I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1189 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to assist municipalities 
that would experience a significant hardship raising the revenue necessary 
to finance projects and activities for the construction of wastewater 
treatment works, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 17, 2011 
Mr. LATTA (for himself, Mr. MCKINLEY, and Mr. LATOURETTE) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to assist 
municipalities that would experience a significant hard-
ship raising the revenue necessary to finance projects 
and activities for the construction of wastewater treat-
ment works, 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 Afford-
ability Act of 2011’’. 
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SEC. 2. CAPITALIZATION GRANT AGREEMENTS. 
Section 602(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Con-
trol Act (33 U.S.C. 1382(b)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 
(9); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (10) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(11) the State will use at least 15 percent of 
the amount of each capitalization grant received by 
the State under this title after September 30, 2012, 
to provide assistance to municipalities of fewer than 
10,000 individuals that meet the affordability cri-
teria established by the State under section 
603(i)(2) for activities included on the State’s pri-
ority list established under section 603(g), to the ex-
tent that there are sufficient applications for such 
assistance.’’. 
SEC. 3. WATER POLLUTION CONTROL REVOLVING LOAN 
FUNDS. 
(a) 
EXTENDED
REPAYMENT
PERIOD.—Section 
603(d)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1383(d)(1)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A) by striking ‘‘20 years’’ 
and inserting ‘‘the lesser of 30 years or the design 
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life of the project to be financed with the proceeds 
of the loan’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B) by striking ‘‘not later 
than 20 years after project completion’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘upon the expiration of the term of the loan’’. 
(b) ADDITIONAL SUBSIDIZATION.—Section 603 of 
such Act (33 U.S.C. 1383) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘(i) ADDITIONAL SUBSIDIZATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—In any case in which a 
State provides assistance to a municipality or inter-
municipal, interstate, or State agency under sub-
section (d), the State may provide additional sub-
sidization, including forgiveness of principal and 
negative interest loans to benefit a municipality 
that— 
‘‘(A) meets the State’s affordability criteria 
established under paragraph (2); or 
‘‘(B) does not meet the State’s afford-
ability criteria if the recipient— 
‘‘(i) seeks additional subsidization to 
benefit individual ratepayers in the resi-
dential user rate class; 
‘‘(ii) demonstrates to the State that 
such ratepayers will experience a signifi-
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