ASSISTANCE FOR DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES.

SEC. 403. ASSISTANCE FOR DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES. Section 119 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1269) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (f); and (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following: “(e) Assistance to Distressed Communities.— “(1) Eligible communities.—For the purposes of this subsection, a distressed community is any community that meets affordability criteria established by the State in which the community is located, if such criteria are developed after public review and comment. “(2) Priority.—In making assistance available under this section for the upgrading of wastewater treatment facilities, the Administrator may give priority to a distressed community.”.