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June 18, 2019
The US House of Representatives began floor consideration last week of the first set of Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) funding bills with several key agencies addressed in this first package, including the Department on Energy (DOE) and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
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June 18, 2019
NACWA met with senior EPA Office of Water and Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance staff again last week to discuss compliance issues for combined sewer overflow (CSO) communities that reach the end of their long-term control plans (LTCPs).
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June 18, 2019
After months of consideration and bipartisan negotiation, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee released final text of a comprehensive piece of legislation late last week to respond to growing concerns about PFAS.
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June 18, 2019
NACWA hosted the second Hot Topics in Clean Water Law Webinar of the year on June 11, focusing on PFAS-centric issues happening federally in the legislative, regulatory, and legal space.
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June 18, 2019
NACWA’s Small & Mid-Size Utility Workgroup met on June 12 to discuss the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF), and the Association’s efforts to not only advocate for funding on behalf of its members, but also for a more streamlined process for utilizing that federal funds.
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June 14, 2019
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June 14, 2019
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June 14, 2019
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June 14, 2019
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June 14, 2019
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June 14, 2019
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June 14, 2019
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June 14, 2019
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June 12, 2019
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June 12, 2019
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June 12, 2019
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June 12, 2019
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June 11, 2019
NACWA and the WateReuse Association submitted comments on June 7 to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the application of the Clean Water Act (CWA) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program to the release of pollutants that originate from a point source, but are conveyed to navigable waters by a nonpoint source such as groundwater [84 Fed. Reg. 16810 (Apr. 23, 2019)].
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June 11, 2019
President Trump signed a long-awaited legislative package (H.R. 2157) on June 6, which provides $19.1 Billion in supplemental disaster relief to states and communities impacted by recent natural disasters. These include Hurricanes Florence and Michael, Typhoon Yutu, and wildfires and earthquakes that occurred in 2018.
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June 11, 2019
NACWA, along with the Water Environment Federation, the American Water Works Association, and the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, met with various individuals representing the solid waste and recycling sectors on June 4 in an effort to foster a continued dialogue that public wastewater treatment facilities and landfills are passive receivers, and not sources, of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).