[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1701 Introduced in House (IH)]
103d CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1701
To amend title XVI of the Public Health Service Act (the Safe Drinking
Water Act) to establish State revolving funds to provide for drinking
water treatment facilities, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 5, 1993
Mr. Waxman (for himself and Mr. Dingell) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
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A BILL
To amend title XVI of the Public Health Service Act (the Safe Drinking
Water Act) to establish State revolving funds to provide for drinking
water treatment facilities, 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. STATE REVOLVING FUNDS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER
Section 1443 of title XIV of the Public Health Service Act (the
Safe Drinking Water Act) is amended by redesignating subsection (c) as
(d) and by adding the following new subsection after subsection (b):
``(c) State Revolving Funds.--
``(1) General Authority.--(A) The Administrator shall enter
into agreements with States having primary enforcement
responsibility for public water systems to make capitalization
grants to the States under this subsection, further the health
protection objectives of this Act. The grants shall be allotted
to the States in accordance with this section and deposited in
drinking water treatment revolving funds established by the
State.
``(B) Amounts deposited in such revolving funds, including
loan repayments and interest earned on such amounts, shall be
used only for providing loans or other financial assistance of
any kind or nature that the State deems appropriate to public
water systems operated by a governmental or inter-governmental
agency, a non-profit organization, an Indian tribe, or any
combination thereof. Such financial assistance may be used only
for capital expenditures incurred by any such system of a type
or category which the Administrator has determined will
facilitate compliance with national primary drinking water
regulations applicable to such system under section 1411.
``(C) Each such revolving fund shall be established,
maintained, and credited with repayments and interest. The fund
balance shall be available in perpetuity for providing
financial assistance under this section. Only interest
collected in such fund shall be used by the States for grants
to such systems for such expenditures. To the extent amounts in
each such fund are not required for current obligation or
expenditure such amounts shall be invested in interest bearing
obligations of the State or of the United States.
``(2) Specific Requirements.--The Administrator shall enter
into an agreement under this section with a State only after
the State has established to the satisfaction of the
Administrator that--
``(A) the State will deposit all capitalization
grants received from the Administrator under this
subsection, together with all repayments and interest
on such grants, in a drinking water treatment revolving
fund established by the State in accordance with this
subsection;
``(B) the State will deposit in the fund from State
moneys an amount equal to at least 20 percent of the
total amount of all such capitalization grants on or
before the date on which each grant payment is made to
the State; and
``(C) no loan or other financial assistance will be
provided to a public water system from such revolving
fund for any capital expenditures if the Administrator
has determined, pursuant to appropriate criteria, that
such expenses could be avoided or significantly reduced
by consolidation of that public water system with any
other public water system, except that in such cases
such assistance may be provided from the fund for such
consolidation.
Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), the State may combine
capitalization grants under this subsection with another
revolving fund established by the State if the Administrator
determines that the grants under this subsection, together with
loan repayments and interest, will be used solely for the
purposes specified in paragraph (1).
``(3) Fund administration.--(A) Each State may use up to 5
percent of the monies in a revolving fund established under
this subsection to cover the reasonable costs of administration
of the assistance program under this subsection.
``(B) The Administrator shall promulgate such regulations
as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this
section, including provisions to ensure that each State commits
and expends funds from revolving funds established under this
subsection in accordance with this Act and applicable Federal
and State laws and that the State uses accounting, audit, and
fiscal procedures that conform to generally accepted accounting
standards.
``(C) Each State administering a revolving fund and
assistance program under this subsection shall publish and
submit to the Administrator a report every 2 years on its
activities under this subsection, including the findings of the
most recent audit of the fund. The Administrator shall
periodically audit all revolving funds established under this
subsection in accordance with procedures established by the
Comptroller General.
``(4) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out
the purposes of this subsection $599,000,000 for the fiscal
year 1994 and $1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1995,
1996, and 1997, and such sums as may be necessary
thereafter.''.
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