Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

Creates a formula-based grant program for states to use to award subgrants for unserved service projects and underserved service projects; connecting eligible community anchor institutions; data collection, broadband mapping, and planning; installing internet and Wi-Fi infrastructure or providing reduced-cost broadband within a multi-family residential building, with priority given to a residential building that has a substantial share of unserved households, and is in a location in which the percentage of individuals with a household income that is at or below 150 percent of the poverty line applicable to a family of the size involved; and broadband adoption, including programs to provide affordable internet-capable devices.

Eligible applicants include cooperatives, nonprofit organizations, public-private partnerships, private companies, public or private utilities, public utility districts, and local governments.

Funding: $42.45 billion to be distributed to the states based on proportion of total unserved and underserved locations, with an initial allocation of $100 million per state.

Establishes a program to fund planning for and then promotion of digital inclusion and equity for communities that lack the skills, technologies and support needed to take advantage of broadband connections. 

Eligible projects must focus on specific populations in the types of communities identified above, and project scopes can include development and implementation of digital inclusion activities; facilitating the adoption of broadband in order to provide educational and employment opportunities; implementing training programs that cover basic, advanced, and applied skills, or other workforce development programs; making available equipment, instrumentation, networking capability, hardware and software, or digital network technology for broadband services at low or no cost; and construct, upgrade, expend, or operate new or existing public access computing centers through community anchor institutions.

Funding: $250 million for each of the first 5 fiscal years in which funds are made available to carry out this section; and such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year after the end.

Provides grants for the expansion and extension of middle mile infrastructure to reduce the cost of connecting unserved and underserved areas to the internet and to promote broadband connection resiliency through the creation of alternative network connection paths that can be designed to prevent single points of failure on a broadband network.

Funding: $1 billion for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.

Creates the Advanced Drinking Water Technology Grant Program by amending the  Safe Drinking Water Act. 

Eligible entities are owners or operators of public water systems that serve a population of not more than 100,000 people; a disadvantaged community; or with a population of less than 10,000 individuals that does not have the capacity to incur debt sufficient to finance a project or activity.

Activities eligible for funding through this program include the employment of new, existing, or emerging, yet proven, technologies, including technology that could address cybersecurity vulnerabilities, that enhance treatment, monitoring, affordability, efficiency, or safety of the drinking water provided by the public water system.

Funding: $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, to remain available until expended.

Establishes a pilot program for states to grant additional funds to underserved communities to implement projects funded through the Connection to Public Water Systems Assistance Program and the Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Program.

Funding: $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.

Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act by establishing a competitive grant program for owners or operators of public water systems, or nonprofits that assist, or are seeking to assist, eligible individuals with connecting the household of the eligible individual to the public water system.

Funding: $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.

Creates a  grant pilot program available to municipalities to carry out lead reduction projects that are demonstrated to exist or are suspected to exist, based on available data, information, or resources, including existing lead inventorying of those eligible entities.

Eligibility includes a municipality that is served by a community water system or a non-transient noncommunity water system in which not less than 30 percent of the service lines are known, or suspected, to contain lead, based on available data, information, or resources, including existing lead inventorying. 

Priority will be given to municipalities that meet the affordability criteria of the State.

Funding: $10,000,000 available until expended.

Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act by establishing the Midsize and Large Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Program. 

Through the program, grants will be awarded, subject to availability of appropriations, for the purpose of increasing resilience to natural hazards and extreme weather events; and reducing cybersecurity vulnerabilities. 

Eligible entities are public water systems that serve a community with a population of 10,000 or more, and eligible projects include planning, design, construction, implementation, operation, or maintenance.

Funding: $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, with 50 percent to entities that serve a population of between 10,000 and 100,000; and 50 percent to entities that serve a population equal to or greater than 100,000.

Establishes, subject to the availability of appropriations, a program to award grants to eligible entities for the purpose of improving the operational sustainability of one or more small systems. 

