Sec. 190701. Home energy and water service continuity
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Any entity receiving financial assistance pursuant to any division of this Act shall, to the maximum extent practicable, establish or maintain in effect policies to ensure that no home energy service or public water system service to a residential customer, which is provided or regulated by such entity, is or remains disconnected or interrupted during the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act because of nonpayment, and all reconnections of such public water system service are conducted in a manner that minimizes risk to the health of individuals receiving such service.
For purposes of this section, the term home energy service means a service to provide home energy, as such term is defined in section 2603 of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, or service provided by an electric utility, as such term is defined in section 3 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, and the term public water system has the meaning given that term in section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require forgiveness of any debt incurred or owed to an entity or to absolve an individual of any obligation to an entity for service, nor to preempt any State or local law or regulation governing entities that provide such services to residential customers.