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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1033
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a grant
program for construction of publicly owned treatment works in economi-
cally distressed rural communities.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 23, 1993
Mr. HAYES introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Public Works and Transportation
A BILL
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to estab-
lish a grant program for construction of publicly owned
treatment works in economically distressed rural commu-
nities.
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 ‘‘Rural Community
Clean Water Assistance Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CON-
TROL ACT.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C.
1251–1387) is amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing:
‘‘TITLE 
VII—CONSTRUCTION
GRANT 
PROGRAM 
FOR
TREATMENT 
WORKS 
IN
RURAL COMMUNITIES
‘‘SEC. 701. GRANTS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator is authorized
to 
make 
grants 
to 
any 
State, 
municipality, 
or
intermunicipal or interstate agency for the construction of
publicly owned treatment works located in economically
distressed rural communities and for any purpose for
which a grant may be made under sections 319(h) and
319(i) of this Act (including innovative and alternative ap-
proaches for the control of nonpoint sources of pollution).
‘‘(b) APPLICATION.—Any State, municipality, or
agency referred to in subsection (a) interested in receiving
a grant under this title shall submit to the Administrator
an application for such grant. Such application shall be
in such form and contain such information as the Admin-
istrator may require by regulation.
‘‘(c) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—Grants made under
this title shall be subject to such terms and conditions as
the Administrator may require by regulation to carry out
the objectives of this title.
‘‘SEC. 702. FEDERAL SHARE.
‘‘The Federal share of any grant made under this
title shall be 90 percent of the cost of construction. The
non-Federal share of such costs shall be provided from
non-Federal sources of funding.
‘‘SEC. 703. ALLOTMENT.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Sums authorized to be appro-
priated for a fiscal year pursuant to section 704 shall be
allotted among the States for such fiscal year by the Ad-
ministrator not later than the 10th day which begins after
the date of the enactment of this title in the ratio which
the population in economically distressed rural commu-
nities of each State bears to the total population in eco-
nomically distressed rural communities of all the States.
‘‘(b) PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY; REALLOTMENT.—
Sums allotted to the States for a fiscal year shall remain
available for obligation for the fiscal year for which au-
thorized and for the period of the next succeeding 12
months. The amount of any allotment not obligated by the
end of such 24-month period shall be immediately reallot-
ted by the Administrator on the basis of the same ratio
as applicable to sums allotted for the then current fiscal
year, except that none of the funds reallotted by the Ad-
ministrator for a fiscal year shall be allotted to any State
which failed to obligate any of the funds being reallotted.
Any sum made available to a State by reallotment under
this subsection shall be in addition to any funds otherwise
allotted to such State for grants under this title during
any fiscal year.
‘‘SEC. 704. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
‘‘There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out
this title $300,000,000 per fiscal year for fiscal years
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. Such sums
shall remain available until expended.
‘‘SEC. 705. DEFINITIONS.
‘‘In this title, the following definitions apply:
‘‘(1) CONSTRUCTION.—The term ‘construction’
has the meaning such term has in section 212.
‘‘(2) ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED RURAL COM-
MUNITY.—The term ‘economically distressed rural
community’ means a rural community in which the
median household income of the residents of such
community is less than 75 percent of the national
median household income, as determined by the lat-
est decennial census of the United States.
‘‘(3) RURAL
COMMUNITY.—The term ‘rural
community’ means a political subdivision of a State
with a population of less than 20,000, as determined
by the latest decennial census of the United States.
‘‘(4) TREATMENT
WORKS.—The term ‘treat-
ment works’ has the meaning such term has in sec-
tion 212.’’.
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