S.Amdt. 1479

SA 1479. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1460 proposed by Mr. Carper (for himself and Mrs. Capito)
to the bill S. 914, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act and the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize programs under those
Acts, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

Beginning on page 6, strike line 21 and all that follows
through page 7, line 21, and insert the following:
(b) Assistance for Disadvantaged Communities.--Section
1452(d)(1) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-
12(d)(1)) is amended--
(1) by striking ``Notwithstanding any'' and inserting the
following:
``(A) In general.--Notwithstanding any'';
(2) in subparagraph (A) (as so designated), by inserting
``, grants, negative interest loans, other loan forgiveness,
and through buying, refinancing, or restructuring debt''
after ``forgiveness of principal''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(B) Exclusion.--A loan from a State loan fund with an
interest rate equal to or greater than 0 percent shall not be
considered additional subsidization for purposes of this
subsection.''.
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