Sec. 30302. Funding for water assistance program
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $225,000,000, to remain available until expended, to provide grants to States, Indian Tribes, and Tribal organizations to assist low-income households that pay a high proportion of household income for drinking water and wastewater (including stormwater) services, particularly households with an annual income that is less than or equal to 150 percent of the Federal poverty line, by providing amounts to community water systems (as defined in section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300f )) or publicly owned treatment works (as defined in section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1292 )) to reduce the arrearages of and rates charged to those households for those services by up to 100 percent.
Of the amounts made available under subsection (a), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall reserve not more than 3 percent to provide the assistance described in that subsection to Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations. An entity receiving assistance pursuant to this section shall not be required to provide a share of the costs of carrying out the activity funded by that assistance. Of the amounts made available under subsection (a), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall reserve 7 percent for the administrative costs of carrying out this section.
In this section, the term State means— each of the 50 States; the District of Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; American Samoa; Guam; the United States Virgin Islands; and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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