The bill will permanently set aside 20 percent of the Clean Water State Revolving Fund for environmentally friendly water infrastructure projects.
Permanently set aside 20 percent of the Clean Water State Revolving Fund for environmentally friendly water infrastructure projects.
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Evidence
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EPA’s FY 2026 allotment memo says the 2026 Appropriations Act still uses a mandatory 10% Clean Water Act additional-subsidy structure for CWSRF base funding, and states there are no changes in additional subsidy authorities from FY 2025 to FY 2026.
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Congress.gov shows Rep. Nikema Williams’s WISE Act was introduced in the House on April 26, 2023, referred to subcommittee on April 27, 2023, and its status remains Introduced.
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GovInfo identifies H.R. 8459 in the 119th Congress as introduced by Rep. Williams and referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure. The introduced text would require states to use at least 20 percent of CWSRF capitalization-grant funds for green infrastructure, water or energy efficiency, or other environmentally innovative activities.
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The preliminary U.S. Code text for 33 U.S.C. 1382 remains organized around existing capitalization-grant agreement requirements and shows amendments through 2014, without the WISE Act's proposed new 20 percent green-project requirement.
Assessments
The promised permanent 20 percent Clean Water State Revolving Fund green-project set-aside has not been enacted into federal law. Williams introduced WISE Act legislation in the 118th Congress and reintroduced matching legislation in the 119th Congress, but the bills remained at introduction or committee referral, and current CWSRF law and FY 2026 EPA funding guidance do not show the promised permanent 20 percent requirement. Because she made a direct legislative attempt matching the promise but the outcome has not been delivered, this is a failed delivery with effort credit.
Williams introduced H.R.2921, the WISE Act, in April 2023 to require states to reserve a share of Clean Water State Revolving Fund capitalization funds for green infrastructure, water or energy efficiency, or other environmentally innovative activities. That is a serious legislative attempt matching the promise, but the bill remained at introduced/subcommittee referral status and did not become law. Current FY 2026 EPA CWSRF guidance still reflects annual appropriations and existing subsidy/set-aside structures, including a mandatory 10% congressional additional subsidy and no change in subsidy authorities from FY 2025 to FY 2026, not a permanent 20% environmentally friendly infrastructure set-aside.