I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1647 
To establish a Water Infrastructure Trust Fund, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 21, 2017 
Mr. BLUMENAUER (for himself and Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 
Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish a Water Infrastructure Trust Fund, 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 ‘‘Water Infrastructure 
Trust Fund Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT AND FUNDING OF WATER INFRA-
STRUCTURE TRUST FUND. 
(a) WATER INFRASTRUCTURE TRUST FUND.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter A of chapter 98 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to 
establishment of trust funds) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 9512. WATER INFRASTRUCTURE TRUST FUND. 
‘‘(a) CREATION OF TRUST FUND.—There is estab-
lished in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund 
to be known as the ‘Water Infrastructure Trust Fund’, 
consisting of such amounts as may be appropriated or 
credited to such fund as provided in this section or section 
9602(b). 
‘‘(b) TRANSFERS TO TRUST FUND.—There are here-
by appropriated to the Water Infrastructure Trust Fund 
amounts equivalent to the fees received in the Treasury 
before January 1, 2023, under section 2(b) of the Water 
Infrastructure Trust Fund Act of 2017. 
‘‘(c) EXPENDITURES.—Except as provided by sub-
section (d), amounts in the Water Infrastructure Trust 
Fund shall be available, without further appropriation, as 
follows: 
‘‘(1) 50 percent of the amounts shall be avail-
able to the Administrator of the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency for making capitalization grants 
under section 601 of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1377). 
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‘‘(2) 50 percent of the amounts shall be avail-
able to the Administrator for making capitalization 
grants under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12). 
‘‘(d) LIMITATION ON EXPENDITURES.—Amounts in 
the Water Infrastructure Trust Fund may not be made 
available for a fiscal year unless the funds appropriated 
to the Clean Water State Revolving Fund through annual 
capitalization grants is not less than the average of the 
annual amounts provided in capitalization grants under 
section 601 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1381) for the 5-fiscal-year period immediately 
preceding such fiscal year.’’. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions for subchapter A of chapter 98 of such Code 
is amended by adding at the end the following new 
item: 
‘‘Sec. 9512. Water Infrastructure Trust Fund.’’. 
(b) VOLUNTARY LABELING SYSTEM.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treas-
ury, in consultation with the Administrator of the 
Food and Drug Administration, manufacturers, pro-
ducers, and importers, shall develop and implement 
a program under which the Secretary provides a 
label designed in consultation with manufacturers, 
producers, and importers suitable for placement on 
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