Sec. 7. Establishment of PFAS infrastructure grant program
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Part E of the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300j et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall establish a program to award grants to affected community water systems to pay for capital costs associated with the implementation of eligible treatment technologies. Not later than 12 months after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall publish guidance describing the form and timing for community water systems to apply for grants under this section.
The Administrator shall require a community water system applying for a grant under this section to submit— information showing the presence of PFAS in water of the community water system; and a certification that the treatment technology in use by the community water system at the time of application is not sufficient to remove all detectable amounts of PFAS. Not later than 150 days after the date of enactment of this section, and every 2 years thereafter, the Administrator shall publish a list of treatment technologies that the Administrator, after providing an opportunity for public comment, determines are effective at removing all detectable amounts of PFAS from drinking water.
In awarding grants under this section, the Administrator shall prioritize affected community water systems that— serve a disadvantaged community or a disproportionately exposed community; will provide at least a 10-percent cost share for the cost of implementing an eligible treatment technology; or demonstrate the capacity to maintain the eligible treatment technology to be implemented using the grant. Amounts awarded to affected community water systems under this section may not be used as a source of payment of, or security for (directly or indirectly), in whole or in part, any obligation the interest on which is exempt from the tax imposed under chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section not more than— $125,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 and 2021; and $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2024. Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by paragraph (1), $25,000,000 are authorized to be appropriated for each of fiscal years 2020 and 2021 for grants under subsection
(a)to pay for capital costs associated with the implementation of eligible treatment technologies during the period beginning on October 1, 2014, and ending on the date of enactment of this section. In this section: The term affected community water system means a community water system that is affected by the presence of PFAS in the water in the community water system. The term disadvantaged community has the meaning given that term in section 1452. The term disproportionately exposed community means a community in which climate change, pollution, or environmental destruction have exacerbated systemic racial, regional, social, environmental, and economic injustices by disproportionately affecting indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, or youth. The term eligible treatment technology means a treatment technology included on the list published under subsection (c). The term PFAS means a perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance with at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom, including the chemical GenX. .
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