Impaired Waters Improvement Act
Have a question about what this bill does? Ask in plain English; the answer is drawn from the bill's actual text and official record, and it'll tell you when something isn't in the text rather than guess.
Impaired Waters Improvement Act - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make grants to reduce the discharges of nitrogen, phosphorus, or sediment (pollutants) in an area that is subject to a total maximum daily load (TMDL) for those pollutants under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act). Makes eligible for grants the owners and operators of: (1) publicly owned treatment works or storm water management practices serving areas subject to the TMDLs, or (2) privately owned farms implementing methods to reduce discharges of those pollutants in those areas.
Directs the Administrator to increase by 5% the civil penalty for violations of the Clean Water Act. Establishes the Impaired Waters Improvement Fund for making expenditures to carry out the grant program. Transfers for each of FY2015-FY2019 the amount attributable to the penalty increase or $100 million, whichever is less, to the Fund.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4739: Impaired Waters Improvement Act. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-4739/
"H.R. 4739: Impaired Waters Improvement Act." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-4739/.
H.R. 4739, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-4739/.
[H.R. 4739: Impaired Waters Improvement Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-4739/)