To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to waive matching requirements for certain grants to the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-3061
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2021-05-07
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: District of Columbia

Solid waste and recycling

State and local finance

Water quality
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill makes the District of Columbia eligible to receive grants under the Clean Water Act for all of the costs for constructing treatment works (e.g., systems used to store or treat sewage or industrial wastes). Thus, the bill waives the requirement for the District to match federal grant funds.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3061 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 7, 2021 Ms. Norton 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 waive matching requirements for certain grants to the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

1. Waiver of matching requirement for grants to District of Columbia Section 202(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1282(a) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, in the case of a project for a treatment works in the District of Columbia, such a project shall be eligible for grants at 100 percent of the cost of construction thereof. .