People who got stuck with the Environmental Protection Agency’s mess downstream of the Gold King Mine spill in southwest Colorado in 2015 are going to be getting some federal money if the president signs the Water Infrastructure Improvements Act for the Nation. It was passed last Thursday by the U.S. House.

The $10.3 billion bill invests in harbor dredging, cleaning up water pollution in Flint, Mich., lock-and-dam work on the Ohio River and restoration of the Everglades,  among 30  projects sought by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Colorado Sens. Cory Gardner of Yuma and Michael Bennet of Denver worked with Senate counterparts in Utah, Arizona and  New Mexico to include $20 million to reimburse local governments along the Animas River and the state of Colorado, as well as the Navajo Nation and state of New Mexico. The bill appropriates $4 million a year  for five  years starting in 2017.

The 3-million gallon spill was an embarrassment to the federal government. Contractors hired by the EPA accidentally breached heavily polluted water held inside a gold mine abandoned in 1923, sending a stew of heavy metals and toxins into a tributary to the Las Animas River, which turned yellow from the oxidized iron released from the mine.

“I have worked with my colleagues in the Senate to ensure this language is a part of the final legislation and I’m proud we were able to secure its inclusion in the final bill,” Gardner said in a statement. “I look forward to the president signing this legislation into law and finally bringing relief to the states, tribes, and local governments that have been at a financial loss because of the EPA’s lack of accountability.”

The bill passed the House 235-180 Thursday. All four of Colorado’s Republican representatives voted for it, while all three Democrats opposed it. It now goes to the Senate for deliberations.

U.S. Rep Scott Tipton of Cortez said he had been working since the spill to “make sure wronged parties are made whole and affected communities are compensated appropriately.”

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck of Windsor called the bill a frugal investment in American maritime transit.

“Growing a bushel of Colorado corn doesn’t do anyone much good if you can’t get that corn to the right market,” he said.

Gardner and Tipton said they expect the legislation to each the president’s desk by the end of the year.