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Affordable Clean Water Infrastructure Act
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.
Summary
This bill amends federal water pollution control law to increase financial assistance for rural, small, and tribal water treatment facilities. States would be allowed to use a larger portion of their federal water infrastructure grants to provide subsidies (rather than loans) to help these communities afford wastewater and stormwater services. States would be required to dedicate at least 20 percent of their federal grants to this assistance, with an additional 10 percent available specifically for rural, small, and tribal facilities. The bill limits states to using up to 50 percent of their annual grants (or their 10-year average state contributions, whichever is greater) for this subsidization purpose.
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Sponsor (1)
4 cosponsors
Actions (3)
- Feb 2, 2026 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. · house
- Dec 4, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. · house
- Dec 4, 2025 Introduced in House
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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
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.”. <all>
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