Drinking Water Infrastructure for Job Creation Act
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Drinking Water Infrastructure for Job Creation Act
This bill provides $7.5 billion in supplemental FY2017 appropriations to the Environmental Protection Agency to remain available through FY2022 for capitalization grants to the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds. (The program assists public water systems in financing infrastructure projects needed to comply with federal drinking water regulations and meet health objectives under the Safe Drinking Water Act.)
The funding provided by this bill is designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. The emergency funding is exempt from discretionary spending limits and is only available if the President subsequently designates the amounts as an emergency and submits the designation to Congress.
The bill also exempts the funding from sequestration. (Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.)
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3859: Drinking Water Infrastructure for Job Creation Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-3859/
"H.R. 3859: Drinking Water Infrastructure for Job Creation Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-3859/.
H.R. 3859, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-3859/.
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