Sec. 5. Assistance for water efficient plumbing code adoption
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The Administrator shall establish a program to make grants to States, Tribal governments, and units of local government that have authority to adopt plumbing codes— to adopt plumbing codes that meet or exceed— the latest American National Standard published as the Water Efficiency and Sanitation Standard for the Built Environment or WE–Stand (or any successor American National Standard); or the requirements described in Chapter 6 (Water Use Efficiency) of the code published by the International Code Council entitled 2018 International Green Construction Code
(IGCC)(or any successor requirements described in a code published by the International Code Council); and to implement a plan for the jurisdiction to achieve, within 5 years of the date on which the jurisdiction receives the grant, compliance with a plumbing code described in paragraph
(1)in at least 90 percent of new and renovated residential, commercial, and industrial buildings, as applicable, which shall include— workforce training; an enforcement program; and a compliance measurement program. A State that has adopted a plumbing code described in subsection (a)(1) may use funds from a grant under this section to make subgrants to relevant Tribal or local agencies to implement the plumbing code through 1 or more of the following: Workforce training. An enforcement program. A compliance measurement program. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2028. Of the amounts made available under paragraph
(1)for grants under this section each fiscal year, the Administrator may use not more than 4 percent to pay the administrative costs of the Administrator.