Under Part 53, if approved by the DEQ, municipalities may receive assistance from the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund for a sewage treatment works project, a stormwater treatment project, and/or a nonpoint source project. Each year the DEQ must develop priority lists for these projects, based on project plans submitted by municipalities. If a project is a sewage treatment works project or a stormwater treatment project, the priority lists must be based on the following criteria: the severity of the water pollution problem; the population to be served by the project; the dilution ratio existing between the discharge volume and the receiving stream; and a determination of whether a project is or was necessary to comply with an order, permit, or other document issued by the DEQ or entered as part of an action brought by the State against a municipality. Under the bill, this determination would pertain to compliance with an enforceable schedule for addressing a municipality's sewage-related water pollution problems as described above.