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

Summary

Sets up a grant program where the Administrator gives money to private nonprofit groups to help low- and moderate-income households build, fix, or replace home decentralized wastewater systems. The grants can also pay to install a larger system for 2 or more households if the sites nearby cannot use individual systems, several nearby homes have the same problem, and a larger system is cost‑effective. Nonprofits must apply to the Administrator and will be chosen first if they have strong experience with these systems. Nonprofits can use some grant money for their own administrative costs. Households must apply to the local nonprofit for help, and priority goes to people who do not have access to a sanitary sewage disposal system. An "eligible individual" is someone in a household whose combined income for the most recent 12 months is no more than 50 percent of the State or territory’s median nonmetropolitan household income from the latest decennial census. The Administrator must report to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives not later than 2 years after November 15, 2021, about who got grants and the program’s results. Congress authorized $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and no more than 2 percent of that may be used for the Administrator’s administrative costs.