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Calendar No. 539
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3313
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MAY 10, 2000
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar
AN ACT
To amend section 119 of the Federal Water Pollution Con-
trol Act to reauthorize the program for Long Island
Sound, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Long Island Sound
Restoration Act’’.
SEC. 2. NITROGEN CREDIT TRADING SYSTEM AND OTHER
MEASURES.
Section 119(c)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1269(c)(1)) is amended by insert-
ing ‘‘, including efforts to establish, within the process for
granting watershed general permits, a system for trading
nitrogen credits and any other measures that are cost-ef-
fective and consistent with the goals of the Plan’’ before
the semicolon at the end.
SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE FOR DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES.
Section 119 of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act (33 U.S.C. 1269) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-
section (f); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(e) ASSISTANCE TO DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES.—
‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE COMMUNITIES.—
‘‘(A) STATES TO DETERMINE CRITERIA.—
For the purposes of this subsection, a dis-
tressed community is any community that
meets affordability criteria established by the
State in which the community is located, if such
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criteria are developed after public review and
comment.
‘‘(B) CONSIDERATION
OF
IMPACT
ON
WATER AND SEWER RATES.—In determining if
a community is a distressed community for the
purposes of this subsection, the State shall con-
sider the extent to which the rate of growth of
a community’s tax base has been historically
slow such that implementing the plan described
in subsection (c)(1) would result in a significant
increase in any water or sewer rate charged by
the community’s publicly-owned wastewater
treatment facility.
‘‘(C) INFORMATION TO ASSIST STATES.—
The Administrator may publish information to
assist States in establishing affordability cri-
teria under subparagraph (A).
‘‘(2) REVOLVING LOAN FUNDS.—
‘‘(A) LOAN
SUBSIDIES.—Subject to sub-
paragraph (B), any State making a loan to a
distressed community from a revolving fund
under title VI for the purpose of assisting the
implementation of the plan described in sub-
section (c)(1) may provide additional subsidiza-
tion (including forgiveness of principal).
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‘‘(B) TOTAL AMOUNT OF SUBSIDIES.—For
each fiscal year, the total amount of loan sub-
sidies made by a State under subparagraph (A)
may not exceed 30 percent of the amount of the
capitalization grant received by the State for
the year.
‘‘(3) PRIORITY.—In making assistance available
under this section for the upgrading of wastewater
treatment facilities, a State may give priority to a
distressed community.’’.
SEC. 4. REAUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 119(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Con-
trol Act (as redesignated by section 3 of this Act) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘1991
through 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘2000 through 2003’’;
and
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘not to exceed
$3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1991 through
2001’’ and inserting ‘‘not to exceed $80,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2000 through 2003’’.
Passed the House of Representatives May 9, 2000.
Attest:
JEFF TRANDAHL,
Clerk.
Calendar No. 539
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3313
AN ACT
To amend section 119 of the Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act to reauthorize the program for
Long Island Sound, and for other purposes.
MAY 10, 2000
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar