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NACWA actively represented its
members at all of the EPA public
workshops on integrated plan-
ning and, at the request of EPA,
arranged for two member agency
utilities to provide their perspec-
tives at facilitated discussions
during each of the workshops.
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NACWA worked closely with its
Money Matters Task Force to file
comments on EPA’s draft integrated
planning framework. The Asso-
ciation also met with EPA officials
several times during the spring and
early summer of 2012 to discuss the
content of the final framework and
early utility implementation efforts.
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NACWA-advocated provisions were
included in the February 2012 intro-
duction, by Senator Sherrod Brown,
of
The Clean Water Affordability Act of
2012 (S. 2094).
The Association-sup-
ported provisions ensure that EPA’s
integrated planning approach pro-
vides as much benefit as possible to
communities; revamps the Agency’s
approach to affordability assess-
ments; and, provides federal grants
for wet weather control projects.
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NACWA conceptualized, and set in
motion, plans for regional work-
shops on integrated planning – pro-
viding utilities with the opportunity
to explore the potential benefits of
integrated planning approaches,
and helping to identify tools that
may be needed to maximize the
usefulness of the framework.
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NACWA, as part of a coalition of
water sector groups, worked actively
to urge Congress to maintain fund-
ing for the Fiscal Year 2013 Clean
Water State Revolving Fund (CWS-
RF) and Safe Drinking Water State
Revolving Fund (SDWSRF) at the
Fiscal Year 2012 levels of $1,468 mil-
lion and $919 million, respectively.
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NACWA supported and helped
secure important sponsors for
Representative Tim Bishop’s
Water
Quality Protection & Job Creation
Act of 2011
(H.R. 3145), a bill to
provide $15 billion over five years
for investments in water infrastruc-
ture projects – including the Water
Infrastructure Financing Innovations
Authority (WIFIA) – and to estab-
lish a $10 billion annual, long-term
trust fund to ensure that the critical
federal funding partnership with
communities remains intact.
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NACWA supported Representative
Earl Blumenauer’s introduction of
The Water Protection & Reinvestment
Act,
a bill to establish a federal
trust fund for investments in clean
water infrastructure. The bill would
provide $9 billion annually for clean
water investments, much of it going
to bolster the CWSRF program, and
is consistent with the Association’s
call for a dedicated funding source
for clean water infrastructure.
projects supported by NACWA’s Targeted Action Fund