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Affordability, Integrated
Planning & Funding
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NACWA built on its
Money Matters
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Smarter Investment to Advance Clean
Water™
campaign when the Associa-
tion successfully leveraged its draft
regulatory prioritization legislation,
The Water Quality Improvement &
Investment Prioritization Act,
to urge
the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) to initiate work on its
integrated planning effort.
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NACWA supported the U.S. Confer-
ence of Mayors (USCM) in their
efforts to ensure that the consider-
able flexibility in the existing Clean
Water Act (CWA) was fully available
to clean water agencies implement-
ing wet weather programs. This
important initiative served as inspi-
ration for the integrated planning
discussions which followed.
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NACWA convened a meeting
in October 2011 with key utility
representatives and EPA officials
to discuss what type of relief and
flexibility was needed and how the
Agency’s new integrated planning
initiative might help their agencies.
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NACWA wrote to and met with
senior EPA officials, including
Deputy Administrator Bob Per-
ciasepe, to highlight the principles
of its
Money Matters ... Smarter
Investment to Advance Clean Water™
campaign and encourage the
continued development of EPA’s
integrated planning framework.
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NACWA convened a workshop in
December 2011 with EPA officials
and key utility, state and environ-
mental non-governmental organiza-
tion (NGO) representatives to pro-
vide input to the Agency on the key
elements and principles of its draft
framework on integrated planning.
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NACWA testified at a December
2011 hearing, convened by the
House Transportation & Infrastruc-
ture Committee’s Water Resources
& Environment Subcommittee,
focusing on integrated planning
and innovative financing tools for
clean water infrastructure invest-
ment. In testimony, NACWA’s
President Dave Williams (East
Bay Municipal Utility District,
CA) called for EPA to finalize an
integrated planning approach that
would grant cities added flexibility
to prioritize resources and invest
community dollars more effectively.
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NACWA testified before the House
Transportation & Infrastructure
Committee’s Water Resources &
Environment Subcommittee at a
follow-up to its December 2011
hearing on EPA’s newly-released
integrated planning framework.
George Hawkins, Chair of NACWA’s
Money Matters Task Force (DC
Water), applauded the integrated
planning framework in his testi-
mony, but also outlined additional
steps Congress and EPA should
take to ensure the framework’s
approach is widely beneficial.
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