Title: Affordable Safe Drinking Water Act of 2019
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Affordable Safe Drinking Water Act of 2019
This bill revises the clean water state revolving fund (SRF) program and the drinking water SRF program. Both programs provide financial assistance for water infrastructure.
The bill removes the 30-year term limits for loans under the SRF programs. Thus, new loans under the programs may have terms up to the projected useful life of the projects. Loan terms for existing loans may, on agreement of the parties to the loan, be extended.
In addition, the bill allows states to use a percentage of SRF funds to replace pipes, plumbing fittings, and fixtures that carry water contaminated with lead or perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances (commonly referred to as PFAS) at certain state, municipal, or tribal facilities (e.g., schools, parks, and senior centers) that provide the public or employees with drinking water. PFAS are man-made and may have adverse human health effects.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5513 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5513

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Safe Drinking 
 Water Act to modify the payment periods of loans from State revolving 
            funds under those Acts, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 19, 2019

  Mr. Kennedy (for himself, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Lynch, Ms. 
 Clark of Massachusetts, Mrs. Trahan, Mr. Neal, Ms. Pressley, and Mr. 
   Keating) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
  Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Safe Drinking 
 Water Act to modify the payment periods of loans from State revolving 
            funds under those Acts, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Affordable Safe Drinking Water Act 
of 2019''.

SEC. 2. STATE REVOLVING FUNDS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
        Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
            (2) State revolving loan fund.--The term ``State revolving 
        loan fund'' means--
                    (A) a State water pollution control revolving fund 
                established under title VI of the Federal Water 
                Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.); and
                    (B) a State drinking water treatment revolving loan 
                fund established under section 1452 of the Safe 
                Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12).
    (b) Loan Terms.--
            (1) Federal water pollution control act.--Section 
        603(d)(1)(A) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
        U.S.C. 1383(d)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ``the lesser of 30 
        years and''.
            (2) Safe drinking water act.--Section 1452(f)(1) of the 
        Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12(f)(1)) is amended by 
        striking subparagraph (C) and inserting the following:
                    ``(C) each loan has a term that does not exceed the 
                projected useful life (as determined by the State) of 
                the project for which the loan was made;''.
    (c) Applicability to Existing Loans.--The term of a loan made from 
a State revolving loan fund before the date of enactment of this Act 
may, on agreement of the parties to the loan, be extended in accordance 
with the amendments made by subsection (b), as applicable.
    (d) Leaded Public Drinking Water Infrastructure.--Section 
1452(g)(2)(B) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-
12(g)(2)(B)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (iii), by striking ``; and'' and inserting a 
        semicolon;
            (2) in clause (iv), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(v) to replace pipes, plumbing fittings, 
                        and fixtures that carry water that is not free 
                        of lead or perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl 
                        substances at--
                                    ``(I) a public school;
                                    ``(II) a public park;
                                    ``(III) a fire station;
                                    ``(IV) a police station;
                                    ``(V) a senior center;
                                    ``(VI) a community center; or
                                    ``(VII) any other municipal-, 
                                Tribal-, or State-owned facility that 
                                provides the public or employees with 
                                drinking water.''.
    (e) Reports.--
            (1) State revolving loans.--Not later than 18 months after 
        the date of enactment of this Act, and each year thereafter, 
        the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report 
        describing--
                    (A) the terms of assistance from, recipients of 
                assistance from, and amounts within each State 
                revolving fund loan; and
                    (B) whether a State revolving fund loan has been 
                refinanced.
            (2) Lead and pfas remediation.--Not later than 18 months 
        after the date of enactment of this Act, and each year 
        thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report 
        describing each project carried out under clause (v) of section 
        1452(g)(2)(B) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-
        12(g)(2)(B)) during the previous year, including--
                    (A) a description of the project;
                    (B) the level of lead contamination or 
                contamination by perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl 
                substances, as applicable, of the drinking water at the 
                facility at which the project was carried out before 
                the project was carried out;
                    (C) the cost of the project; and
                    (D) an estimate of the number of people that used 
                the drinking water source that is the subject of the 
                project during the 1-year period ending on the date on 
                which the project began.
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