Title: A bill to permit States to transfer certain funds from the clean water revolving fund of a State to the drinking water revolving fund of the State in certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
This bill allows—for one year—states to transfer amounts from their clean water state revolving fund to their drinking water state revolving fund in order to address a threat to public health as a result of heightened exposure to lead in drinking water.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1689 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1689

    To permit States to transfer certain funds from the clean water 
 revolving fund of a State to the drinking water revolving fund of the 
        State in certain circumstances, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                 May 23 (legislative day, May 22), 2019

  Mr. Booker introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
    To permit States to transfer certain funds from the clean water 
 revolving fund of a State to the drinking water revolving fund of the 
        State in certain circumstances, 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. TRANSFER AUTHORITY.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
            (1) lead is a toxic chemical that--
                    (A) is particularly harmful to young children; and
                    (B) can cause reduced intelligence quotients, 
                attention disorders, and other serious health problems;
            (2) excessive and harmful levels of lead have been found in 
        water systems across all 50 States and those water systems 
        serve drinking water to millions of people in the United 
        States;
            (3) hundreds of the water systems described in paragraph 
        (2) are water systems that provide drinking water to schools or 
        day care centers;
            (4) not all States have sufficient funds in the drinking 
        water revolving fund of that State to address the threat to 
        public health from heightened exposure to lead in drinking 
        water; and
            (5) some States have available funds in the clean water 
        revolving fund of that State that could be used to provide 
        additional resources to help address lead in drinking water.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Clean water revolving fund.--The term ``clean water 
        revolving fund'' means 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.).
            (2) Drinking water revolving fund.--The term ``drinking 
        water revolving fund'' means a State drinking water treatment 
        revolving loan fund established under section 1452 of the Safe 
        Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12).
    (c) Authority.--In addition to the transfer authority in section 
302(a) of the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 (42 U.S.C. 
300j-12 note; Public Law 104-182), and notwithstanding section 1452(d) 
of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12(d)), during the 1-
year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, if a State, 
in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, determines that available funds in the clean water revolving 
fund of the State are necessary to address a threat to public health as 
a result of heightened exposure to lead in drinking water, the State 
may transfer an amount equal to not more than 5 percent of the 
cumulative clean water revolving fund Federal grant dollars to the 
State to the drinking water revolving fund of the State. Funds 
transferred pursuant to this subsection shall be used by the State to 
provide additional subsidy to eligible recipients in the form of 
forgiveness of principal, negative interest loans, or grants (or any 
combination of these).
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