Water Quality Technology Availability Act

This bill changes how federal water pollution limits are set. When the government writes rules to limit what factories and plants can release into waterways, it must base those rules on technology that is actually for sale in the United States and consider the total cost to use it. In short, it aims to prevent rules that depend on unavailable or experimental tech, and to weigh real-world costs when setting clean‑water standards.

Key points

• Who is affected: Industries and facilities that must follow federal limits on what they discharge into water, and the agencies that set those limits.
• What changes: Rules must consider technology that is commercially available in the U.S., and account for the total cost to apply that technology when setting effluent limits.
• When: The bill updates existing law; no specific effective date is provided in the text shown.