Affordable Clean Water Infrastructure Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6464 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6464

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide additional 
    financial assistance to rural, small, and tribal publicly owned 
                treatment works, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 4, 2025

 Ms. McDonald Rivet (for herself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Bresnahan, Mr. 
Wied, and Mrs. Sykes) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
         to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide additional 
    financial assistance to rural, small, and tribal publicly owned 
                treatment works, 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 Clean Water 
Infrastructure Act''.

SEC. 2. WATER POLLUTION CONTROL REVOLVING LOAN FUNDS.

    Section 603(i) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1383(i)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(A)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking 
                ``in assistance'';
                    (B) in clause (i), by inserting ``, either as a 
                whole or within the geographic area served by the 
                project for which the eligible recipient seeks 
                additional subsidization'' before the semicolon; and
                    (C) in clause (ii)(III), by striking ``to such 
                ratepayers'' and inserting ``to help such ratepayers 
                afford wastewater (including stormwater) services''; 
                and
            (2) by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following:
            ``(3) Subsidization amounts.--
                    ``(A) In general.--A State may use for providing 
                additional subsidization in a fiscal year under this 
                subsection an amount that does not exceed the greater 
                of--
                            ``(i) 50 percent of the total amount 
                        received by the State in capitalization grants 
                        under this title for the fiscal year; or
                            ``(ii) the annual average over the previous 
                        10 fiscal years of the amounts deposited by the 
                        State in the State water pollution control 
                        revolving fund from State moneys that exceed 
                        the amounts required to be so deposited under 
                        section 602(b)(2).
                    ``(B) Additional community assistance.--For each 
                fiscal year, of the amount of the capitalization grant 
                received by the State under this title, an additional 
                10 percent may be made available by the State to 
                provide additional subsidization under this subsection 
                to rural, small, and tribal publicly owned treatment 
                works in the State.
                    ``(C) Minimum.--To the extent there are sufficient 
                applications for additional subsidization under this 
                subsection that meet the criteria under paragraph 
                (1)(A), a State shall use for providing additional 
                subsidization in a fiscal year under this subsection an 
                amount that is not less than 20 percent of the total 
                amount received by the State in capitalization grants 
                under this title for the fiscal year.
            ``(4) Exclusion.--A loan from the water pollution control 
        revolving fund of a State with an interest rate equal to or 
        greater than 0 percent shall not be considered additional 
        subsidization for the purposes of this subsection.''.
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