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To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide grants for projects that demonstrate technologies and methods for reducing discharges from combined sewer overflows into navigable waters…

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To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide grants for projects that demonstrate technologies and methods for reducing discharges from combined sewer overflows into navigable waters of interstate significance.

Introduced: February 9, 1995 See on congress.gov
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Feb 24, 1995
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Feb 9, 1995
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Opportunities, and Commerce, 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.
Feb 9, 1995
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to State, interstate, regional, and local entities for projects that demonstrate innovative and cost-effective technologies and methods for reducing discharges from combined sewer overflows into navigable waters of interstate significance. Requires the Administrator, in awarding such grants, to give priority consideration to projects that provide for the transfer of technologies to other areas of the United States.

Sets the maximum Federal share of project costs at: (1) 100 percent of the cost of a feasibility study; (2) 80 percent of the cost of engineering and design; and (3) 80 percent of the cost of construction.

Authorizes appropriations.

What's happening now February 24, 1995

Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

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Neal, Richard E.
Massachusetts · Feb 9, 1995
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 879: To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide grants for projects that demonstrate technologies and methods for reducing discharges from combined sewer overflows into navigable waters of interstate significance.. 104th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/104-HR-879/
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"H.R. 879: To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide grants for projects that demonstrate technologies and methods for reducing discharges from combined sewer overflows into navigable waters of interstate significance.." 104th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/104-HR-879/.
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H.R. 879, 104th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/104-HR-879/.
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