Clean Water Infrastructure Financing Act of 2003
Latest action · Jan 8, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 7, 2003
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Requires architectural and engineering contracts to be awarded consistent with procedures under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 or an equivalent State qualifications-based requirement.
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to assist States in establishing simplified procedures for small water systems to obtain assistance under the Act.
Requires revolving funds to be used only for providing assistance for activities which have as a principal benefit the improvement or protection of water quality of navigable waters. Makes revisions concerning uses of funds for: (1) innovative technologies; (2) administrative expenses; (3) small system technical, planning, and management assistance; and (4) financially distressed communities.
Revises requirements related to consistency with plans and eligibility of treatment works not considered publicly owned.
Requires States to make grants to financially distressed communities in any fiscal year in which the Administrator has more than $1.4 billion available for obligation and allows a State to give priority to such communities in making loans.
Directs the Administrator to provide technical and financial assistance to owners and operators of publicly-owned treatment works for: (1) inventorying critical treatment works assets; (2) evaluating the performance and condition of these assets; and (3) developing a plan for maintaining and replacing treatment works.
Reauthorizes appropriations for FY 2004 through 2008 for the revolving fund program.
Cosponsors 153
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 7, 2003 to May 17, 2004, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Ellen O. Tauscher | Original | Jan 7, 2003 |
| R-NY | John E. Sweeney | Jan 8, 2003 | |
| R-CT | Christopher Shays | Jan 28, 2003 | |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Jan 28, 2003 | |
| R-IL | John Shimkus | Jan 28, 2003 | |
| D-NC | Mike McIntyre | Jan 28, 2003 | |
| D-WV | Nick J. Rahall II | Jan 28, 2003 | |
| R-NY | Sherwood Boehlert | Jan 28, 2003 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Feb 4, 2003 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Feb 4, 2003 | |
| D-VA | Rick Boucher | Feb 4, 2003 | |
| R-OH | Steven C. LaTourette | Feb 4, 2003 | |
| R-IL | Timothy V. Johnson | Feb 4, 2003 | |
| D-MA | Bill Delahunt | Feb 5, 2003 | |
| D-AZ | Ed Pastor | Feb 5, 2003 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 8, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Jan 7, 2003Introduced in House
- Jan 7, 2003Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 170 | Clean Water Infrastructure Financing Act of 2003 | Related bill | Jan 15, 2003 |
| HR 1560 | Water Quality Financing Act of 2003 | Related bill | Jul 17, 2003 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Administrative fees
- Architecture
- Authorization
- Depressed areas
- Economics and Public Finance
- Engineering
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental technology
- Estuaries
- Federal aid to water pollution control
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publications
- Infrastructure
- Lakes
- Land transfers
- Law
- Maintenance and repair
- Maps
- Nonpoint source pollution
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Restoration ecology
- Revolving funds
- Riparian ecology
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sewage treatment
- State finance
- Stream conservation
- Technological innovations
- User charges
- Waste water treatment
- Water conservation
- Water pollution control
- Water quality
- Water Resources Development
- Water supply
- Water treatment plants
- Water use
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