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The bill preserves federal authorization for drinking-water resilience grants through 2031—protecting water quality and enabling local planning—while raising federal spending and risking gaps between promises and actual appropriations and continued administrative shortcomings.
Local governments and water utilities keep eligibility for federal grants that fund water-system resilience and upgrades through FY2027–FY2031, enabling repairs, upgrades, and resilience projects.
Communities—including rural areas and homeowners—continue to receive investments that reduce flooding, contamination, and service disruptions, improving water quality and public health.
Local governments and utilities gain continued predictability for multiyear planning because the program is authorized through 2031, supporting longer-term project timelines and budgeting.
Taxpayers may face continued federal spending to support the program during FY2027–FY2031, increasing budgetary pressures absent offsetting savings.
Local governments and utilities (and the communities that rely on them) risk being promised support that could go unfunded if Congress does not appropriate money to match the authorization.
Extending the authorization without reforms could perpetuate existing allocation or administrative problems, delaying more effective or equitable use of funds.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Extends authorization periods for clean water and drinking water resilience programs from FY2022–FY2026 to FY2027–FY2031.
Extends authorization periods for existing federal programs that support resilience and sustainability of water systems. Specifically, it reauthorizes the Clean Water Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Program and two Safe Drinking Water Act resilience programs for an additional five-year period covering fiscal years 2027–2031. The bill updates statutory language to replace prior authorization dates (FY2022–FY2026) with FY2027–FY2031. It continues program authority but does not itself appropriate new funds or change program structure or eligibility rules.
Introduced January 7, 2026 by Lisa Blunt Rochester · Last progress January 7, 2026