Over the past several years, the Operations Division of the City of Springfield’s Development and Public Works Department (DPW), working with the Community Development Division, developed and implemented a Capacity, Management, Operations, and Maintenance (CMOM) program. Springfield is using the CMOM program to guide its sustainable and responsible stewardship of the community’s wastewater collection system.

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a prepublication notice establishing final drinking water health advisories for two PFAS chemicals, GenX and PFBS, and setting interim advisories that significantly lower the existing health advisory levels for PFOA and PFOS.

With the rising number of legislative and regulatory developments at the state and federal levels related to PFAS, all three biosolids management methods available to clean water utilities are facing unprecedented pressure.

This week, NACWA organized and submitted a letter to Congressional Committees, leadership, and every individual member office underscoring the broad support that exists for fully funding water programs.

This week NACWA and several public utility member representatives met with the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to discuss the potential significant costs that could be imposed on clean water utilities pursuant to potential designations of PFOS and PFOA as CERCLA hazardous substances, which is currently being considered by EPA.

On Tuesday, June 15, EPA released its draft waiver from Build America, Buy America (BABA) requirements for the State Revolving Fund (SRF) programs.

On June 13, U.S. EPA announced the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) notices of funding availability for the agency’s Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program and the State Infrastructure Financing Authority WIFIA (SWIFIA) program. EPA has $5.5 billion in WIFIA financing and an additional $1 billion for the SWIFIA program available for FY22.

Last week, the House overwhelmingly passed their version of the Water Resources Development Act of 2022, H.R. 7776, placing Congress on track to conclude by fall this biennial piece of legislation.

NACWA joined in the River Network’s annual River Rally conference in Washington, DC this month as both presenter and sponsor, sharing the municipal clean water utility perspective at a gathering of the nation’s leading river advocacy organizations.