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

Section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) in paragraph (2)— (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting publicly owned, operated, and managed before community water systems; and (ii) by striking subparagraph (E) and inserting the following: (E) Acquisition of privately owned community water systems The funds under this section may be used— (i) to purchase from a willing or unwilling seller a privately owned community water system; and (ii) for expenses related to canceling a contract for the operation or management of a community water system.; and (B) by adding at the end the following: (6) Exception to public ownership, operation, and management requirement 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.; (2) in subsection (d), by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following: (2) Requirement 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.; (3) in subsection (e), by striking to be made to the State and inserting that was made to the State in fiscal year 2021; (4) in subsection (g)(3)— (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (C) as clauses (i) through (iii), respectively, and indenting appropriately; (B) in the undesignated matter following clause (iii) (as so redesignated), by striking The guidance and regulations shall also and inserting the following: (B) Generally accepted accounting standards The guidance and regulations required under subparagraph (A) shall; (C) in the matter preceding clause (i) (as so redesignated), by striking The Administrator and inserting the following: (A) In general The Administrator; and (D) in subparagraph (A) (as so designated)— (i) in clause (ii) (as so redesignated), by striking and at the end; (ii) in clause (iii) (as so redesignated), by striking the period at the end and inserting; and; and (iii) by inserting after clause (iii) the following: (iv) 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 (5) in subsection (k)(1), by adding at the end the following: (E) Provide assistance in the form of a grant to publicly owned, operated, and managed community water systems for the purpose of replacing lead service lines (as defined in section 1459B(a)) on private or public property with copper service lines that are lead free (as defined in section 1417(d)(1)) at no cost to the owner of the property. (F) 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 that contains at least 1 fully fluorinated carbon atom. (G) 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 that contains at least 1 fully fluorinated carbon atom for the purpose of purchasing and installing a household filtration system..