Water Resources Technical Assistance Review Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires GAO to review EPA clean water technical assistance programs and requires EPA to submit follow-up plans responding to GAO recommendations.
Who Benefits and How
States, tribes, local governments, and communities seeking water infrastructure technical assistance may benefit from a more transparent and better coordinated assistance system.
Who Bears the Burden and How
GAO and EPA must conduct a broad review, produce findings, and prepare follow-up implementation plans for several years.
Key Provisions
- Requires GAO to initiate a comprehensive review of EPA clean water technical assistance within one year.
- Specifies detailed review topics, including provider selection, duplication, coordination, distressed-community needs, and WaterTA outcomes.
- Requires EPA to submit annual plans for five years describing actions taken in response to GAO recommendations.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires GAO to review EPA clean water technical assistance programs and requires EPA to submit follow-up plans responding to GAO recommendations.
Key Policy Areas
Environment, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Requires GAO to review EPA clean water technical assistance programs and requires EPA to submit follow-up plans responding to GAO recommendations.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Communities seeking clean water technical assistance
- States, tribes, and local governments relying on EPA support
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Environmental Protection Agency
- Government Accountability Office
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Jon Husted
R-OH | Primary Sponsor
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Husted (for himself and Mr. Schiff) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Communities seeking clean water infrastructure assistance
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the administrator"
- → Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
- "the comptroller general"
- → Comptroller General of the United States
We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.
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