Clean Water Affordability Act
Latest action · Aug 1, 2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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.
- IntroducedAug 1, 2008
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Clean Water Affordability Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make grants to states for the purpose of providing grants to municipalities for use in planning, designing, and constructing treatment works to intercept, transport, control, or treat municipal combined sewer overflows and sanitary sewer overflows and municipalities for such purposes. Requires states or the Administrator to give priority to financially distressed communities.
Requires the Administrator, no later than December 31, 2010, (currently, 2003) and periodically thereafter, to report to Congress on recommended funding levels for sewer overflow control grants.
Requires the Administrator to update the guidance entitled "Combined Sewer Overflows -- Guidance for Financial Capability Assessment and Schedule Development" dated February 1997, to ensure that the evaluations by the Administrator of financial capability assessment and schedule development meet specified criteria, including criteria used in assessing financial capability of a community to make investments necessary to make water quality-related improvements and in implementing water quality-related improvements.
Requires such updated guidance to indicate that it is appropriate for the reconsideration and modification of financial capability determinations and implementation schedules to be based on such criteria.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Aug 1, 2008.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Original | Aug 1, 2008 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 1, 2008Introduced in Senate
- Aug 1, 2008Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Authorization
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Demography
- Depressed areas
- Drainage
- Economic conditions
- Economics and Public Finance
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Federal aid to water pollution control
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Income
- Revolving funds
- Sewage disposal
- Sewerage
- Waste water
- Water pollution control
- Water quality
- Water rates
- Water treatment plants
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Aug 1, 2008Introduced in Senate
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