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12/26/08 11:02 AM

#15528 RE: eye_ater #15521

A MUST READ: Our new incoming administration's Water agencies' spending agenda for Obama
By AWWA
Dec 11, 2008


http://www.waterandwastewater.com/www_services/news_center/publish/article_001568.shtml


"- the Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund and USDA Rural Water Loan and Grant programs to be funded at a minimum of $1 billion annually;
- federal assistance programs to help utilities become economically self-sustaining; and
- new mechanisms for innovative approaches to capital, such as “some form of infrastructure bank.”

It flatly rejects “any proposal” of a federal water tax, charge, or levy against either utilities or customers.

On the standards front, the report advocates “the deliberative, science-based” processes of the Safe Drinking Water Act and calls for the administration to “reject legislative prescriptions for decisions that should be made through the regulatory process.”