Sponsor
Mike Collins
Representative · R-GA
Representative · R-GA
The bill trades clearer, more practical EPA guidance focused on U.S.-available technologies for reduced visibility of emerging or foreign treatment innovations, which may slow adoption of better solutions and disproportionately hurt small or rural systems.
State and local governments and utilities: EPA and researchers will focus guidance on technologies actually sold in the U.S., making guidance more directly usable and reducing confusion from references to foreign prototypes or unavailable products.
Nonprofits, state and local governments, and utilities: EPA will be limited in informing about emerging or foreign technologies that could improve water quality, reducing awareness of potentially superior treatment options.
Utilities and local governments: Omitting information on promising non‑commercial or foreign technologies could slow adoption of innovative treatment approaches and delay infrastructure improvements.
Rural communities and smaller systems: Limiting guidance to technologies sold domestically may disadvantage smaller or rural water systems that could benefit from experimental or overseas solutions not available in the U.S. market.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Limits the statutory set of water-quality technologies referenced in federal publications to those commercially available in the United States.
Official title: To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure that the total cost of application of technology that is commercially available in the United States is considered with respect to certain guidelines relating to effluent limitations, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 11, 2025 by Mike Collins · Last progress June 11, 2025
Narrows a statutory reference about water-quality technologies so that federal guidance and information must focus only on technologies that are commercially available in the United States. It changes a phrase in current law to limit the set of technologies considered when agencies develop and publish information under that provision.