Sec. 10. Household wastewater grant program
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Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1281 et seq.) is further amended by adding at the end the following: The Administrator shall establish a program to provide grants to municipalities or qualified nonprofit entities to provide assistance to eligible individuals— for the construction, repair, or replacement of an individual household decentralized wastewater treatment system; for the construction of a decentralized wastewater treatment system designed to provide wastewater treatment for 2 or more households in which eligible individuals reside, if— such a decentralized wastewater treatment system could be cost-effectively constructed; and site conditions at such households are unsuitable for the construction of an individual household decentralized wastewater treatment system; or in a case in which an eligible individual resides in a household that could be cost-effectively connected to an available publicly owned treatment works, for the connection of the applicable household to such treatment works.
To be eligible to receive a grant under this subsection, a municipality or qualified nonprofit entity shall submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator determines to be appropriate. In providing grants under this section, the Administrator shall, to the maximum extent practicable, prioritize applications for activities that will assist eligible individuals residing in households that are not connected to a system or technology designed to treat domestic sewage, including eligible individuals using household cesspools.
Of the amounts made available under subsection (h), the Administrator may use not more than 2 percent for administrative costs. A municipality or qualified nonprofit entity may use grant funds provided under this section to pay the administrative expenses associated with the provision of the assistance to eligible individuals under this section, as the Administrator determines to be appropriate. Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report describing the recipients of grants and assistance under this section and the results of the program established under this section.
The requirements of sections 513 and 608 shall apply to any project for the construction, repair, or replacement of a decentralized wastewater treatment system, or for the connection of a household to a treatment works, for which assistance is received under this section. In this section: The term eligible individual has the meaning given that term in section 603(j). The term qualified nonprofit entity means an entity determined by the Administrator to be a qualified nonprofit entity for purposes of section 603(c)(12).
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator to carry out this section $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. .
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