Enactment of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Energy/Water/Environmental Issues Addressed

President Biden is expected to sign this week the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“Act”).

A significant portion of the Act addresses a number of energy, water and environmental issues.

Examples include:

• Underground Injection Control Grants (50 million)
• Decarbonizing School Bus Fleet (5 billion)
• Carbon Utilization Grant Program (310 million)
• Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program (2.1 billion)
• Drinking Water (55 billion)
  • Investment in infrastructure
  • Addressing lead service pipes
• National Network for Electric Vehicle Chargers (7.5 billion)
• Clean Energy Transmission/Grid (65 billion)
  • Construction of resilient transmission lines
  • Support the deployment of clean energy technologies
• Superfund/Brownfield/Oil and Gas (21 billion)
  • Additional funding for Superfund/Brownfield sites
  • Funding for abandoned mine reclamation
  • Funding for capping orphaned oil and gas wells
• Public Owned Treatment Works/Community Water Systems Low Income Assistance (225 million)
• Pollution Prevention (100 million)
• Clean Water Act Section 221 Sewer Overflow/Stormwater Municipal Reuse Grants Program (1.85 billion)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Alternative Water Source Grants (125 million)
• Septic and Decentralized Systems (150 million)
• U.S. Department of Transportation/EPA/National Academy of Sciences to Study Stormwater Best Management Practices
• Water Storage, Ground Water Storage and Conveyance Projects Feasibility Study by the U.S. Department of Interior (“DOI”)
• Competitive Grant Program for Large-Scale Water Recycling and Reuse Program
• RECYCLE Act (75 million)
• U.S. DOI Assistance for Groundwater Recharge, Aquifer Storage and Water Source Substitution Projects
• PFAS
  • EPA assistance to small and disadvantaged community program to address emerging contaminants (5 billion)
  • Drinking Water State Revolving Fund for Emerging Contaminants (4 billion)
  • Clean Water State Revolving Fund addressing emerging contaminants (1 billion)
• Extends Certain Superfund Excise Taxes Through December 21, 2031
• State and Local Grants for Battery Processing (3 billion)
• Funding for County-Owned or Operated Hydroelectric Facilities (628 million)