Title: Water Reuse and Resiliency Act of 2021
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Water Reuse and Resiliency Act of 2021
This bill reauthorizes through FY2026 and revises a pilot program of the Environmental Protection Agency for alternative water source projects. The program, which was established under the Clean Water Act, provides grants to states, local agencies, private utilities, and nonprofit entities for alternative water source projects to meet critical water supply needs.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2454 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2454

  To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the 
  pilot program for alternative water source projects, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 22, 2021

 Mr. Padilla (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mr. Ossoff) 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 amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the 
  pilot program for alternative water source projects, 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 ``Water Reuse and Resiliency Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM FOR ALTERNATIVE WATER SOURCE PROJECTS.

    Section 220 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1300) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), in the heading, by striking ``In 
        General'' and inserting ``Establishment'';
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``construction'' 
                before ``funds'';
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2); and
                    (C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph 
                (2);
            (3) by striking subsection (e);
            (4) in subsection (i)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
                striking ``, the following definitions apply''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (1), in the first sentence, by 
                striking ``water or wastewater or by treating 
                wastewater'' and inserting ``water, wastewater, or 
                stormwater or by treating wastewater or stormwater for 
                groundwater recharge, potable reuse, or other 
                purposes'';
            (5) in subsection (j)--
                    (A) in the first sentence, by striking ``There is'' 
                and inserting the following:
            ``(1) In general.--There is'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1) (as so designated), by 
                striking ``a total of $75,000,000 for fiscal years 2002 
                through 2004. Such sums shall'' and inserting 
                ``$200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 
                2026, to''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Limitation on use of funds.--Of the amounts made 
        available for grants under paragraph (1), not more than 2 
        percent may be used to pay the administrative costs of the 
        Administrator.''; and
            (6) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), (d), (i), and 
        (j) as subsections (c), (d), (e), (b), and (i), respectively, 
        and moving those subsections so as to appear in alphabetical 
        order.
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