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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3957
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reserve a portion
of the funds made available for capitalization grants for water pollution
control revolving funds for the purpose of making grants to States
that set aside amounts of State funds for water pollution control in
excess of the amounts required under such Act, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 3, 1994
Mr. PETRI (for himself, Mr. OBEY, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. ROTH, Mr.
GUNDERSON, Mr. KLECZKA, Mr. KLUG, Mr. BARRETT of Wisconsin, and
Mr. BARCA of Wisconsin) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Public Works and Transportation
A BILL
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reserve
a portion of the funds made available for capitalization
grants for water pollution control revolving funds for
the purpose of making grants to States that set aside
amounts of State funds for water pollution control in
excess of the amounts required under such Act, 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 ‘‘Level of Effort Clean
Water Bonus Fund Act of 1994’’.
SEC. 2. LEVEL OF EFFORT CAPITALIZATION GRANTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 604 of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1384) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Sums’’ and
inserting ‘‘Subject to subsection (d), sums’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(d) LEVEL OF EFFORT CAPITALIZATION GRANTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For each fiscal year, the
Administrator shall reserve 20 percent of the funds
made available for capitalization grants under this
title for making level of effort capitalization grants
to eligible States in accordance with this subsection.
A State that receives a grant under this subsection
shall deposit an amount equal to the amount of the
grant into the water pollution control revolving fund
of the State established under this title.
‘‘(2) ELIGIBILITY.—A State shall be eligible to
receive a grant under this subsection if the State—
‘‘(A) submits an application for the grant
to the Administrator in such form and at such
time as the Administrator shall require; and
‘‘(B) for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal
year for which the application is submitted, de-
posits—
‘‘(i) an amount of State funds in addi-
tion to the amount required under section
602(b)(2) into the water pollution control
revolving fund of the State established
under this title;
‘‘(ii) an amount of State funds into a
non-Federal revolving fund or grant pro-
gram that the Administrator determines is
subject to requirements that are substan-
tially similar to the requirements of the
fund referred to in clause (i); or
‘‘(iii) both an amount as described in
clause (i) and an amount as described in
clause (ii).
‘‘(3) AMOUNT OF GRANTS.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-
graph (B), a grant to a State under this sub-
section shall be in an amount equal to the total
amounts deposited as described in paragraph
(2)(B).
‘‘(B) LIMITATIONS.—
‘‘(i) STATE MAXIMUM.—For each fis-
cal year, no State may receive a grant
under this subsection in an amount that is
greater than 20 percent of the amount of
funds reserved under paragraph (1).
‘‘(ii) INSUFFICIENT
FUNDS.—If, for
any fiscal year, the sum of the grant
amounts calculated under subparagraph
(A) for all eligible States is greater than
the amount of funds reserved under para-
graph (1), the Administrator shall make a
grant to each eligible State in an amount
that is equal to the product obtained by
multiplying—
‘‘(I) the amount of funds re-
served under paragraph (1); by
‘‘(II) the quotient obtained by di-
viding—
‘‘(aa) the grant amount cal-
culated under subparagraph (A)
for the State; by
‘‘(bb) the sum of the grant
amounts calculated under sub-
paragraph (A) for all eligible
States.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 602(b) of
such Act (33 U.S.C. 1382(b)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘except with
respect to grants made to the State under section
604(d),’’ before ‘‘the State will deposit’’; and
(2) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘, except that
with respect to grants made to the State under sec-
tion 604(d), the State will enter into binding com-
mitments to provide the assistance in an amount
equal to 100 percent of the amount of each grant
payment’’ before the semicolon at the end.
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