Eligible entities include states, local governments, public corporations established by a unit of local government to provide water service, and nonprofit corporations, public trusts, or cooperative associations that own or operate a public water system. Activities eligible for funding through this program are the development of a detailed asset inventory, which may include drinking water sources, wells, storage, valves, treatment systems, distribution lines, hydrants, pumps, controls, and other essential infrastructure; the development of an infrastructure asset map, including a map that uses technology such as geographic information system software, and global positioning system software; the deployment of leak detection technology; the deployment of metering technology; training in asset management strategies, techniques, and technologies for appropriate staff employed; and the deployment of strategies, techniques, and technologies to enhance the operational sustainability and effective use of water resources through water reuse.

Funding: $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.

Creates a new pilot program to award grants to develop and implement programs to assist qualifying households with a need in maintaining access to drinking water and wastewater treatment.

Eligible entities include municipalities and other entities that own or operate a community water system, treatment works, or municipal separate storm sewer system; or have taken on an unsustainable level of debt due to customer nonpayment for the services provided by a community water system, treatment works, or municipal separate storm sewer system. Types of assistance that may be provided through this program are direct financial assistance; a lifeline rate; bill discounting; special hardship provisions; a percentage-of-income payment plan; or debt relief for the eligible entity or the community water system owned by the eligible entity for debt that is due to customer nonpayment for the services provided.
Additional program specifics will be determined based on the results of a Needs Assessment for Nationwide Rural and Urban Low-Income Community Water Assistance, which was mandated by the IIJA.

Creates a new program to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of carrying out clean energy projects on current and former mine land. No more than five clean energy projects will be funded across geographically diverse regions, at least two of which shall be solar projects.

The project must be located in an  Economically Distressed Area as described in the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965.
Funding: Appropriated funding of $500,000,000 ($100,000,000 per year) for the period of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.

Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1281 et seq.) by establishing the Small And Medium Publicly Owned Treatment Works Circuit Rider Program. 

Eligible nonprofits may use funds from this program to provide assistance to owners and operators of small and medium publicly owned treatment works to carry out 

sludge collection; installation of anaerobic digesters; methane capture; methane transfer; facility upgrades and retrofits necessary to create or improve waste-to-energy systems; and other new and emerging, but proven, technologies that transform waste to energy.  Funding: $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, with individual grant amounts not to exceed $75,000.

Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to create the  Wastewater Efficiency Grant Pilot Program. The grants will be awarded to 15 owners or operators of publicly owned treatment works for the purpose of sludge collection; installation of anaerobic digesters; methane capture; methane transfer; facility upgrades and retrofits necessary to create or improve waste-to-energy systems; and other new and emerging, but proven, technologies that transform waste to energy.  

Funding: $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, to remain available until expended. Maximum amount for each grant is $4,000,000.

Amends Section 104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). Community-wide Assessment Grants are appropriate when a specific site is not identified and the applicant plans to spend grant funds on more than one brownfield site in its community. Eligible applicants include local governments, regional councils, redevelopment agencies, state agencies, nonprofit organizations (except 501C4), land clearance authorities and tribes. 

Funding: Up to $500,000 to assess sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum), and/or petroleum.

Amends Section 104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA).  Site-specific Assessment Grant is appropriate when a specific site is identified and the applicant plans to spend grant funds on this one site only.Eligible applicants include local governments, regional councils, redevelopment agencies, state agencies, nonprofit organizations (except 501c4), land clearance authorities and tribes. 

Funding: Up to $200,000 to assess a site contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum), and/or petroleum.

Amends Section 104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). Multipurpose (MP) Grants provide funding to carry out a range of eligible assessment and cleanup activities with a proposed target area, such as a neighborhood, a number of neighboring towns, a district, a corridor, a shared planning area or a census tract. The target area may not include communities that are located in distinctly different geographic areas..Eligible applicants include local governments, regional councils, redevelopment agencies, state agencies, nonprofit organizations (except 501C4), land clearance authorities and tribes. 

