Title: Stop Sewage Overflow Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Stop Sewage Overflow Act
This bill extends through FY2030 and revises a grant program that addresses stormwater and sewer overflows into rivers or other water bodies. Under the existing program, the Environmental Protection Agency awards grants to states, which in turn provide subgrants for projects that address the infrastructure needs for municipal combined sewer overflows, sanitary sewer overflows, and stormwater management.
The bill reduces the share of the cost of grant projects that financially distressed communities must pay, increases the minimum allocation for green infrastructure and other environmentally innovative activities, and prioritizes grant assistance for municipalities with high levels of sewage in rivers, lakes, and bays.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1660 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1660

 To make certain municipalities eligible for grants under the Federal 
          Water Pollution Control Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2021

Mrs. Trahan (for herself, Mr. LaHood, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Pappas, and Ms. 
   Kuster) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To make certain municipalities eligible for grants under the Federal 
          Water Pollution Control Act, 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 ``Stop Sewage Overflow Act''.

SEC. 2. SEWER OVERFLOW AND STORMWATER REUSE MUNICIPAL GRANTS.

    Section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1301) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ``or'';
                    (B) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) is a municipality with high levels of sewage in the 
        rivers, lakes, and bays of such municipality.'';
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) by striking ``The Federal share'' and inserting 
                the following:
            ``(1) Federal share.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Except as provided in 
                subparagraph (B), the Federal share''; and
                    (B) by striking ``The non-Federal share'' and 
                inserting the following:
                    ``(B) Financially distressed communities.--The 
                Federal share of the cost of activities carried out 
                using amounts from a grant made to a financially 
                distressed community under subsection (a) shall be not 
                less than 75 percent of the cost.
            ``(2) Non-federal share.--The non-Federal share''; and
            (3) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by striking ``$225,000,000'' and 
                        inserting ``$500,000,000''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``2020'' and inserting 
                        ``2030''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2) by striking ``20 percent'' and 
                inserting ``25 percent''.
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