I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5628 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to modify certain 
allotments under that Act, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 16, 2020 
Mr. WALTZ (for himself and Mr. BROWN of Maryland) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to modify 
certain allotments under that 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 ‘‘Clean Water Allotment 
Modernization Act’’. 
SEC. 2. MODIFICATIONS TO ALLOTMENTS UNDER FEDERAL 
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT. 
Section 205 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1285) is amended— 
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(1) by striking the section designation and 
heading and all that follows through the end of sub-
section (a) and inserting the following: 
‘‘SEC. 205. ALLOTMENTS. 
‘‘(a) FISCAL YEARS 2021 AND THEREAFTER.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For fiscal year 2021 and 
each fiscal year thereafter, of the amounts made 
available for the fiscal year, the Administrator shall 
make allotments to States and territories and pos-
sessions of the United States in accordance with this 
subsection. 
‘‘(2) FISCAL YEARS 2021 AND 2022.— 
‘‘(A) CERTAIN TERRITORIES AND POSSES-
SIONS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this section, subject to subparagraph (C), for 
each of fiscal years 2021 and 2022, of the 
amounts made available for the fiscal year, the 
Administrator shall initially provide under this 
subsection to each territory or possession of the 
United States (other than the Commonwealth 
of Puerto Rico) an allotment of not less than 
the allotment described in the following table: 
‘‘Territory or possession 
Allotment 
American Samoa .............................................................................
0.004063
Guam ..............................................................................................
0.006328
Northern Mariana Islands ..............................................................
0.002250
Virgin Islands .................................................................................
0.002358. 
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‘‘(B) STATES, DISTRICT
OF
COLUMBIA, 
AND PUERTO RICO.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of this section, subject to subpara-
graph (C), for each of fiscal years 2021 and 
2022, of the amounts made available for the 
fiscal year remaining after the allotments under 
subparagraph (A) are provided, each State, the 
District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico shall receive an allotment under 
this subsection of not less than the allotment 
described in the following table: 
‘‘State 
Allotment 
Alabama ..........................................................................................
0.010697
Alaska .............................................................................................
0.005000
Arizona ............................................................................................
0.016651
Arkansas .........................................................................................
0.005000
California ........................................................................................
0.085481
Colorado ..........................................................................................
0.013329
Connecticut .....................................................................................
0.011613
Delaware .........................................................................................
0.005000
District of Columbia .......................................................................
0.005001
Florida ............................................................................................
0.091324
Georgia ............................................................................................
0.013990
Hawaii .............................................................................................
0.005897
Idaho ...............................................................................................
0.006140
Illinois .............................................................................................
0.034437
Indiana ............................................................................................
0.019873
Iowa ................................................................................................
0.010305
Kansas ............................................................................................
0.010519
Kentucky .........................................................................................
0.014435
Louisiana ........................................................................................
0.033232
Maine ..............................................................................................
0.005894
Maryland .........................................................................................
0.029054
Massachusetts .................................................................................
0.025852
Michigan .........................................................................................
0.039307
Minnesota .......................................................................................
0.017899
Mississippi .......................................................................................
0.006992
Missouri ..........................................................................................
0.022532
Montana ..........................................................................................
0.005000
Nebraska .........................................................................................
0.006313
Nevada ............................................................................................
0.008674
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total funding remains below 95 percent of 
that fiscal year 2019 funding level; or 
‘‘(ii) 5 percent below the amount pro-
vided to the State or territory or posses-
sion of the United States under this sec-
tion for fiscal year 2019, if the total 
amount of funding under this section re-
mains at or above 95 percent of that fiscal 
year 2019 funding level. 
‘‘(3) ALLOTMENT UPDATES.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Administrator 
shall update the tables contained in paragraph 
(2) through application of the formula devel-
oped pursuant to subparagraph (B)— 
‘‘(i) by not later than September 30, 
2022, to ensure updated allotments are in 
effect for fiscal year 2023; and 
‘‘(ii) thereafter, by not later than 1 
year after the date of submission of any 
new clean watersheds needs survey and as-
sociated data under section 516(b)(1)(B). 
‘‘(B) FORMULA.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator 
shall develop, by regulation, a formula for 
the calculation of allotments to States and 
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territories and possessions of the United 
States under this section, in accordance 
with clauses (ii) and (iii). 
‘‘(ii) REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(I) BASES.—The formula under 
clause (i) shall be developed based 
on— 
‘‘(aa) the State needs identi-
fied in the most recently available 
clean watersheds needs survey 
prepared by the Administrator 
under section 516(b)(1)(B); 
‘‘(bb) the State population 
results of the most recent decen-
nial census; and 
‘‘(cc) 
the 
most 
recently 
available water quality impair-
ment component ratio published 
by the Administrator for pur-
poses of this Act. 
‘‘(II) WEIGHT.—In developing 
the formula under clause (i), the Ad-
ministrator shall give— 
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‘‘(aa) 50 percent weight to 
the survey referred to in sub-
clause (I)(aa); 
‘‘(bb) 30 percent weight to 
the census referred to in sub-
clause (I)(bb); and 
‘‘(cc) 20 percent weight to 
the ratio referred to in subclause 
(I)(cc). 
‘‘(iii) LIMITATION.—Notwithstanding 
clause (ii), in developing the formula under 
this subparagraph, the Administrator may 
not increase the allotment to any State or 
territory or possession of the United States 
by more than 200 percent, or decrease the 
allotment to the State, territory, or posses-
sion by more than 25 percent, as compared 
to the allotment level established for the 
State or territory or possession of the 
United States under the previous for-
mula.’’; 
(2) in subsection (g)(1), by striking ‘‘shall not 
exceed 4 per centum. or $400,000 whichever amount 
is the greater’’ and inserting ‘‘shall not exceed the 
greater of 4 percent and $400,000’’; and 
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(3) in subsection (m)(1), by striking ‘‘for this 
fiscal year.’’ and inserting ‘‘for that fiscal year.’’. 
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