Affordable Clean Water Infrastructure Act

This bill changes how states can use federal Clean Water revolving loan funds to give extra financial help, such as loan forgiveness or grants, to wastewater systems. It would let states use up to 50 percent of their yearly federal capitalization grants, or a 10-year average of extra state deposits if greater, for this extra help. States could use an additional 10 percent of the grant for rural, small, and tribal publicly owned treatment works. If there are enough qualifying applications, states would have to use at least 20 percent of their grants for extra help. It also allows affordability to be measured within the area a project serves and states that loans with an interest rate of 0 percent or more do not count as extra help.

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Sponsors

• Kristen McDonald Rivet Democrat sponsor
• 4 cosponsors