On June 22nd, the U.S. House of Representatives Majority leadership released a comprehensive infrastructure investment package, the Moving Forward Act (H.R. 2).

This week, NACWA joined with the Montana League of Cities and Towns (League) in filing its opening brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case of Upper Missouri Waterkeeper v. EPA.

NACWA is encouraging all of its public agency members to share their pandemic recovery or “Return-to-Work” plans so that we can post them on our password-protected Covid-19 Resource Webpage.

With a short turnaround for public comment, EPA published a proposal that would “increase the transparency of [its] guidance practices and improve the process used to manage EPA guidance documents” on May 22. NACWA submitted comments to the Agency earlier this week encouraging increased transparency, especially the establishment of a dedicated and easily accessible public portal that houses active guidance documents in an orderly fashion, as beneficial to the broader regulated community.

NACWA submitted comments last week on EPA Region 1’s proposed permit modifications for small municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. NACWA also submitted comments to EPA on its proposed regulatory determination—the first step of potentially regulating PFAS for drinking water systems under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).

Since the House’s passage of the Heroes Act last month , Congressional action on further COVID-19 stimulus relief has remained at a standstill as Senate Leadership continues to take a wait and see approach before proceeding on any related legislation while the U.S. economy slowly reopens.