119-hr4879

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4879 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4879

 To amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to expand 
 eligibility for grants related to emergency water assistance, and for 
 other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 August 5, 2025

Mr. Costa (for himself and Mr. Edwards) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
 committee concerned

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 A BILL

 To amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to expand 
 eligibility for grants related to emergency water assistance, and for 
 other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Rural Water Response Act 
of 2025''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY AND IMMINENT COMMUNITY WATER ASSISTANCE GRANT 
 PROGRAM.

 

Section 306A of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 
U.S.C. 1926a) is amended--

    (1) in subsection
            (d) (1) --
        (A) by redesignating subparagraphs
            (C) and
            (D) as 
 subparagraphs
            (D) and
        (E) , respectively; and
        (B) by inserting after subparagraph
        (B) the 
 following:
 ``
            (C) for associated uses related to water 
 resources infrastructure, including facilities for 
 potable water, wastewater, storm drainage, or solid 
 waste;''; and

    (2) in subsection

    (e)

    (1)
        (A) , by striking ``10,000'' and 
 inserting ``35,000''.

SEC. 3. NPDES PERMIT EXEMPTION.

 

Section 402
            (l) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1342
            (l) ) is amended by adding at the end the following:
 ``

    (4) Emergency use of portable water treatment and 
 filtration facilities.--During any 6-month period immediately 
 following a declaration by a State of a disaster or state of 
 emergency, no permit shall be required under this section by 
 the Administrator (or the State, in the case of a permit 
 program approved under subsection

    (b) ) for discharges from a 
 portable water treatment and filtration facility installed in 
 the area covered by the declaration to provide clean water as 
 needed to respond to conditions caused by the event that 
 resulted in the declaration.''.
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