Clean Water SRF Parity Act of 2025

The Clean Water SRF Parity Act of 2025 would let states use their water pollution control revolving funds to help more kinds of projects that keep water clean. It adds clear permission to fund privately owned wastewater treatment plants for upgrades, new construction, water‑saving steps, cutting energy use, and improving security, as well as other standard clean water activities. It also makes certain qualified nonprofit groups eligible for assistance to build, buy, or improve treatment works, and to do other already‑eligible clean water projects.

There are guardrails. States could not give extra subsidies beyond regular assistance for these new private or nonprofit projects. And any help must mainly and directly benefit the people or businesses who use the treatment system—not the plant’s owners or shareholders—based on the state agency’s judgment.

• Who is affected: Owners/operators of private wastewater treatment plants; qualified nonprofits; state clean water fund programs; communities served by private systems.
• What changes: Expands what projects can get state clean water fund assistance; bars extra subsidization for these private/nonprofit projects; requires benefits to flow to customers, not shareholders.