"- 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.”