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Water Infrastructure Improvement Act
(Sec. 3) This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to allow municipalities to develop a plan that integrates wastewater and stormwater management.
A permit for a municipal discharge under the national pollutant discharge elimination system that incorporates an integrated plan may integrate all requirements under the Act addressed in the plan, such as requirements relating to combined sewer overflows, sanitary sewer collection systems, and total maximum daily loads. A plan that is incorporated into a permit may include the implementation of green infrastructure and projects to reclaim, recycle, or reuse water. Green infrastructure includes measures that mimic natural processes to store, reuse, or reduce stormwater.
Those permits may include a schedule of compliance that allows actions for meeting water quality-based effluent limitations to be implemented over more than one permit term if the compliance schedules are authorized by state water quality standards.
A municipality under an administrative order or settlement agreement may request a modification of the order or settlement based on the municipality's integrated plan.
The EPA must report on each integrated plan developed and implemented through a permit, order, or judicial consent decree since June 5, 2012, including a description of the control measures, levels of control, estimated costs, and compliance schedules for the requirements implemented through such a plan.
(Sec. 4) The bill establishes an Office of the Municipal Ombudsman in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide: (1) technical assistance to municipalities seeking to comply with the Clean Water Act, and (2) information to the EPA to ensure that agency policies are implemented by all EPA offices.
(Sec. 5) The EPA must promote the use of green infrastructure.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 7279 as public Law on Jan 14, 2019. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Dec 19, 2018
Water Infrastructure Improvement Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
351 Yea 10 Nay 71 not voting
Crossed both parties 10 of 361 voting members broke with their own party: 10 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
432 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 7279 and vote against it. 5 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 7279 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
6 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.