSE-
HOLDS.— 
(1) MINIMUM DEFINITION OF LOW-INCOME.—In 
determining whether a household is considered low- 
income for the purposes of this section, a State or 
Indian Tribe— 
(A) shall ensure that, at a minimum— 
(i) all households with income equal to 
or less than 150 percent of the Federal 
poverty line are included as low-income 
households; and 
(ii) all households with income equal 
to or less than 60 percent of the State me-
dian income are included as low-income 
households; 
(B) may include households that have been 
adversely economically affected by job loss or 
severe income loss related to the public health 
emergency; and
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(C) may include other households, includ-
ing households in which 1 or more individuals 
are receiving— 
(i) assistance under the State pro-
gram funded under part A of title IV of 
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et 
seq.); 
(ii) supplemental security income pay-
ments under title XVI of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.); 
(iii) supplemental nutrition assistance 
program benefits under the Food and Nu-
trition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et 
seq.); or 
(iv) payments under section 1315, 
1521, 1541, or 1542 of title 38, United 
States Code, or under section 306 of the 
Veterans’ and Survivors’ Pension Improve-
ment Act of 1978. 
(2) HOUSEHOLD
DOCUMENTATION
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—States and Indian Tribes shall— 
(A) to the maximum extent practicable, 
seek to limit the income history documentation 
requirements for determining whether a house-