The U.S. House Appropriations Committee released its plan on June 20 to fund Interior, Environment and Related Agencies for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, which begins on October 1, 2022. The bill included funding for EPA, Department of Interior, Department of Energy, and the Fish and Wildlife Service, among other related agencies.

The White House released its newest Unified Agenda on June 21, listing the status and expected timing for its regulatory actions at all federal agencies. ​

NACWA submitted comments on June 21 supporting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) action to require that mail-back envelopes be dispensed with opioid pain medications. The envelopes would provide patients a safe, convenient method for disposing of unused medications.

NACWA submitted a letter June 16 asking EPA Region 8 to extend Denver Water’s Lead Reduction Program for its full 15-year term.

EPA’s Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center is hosting a webinar on July 13 for communities to learn more about how Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funding can improve water and wastewater infrastructure.

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.