Sec. 7. Use of State revolving loan funds under the Safe Drinking Water Act

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Section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300j–12 ) is amended— in subsection (a)— in paragraph (2)— in subparagraph (A), by inserting publicly owned, operated, and managed before community water systems ; and by striking subparagraph

(E)and inserting the following: The funds under this section may be used— to purchase from a willing or unwilling seller a privately owned community water system; and for expenses related to canceling a contract for the operation or management of a community water system. ; and by adding at the end the following: Notwithstanding paragraph (2)(A), public water systems that regularly serve fewer than 10,000 persons and which are not owned, operated, or managed by any person who owns, operates, or manages any other public water system may receive assistance under this section. ; in subsection (d), by striking paragraph

(2)and inserting the following: To the extent that there are sufficient applications for loans to communities described in paragraph (1), of the amount of the capitalization grant received by a State in a fiscal year, the total amount of loan subsidies made by the State in the fiscal year pursuant to paragraph

(1)may not be less than 50 percent. ; in subsection (e), by striking to be made to the State and inserting that was made to the State in fiscal year 2021 ; in subsection (g)(3)— by redesignating subparagraphs

(A)through

(C)as clauses

(i)through (iii), respectively, and indenting appropriately; in the undesignated matter following clause

(iii)(as so redesignated), by striking The guidance and regulations shall also and inserting the following: The guidance and regulations required under subparagraph

(A)shall ; in the matter preceding clause

(i)(as so redesignated), by striking The Administrator and inserting the following: The Administrator ; and in subparagraph

(A)(as so designated)— in clause

(ii)(as so redesignated), by striking and at the end; in clause

(iii)(as so redesignated), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by inserting after clause

(iii)the following: guidance to ensure affordable, equitable, transparent and reliable water service provision, to provide protections for households facing service disconnection due to unpaid water service charges, and to promote universal equal access to water services. ; and in subsection (k)(1), by adding at the end the following: Provide assistance in the form of a grant to owners of private property on which a lead service line (as defined in section 1459B(a)) is or may be located, for the purpose of replacing the lead service line with a service line that is lead free (as defined in section 1417(d)). Provide assistance to a publicly owned, operated, and managed community water system for the purpose of updating treatment plants or switching water sources due to contamination from a perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance (as defined by the State in which the community water system is located). Provide assistance in the form of a grant to owners of a household water well that has been contaminated by a perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance (as defined by the State in which the household well is located) for the purpose of purchasing and installing a household filtration system. .

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Use of State revolving loan funds under the Safe Drinking Water Act

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