President Biden is expected to sign the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“Act”) this week.
A significant portion of the Act deals with a number of energy, water and environmental issues.
Examples include:
- Underground injection control grants (50 million)
- Decarbonization of the school bus fleet (5 billion)
- Carbon Utilization Subsidy Program (310 million)
- Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program ($2.1 billion)
- Drinking water (55 billion)
- Investment in infrastructure
- Addressing Lead Service Lines
- National network of electric vehicle chargers (7.5 billion)
- Clean energy transmission/grid ($65 billion)
- Construction of resilient transmission lines
- Support the deployment of clean energy technologies
- Superfund/Brownfield/Oil and Gas ($21 billion)
- Additional funding for Superfund/Brownfield sites
- Funding for the rehabilitation of abandoned mines
- Funding to plug orphan oil and gas wells
- Public Treatment Works/Community Water Supply Systems Low Income Relief ($225 million)
- Pollution prevention (100 million)
- Clean Water Act Section 221 Sewer Overflow/Stormwater Municipal Reuse Grants Program ($1.85 billion)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Alternative Water Source Grants ($125 million)
- Septic and decentralized systems (150 million)
- US Department of Transportation/EPA/National Academy of Sciences to study stormwater management best practices
- US Department of the Interior (“DOI”) Water Storage, Groundwater Storage, and Transportation Project Feasibility Study
- Competitive Grant Program for Large-Scale Water Recycling and Reuse Program
- RECYCLE law (75 million)
- United States DOI Assistance for Groundwater Recharge, Aquifer Storage, and Water Source Substitution Projects
- SPFA
- EPA support for small, disadvantaged communities program to combat emerging contaminants ($5 billion)
- State Revolving Fund for Drinking Water for Emerging Contaminants ($4 billion)
- Clean Water State Revolving Fund addressing emerging contaminants ($1 billion)
- Extends certain Superfund excise taxes until December 21, 2031
- State and local grants for battery treatment ($3 billion)
- Funding for hydroelectric facilities owned or operated by the county ($628 million)