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Drinking water and wastewater utility projects focused on rehabilitating and replacing aging infrastructure or enhancing physical security would be eligible for federal State Revolving Fund (SRF) loans under legislation approved last week by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The bill would authorize spending nearly $15 billion on the Drinking Water SRF and almost $20 billion on the Clean Water SRF over the next five years. Reforms in the bill would expand the eligible uses of SRF funds to include upgrading aging treatment, storage or distribution facilities, as well as costs associated with security upgrades.
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A bill to require timely public reporting of sewer overflows was approved by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee last week. The bill, which was amended to mirror the language of a similar House bill passed in June, would impose new public notification rules on wastewater systems when they release untreated sewage into the environment. During markup, the committee accepted an amendment by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) to clarify that wastewater systems will not be held liable for monitoring or reporting overflows from unconnected satellite systems, which was a concern raised by wastewater utilities following the House’s approval of its bill in June.
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Among other things the Great Lakes Collaboration Act provides the following:
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to: (1) authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide funding for wastewater assistance to certain municipalities and small publicly-owned treatment works; (2) authorize states to provide additional subsidization to benefit certain municipalities or state agencies that already receive assistance from the water pollution control revolving fund or to implement certain alternative techniques.
Establishes: (1) the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force, as established by Executive Order 13340, as a task force within EPA; (2) a Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Executive Committee to hold meetings and make recommendations and reports on Great Lakes restoration goals and progress; and (3) the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration to develop a restoration and protection strategy for use in Great Lakes program implementation and funding decisions, to serve as a forum for addressing regional issues relating to ecosystem restoration and protection of the Great Lakes, and to establish an oversight forum to coordinate and enhance implementation of Great Lakes programs.
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Among other things the Water Quality Financing Act of 2007 provides the following:
Expands the types of projects and activities eligible for assistance through SRFs to include: (1) the implementation of lake protection projects under the Clean Lakes Program; (2) the repair or replacement of decentralized wastewater treatment systems that treat domestic sewage; (3) measures to manage, reduce, treat, or reuse municipal stormwater runoff; (4) measures to reduce the demand for POTW capacity through water conservation, efficiency, or reuse; (5) increased security measures at POTWs; and (6) the development and implementation of watershed pilot projects.
Authorizes states to extend the repayment period for an SRF loan from the current limit of 20 years to the lesser of 30 years or the design life of the project to be financed with the proceeds.
Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on: (1) the funding mechanisms and sources available to establish a Clean Water Trust Fund, including an analysis of potential sources that can be efficiently collected, are broad based, are related to water quality, and that support the annual funding levels authorized; and (2) the funding mechanisms and sources potentially available for wastewater infrastructure and other water pollution control activities under the Clean Water Act, including an analysis of funding and investment mechanisms and revenue sources from other potential supplemental or alternative sources that could be used to fund such activities.
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