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House Panel Endorses Cutting Budget for Sewer Loan Program
May 5 -- A House subcommittee has released a fiscal year 2007
budget proposal for the Environmental Protection Agency that includes reducing
new funds for a revolving loan program to pay for upgrading the nation´s sewer
systems.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related
Agencies on May 4 endorsed a budget put forth by the Bush administration that
would trim funding for the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Program from the
current $887 million to $688 million.
"These cuts remain untenable given studies by EPA, the Congressional Budget
Office, the Government Accountability Office and the Water Infrastructure
Network estimating a water infrastructure funding gap exceeding $300 billion
over the next 20 years," the National Association of Clean Water Agencies said
in a statement released by spokesman Adam Krantz.
NACWA wants full funding maintained for the revolving loan fund and is calling
for passage of the Clean Water Trust Act of 2005, which would create a clean
water trust fund ensuring a source of future funding for upgrading the nation´s
sewer systems.
NACWA is a national trade association representing the nation´s publicly owned
wastewater treatment utilities.