Funding: Up to $800,000 per application. Projects must demonstrate how grant funds will result in at least one Phase II environmental site assessment;one brownfield site cleanup; and an overall plan for revitalization of one or more brownfield sites, if there is not already a plan in place.

Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act by establishing the Clean Water Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Program. 

The program funds municipal, and intermunicipal, interstate, or state agency planning, designing, or constructing projects (on a system-wide or area-wide basis) that increase the resilience of a publicly owned treatment works to a natural hazard or cybersecurity vulnerabilities through the conservation of water; enhancement of water use efficiency; enhancement of wastewater and stormwater management by increasing watershed preservation and protection; modification or relocation of an existing publicly owned treatment works, conveyance, or discharge system component that is at risk of being significantly impaired or damaged by a natural hazard; development and implementation of projects to increase the resilience of publicly owned treatment works to a natural hazard or cybersecurity vulnerabilities, as applicable; or enhancement of energy efficiency or the use and generation of recovered or renewable energy in the management, treatment, or conveyance of wastewater or stormwater. 

Funding: $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. Grant amounts are not to exceed 75 percent of total project cost, unless the project serves a community that has a population of fewer than 10,000 individuals, or meets the affordability criteria established by the State. In which case, the grant amount may not exceed 90 percent of the total cost of the proposed project. At the discretion of the Administrator, a grant may cover 100 percent of the total cost.

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act is amended to establish a competitive grant program for eligible entities to provide funds to assist qualified individuals in covering the costs incurred by the qualified individual in connecting the household of the qualified individual to a publicly owned treatment works. 

Eligibility includes owners or operators of a publicly owned treatment works that assists or is seeking to assist low-income or moderate-income individuals with connecting the household of the individual to the publicly owned treatment works; or nonprofit entities that assist low-income or moderate-income individuals with the costs associated with connecting the household of the individual to a publicly owned treatment works.

Funding: $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.

This grant program is established by amending the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to make funds available to private nonprofit organizations assisting individual members of low-income or moderate-income households who have a combined income (for the most recent 12-month period for which information is available) equal to not more than 50 percent of the median nonmetropolitan household income for the State or territory in which the household is located, according to the most recent decennial census. 

Eligible projects include construction, repair, or replacement of an individual household decentralized wastewater treatment system; or installation of a larger decentralized wastewater system designed to provide treatment for two or more households in which eligible individuals reside.

Funding: $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.

Creates a new pilot program to award grants to eligible entities to develop and implement programs to assist qualifying households with need in maintaining access to drinking water and wastewater treatment.

The types of assistance activities eligible for funding through this program include direct financial assistance;  a lifeline rate;  bill discounting;  special hardship provisions; a percentage-of-income payment plan; or debt relief for the eligible entity or the community water system owned by the eligible entity for debt that is due to customer nonpayment for the services provided.

Additional program specifics will be determined following the Needs Assessment For Nationwide Rural And Urban Low-Income Community Water Assistance.

The program is created by amending the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and provides grants to owners or operators of a small publicly owned treatment works that serve a population of not more than 10,000 people, or a disadvantaged community; or nonprofit organizations that seek to assist a small publicly owned treatment works.

Eligible activities include the replacement or repair of equipment that improves water or energy efficiency of small publicly owned treatment works, as identified in an efficiency audit.

Provides funding for competitive planning and implementation grants to state, tribal, or local governments; or a local, regional, or other public entity that manages stormwater or wastewater resources or other related water infrastructure eligible entities to carry out stormwater control infrastructure projects that incorporate new and emerging, but proven, stormwater control technologies. Funding: $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.

Establishes a grant program to fund the creation of systems that improve the sharing of information concerning water quality, water infrastructure needs, and water technology, including cybersecurity technology, between States or among counties and other units of local government within a State.

Eligible entities include state, county, or other units of local government that have  coastal watersheds with significant pollution levels, a water system with significant pollution levels, or significant individual water infrastructure deficits; or a regional consortium.

Funding: $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, to remain available until expended.