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WATER POLLUTION: EPA Touts Spending on Wastewater Projects
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David Loos, E&ENews PM reporter
U.S. EPA has invested nearly $53 billion in the Clean Water
State Revolving Fund over the past 18 years, according to the agency's annual
report on the loan program released.
The wastewater infrastructure program faces another round of proposed budget
cuts this year, and industry officials called on EPA today to stay involved in
the program.
"I don't want to detract anything from the successes of the program, but water
infrastructure is going to be in a lot of trouble if the government doesn't want
to stay involved long term," said Adam Krantz, spokesman for the National
Association of Clean Water Agencies, an industry group. Krantz said he is
concerned that the program could be zeroed-out by 2011.
President Bush's budget request for fiscal year 2007 would cut nearly $200
million out of the CWSRF, taking funding for the program from $887 million to
$688 million. The White House has consistently cut funding for the program since
it reached a record $1.35 billion in fiscal year 2004.
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