Water Infrastructure Bill
A bill to amend the water infrastructure finance and innovation act of 2014 to authorize the interest rate to be used on a secured loan to be the interest rate for united states treasury securities of a similar maturity on the date of first disbursement of the loan and for other purposes.
Water infrastructure bill. 3021 contains the most significant changes to hydropower law enacted in more than a decade. Wrda will now move to the senate where a bill that includes corps project authorizations is one of two water infrastructure measures that the environment and public works committee cleared. The america s water infrastructure act of 2018 was signed into law oct. The house just passed a bipartisan water infrastructure bill epw chairman john barrasso r wyo said july 29.
Lawmakers also had been discussing a separate house infrastructure package that could include more dollars for water projects. The last big water reauthorization bill america s water infrastructure act of 2018 p. According to a release from the hydraulic institute the bill makes federal water infrastructure investment a top priority for the nation. The bill would reauthorize the clean water state revolving fund at 8 billion a year over five years approximately five times higher than funding that was appropriated this year and allocate 4 5 billion a year over five years for lead pipe replacement.
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