The NACWA Facility & Collection System (FACS) Committee held a web meeting on April 27 to discuss blending and wet weather treatment, including recent legal developments and potential regulatory reform related to blending, which is a focus for NACWA advocacy with EPA.

NACWA’s Water Reuse Workgroup held a call April 25 to examine current legislation affecting reuse funding and financing.

Eileen J. O’Neill, Executive Director of the Water Environment Federation (WEF), and Amanda Waters, NACWA General Counsel, updated and briefed water professionals April 27 at the KY/TN Water Environment Association (WEA) 2017 Management Conference in Murfreesboro, TN.

NACWA engaged senior EPA officials on a range of policy issues in three separate meetings over the past week, advancing many of the Association’s key advocacy priorities with Agency officials.

Congress returned to Washington, DC April 24 to face a looming deadline, as the Continuing Resolution currently funding the government will expire on April 28.

EPA is scheduled to file a response May 12 in litigation challenging the Agency’s efforts to impose certain testing requirements for whole effluent toxicity (WET) on dischargers without going through the rulemaking process required by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).

NACWA submitted comments on April 24 to EPA’s recent Public Review Draft of Field-Based Methods for Developing Aquatic Life Criteria for Specific Conductivity.

NACWA will be offering a free webinar to members on May 24 at 2:00 pm ET, providing an update on the status of key Association advocacy priorities under the new Trump Administration and the new Congress.

As part of a continued effort to enhance positive networking and goodwill among government and the water sector, congressional staffers, along with NACWA staff, toured DC Water’s Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Facility—the world’s largest treatment plant of its kind—on April 21.

NACWA’s Environmental Justice Task Force discussed via conference call on April 19 the Association’s planned Environmental Justice & Community Service Compendium document.

The Michigan Water Environment Association (MWEA) released a report April 15 highlighting how Michigan clean water utilities are pursuing “Utility of the Future (UOTF)” concepts.

EPA’s Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center will host a series of webinars on stormwater finance to help communities across the country identify financial strategies to leverage and support their stormwater management programs.

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