众议院基础设施倡导者正在为水基础设施资金奠定标志，并提议为期五年的措施授权500亿美元用于废水处理基础设施计划。

该法案于3月16日推出的法案核心在五年内用于清洁水国家循环资金（SRFS）400亿美元。该计划（提供贷款而不是赠款）一直是废水处理项目的主要联邦资金来源。18luck官网

[View House committee's fact sheet on billhere;section-by-section summaryhere;和七页的帐单文字here。]。

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), the bill's sponsor, said in astatementthat if enacted, the new measure would reauthorize the SRF program for the first time in more than 30 years.

Defazio说：“我们有机会对农村和城市社区进行投资，并确保无论人们居住什么邮政编码，他们都将获得清洁，可靠和安全的水。”

The bill is silent on where the sizable new revenue would come from. Revenue measures fall under the purview of the Ways and Means Committee.

Another caveat is that, like all authorization bills, the water proposal’s funding is subject to annual appropriations. The SRF section of the bill authorizes $8 billion per year for Clean Water SRFs.

主要的共同赞助商众议员格蕾丝·纳波利塔诺（Grace Napolitano）（D-Calif。）主席水资源和环境小组委员会主席，他在2月23日的听证会上表示，SRFS的2021财年拨款仅为16亿美元。[View ENR 2/23/2021story on the hearinghere。]。

全国清洁水机构政府事务董事总经理Kristina Surfus在电子邮件给ENR的评论中说：“将挑战国会为包括水在内的所有类型的基础设施投资寻找薪水。”新利luck

Surfus adds, "This clean water authorization package is a great first step, setting the stage for significantly higher appropriations."

Besides the $40 billion for SRFs, the new proposal also would authorize $10 billion in water infrastructure grants.

Of that amount, $2.5 billion would go to states for water quality improvement programs, another $2.5 billion would be provided to Indian Tribes’ wastewater projects and $2 billion would go to municipalities for sewer-overflow or stormwater projects.

Municipalities would receive $1 billion for watershed, wet weather and resilience pilot projects.

替代水源的试18luck官网点项目，例如废水和雨水再利用，也将获得10亿美元的分配。

剩下的10亿美元将分配给市政当局，以处理多氟烷基物质（PFA）和其他水污染物的处理。

该法案没有解决饮酒基础设施，因为该计划属于众议院能源和商业委员会的管辖权，而不是运输和基础设施。

According to the House committee, the measure has the support of more than 50 groups, including NACWA, the Associated General Contractors of America, Sierra Club, U.S. Conference of Mayors and two large building trades unions.