I
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2720
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropria-
tions for State water pollution control revolving funds, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 5, 1999
Mrs. KELLY (for herself and Mrs. TAUSCHER) 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 au-
thorize appropriations for State water pollution control
revolving funds, 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; AMENDMENT OF FEDERAL
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Clean Water Infrastructure Financing Act of 1999’’.
(b) AMENDMENT OF FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION
CONTROL ACT.—Except as otherwise expressly provided,
whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed
in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or
other provision, the reference shall be considered to be
made to a section or other provision of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251–1387).
SEC. 
2. 
GENERAL 
AUTHORITY 
FOR 
CAPITALIZATION
GRANTS.
Section 601(a) (33 U.S.C. 1381(a)) is amended by
striking ‘‘(1) for construction’’ and all that follows
through the period and inserting ‘‘to accomplish the pur-
poses of this Act.’’.
SEC. 3. CAPITALIZATION GRANTS AGREEMENTS.
(a) REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF TREAT-
MENT
WORKS.—Section 
602(b)(6) 
(33 
U.S.C.
1382(b)(6)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘before fiscal year 1995’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘201(b)’’ and all that follows
through ‘‘218’’ and inserting ‘‘211’’.
(b) GUIDANCE FOR SMALL SYSTEMS.—Section 602
(33 U.S.C. 1382) is amended by adding at the end the
following new subsection:
‘‘(c) GUIDANCE FOR SMALL SYSTEMS.—
‘‘(1) SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURES.—Not later than
1 year after the date of the enactment of this sub-
section, the Administrator shall assist the States in
establishing simplified procedures for small systems
to obtain assistance under this title.
‘‘(2) PUBLICATION
OF
MANUAL.—Not later
than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this
subsection, and after providing notice and oppor-
tunity for public comment, the Administrator shall
publish a manual to assist small systems in obtain-
ing assistance under this title and publish in the
Federal Register notice of the availability of the
manual.
‘‘(3) SMALL SYSTEM DEFINED.—For purposes
of this title, the term ‘small system’ means a system
for which a municipality or intermunicipal, inter-
state, or State agency seeks assistance under this
title and which serves a population of 20,000 or
less.’’.
SEC. 4. WATER POLLUTION CONTROL REVOLVING FUNDS.
(a) ACTIVITIES ELIGIBLE FOR ASSISTANCE.—Sec-
tion 603(c) (33 U.S.C. 1383(c)) is amended to read as
follows:
‘‘(c) ACTIVITIES ELIGIBLE FOR ASSISTANCE.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The amounts of funds
available to each State water pollution control re-
volving fund shall be used only for providing finan-
cial assistance to activities which have as a principal
benefit the improvement or protection of water qual-
ity of navigable waters to a municipality, intermunic-
ipal agency, interstate agency, State agency, or
other person. Such activities may include the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(A) Construction of a publicly owned
treatment works.
‘‘(B) Implementation of lake protection
programs and projects under section 314.
‘‘(C) Implementation of a management
program under section 319.
‘‘(D) Implementation of a conservation and
management plan under section 320.
‘‘(E) Restoration or protection of publicly
or privately owned riparian areas, including ac-
quisition of property rights.
‘‘(F) Implementation of measures to im-
prove the efficiency of public water use.
‘‘(G) Development and implementation of
plans by a public recipient to prevent water pol-
lution.
‘‘(H) Acquisition of lands necessary to
meet any mitigation requirements related to
construction of a publicly owned treatment
works.