§1302d Grants for Construction and Refurbishing of Individual Household Decentralized Wastewater Systems for Individuals with Low or Moderate Income

Summary

Creates a grant program, run by the Administrator, that gives money to private nonprofit groups to help eligible low- and moderate-income households build, fix, or replace individual household decentralized wastewater treatment systems. Grants can also pay to install a larger decentralized system that serves two or more households if individual systems are not possible nearby and a shared system is cost-effective. The program only runs if Congress provides money. Eligible individual: someone in a low- or moderate-income household whose combined income for the most recent 12-month period is no more than 50 percent of the State or territory’s nonmetropolitan median household income from the most recent decennial census. Nonprofits must apply to the Administrator to get grants, and households must apply to the nonprofit to get services. Priority goes to nonprofits with relevant experience and to households without access to a sanitary sewage disposal system. Nonprofits may use grant funds for reasonable admin costs. The Administrator must report results to Congress within 2 years after November 15, 2021. Congress authorized $50,000,000 each year for fiscal years 2022–2026, and up to 2 percent of those amounts may be used for the Administrator’s administrative costs.