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APRIL/MAY 2014
Inside
Integrated Planning Gets a
Boost from EPA............................. 2
NACWA Index Released,
Service Charge Increases
Again Outpace Inflation ................ 2
NACWA/AMWA Host
Water Resilience Summit............... 3
Inaugural Water Week
Brings Hundreds to DC................. 4
Springtime Active in
Regulatory Arena........................... 5
New Advocacy Tools on
Enforcement Issues........................ 6
Clean Water Legal Issues............... 6
Utility of the Future Focused
Delegations Attends SIWW........... 7
DC Water’s General Manager, George Hawkins
(pictured), will join Ken Rubin, Managing Director with
Rubin Mallows Worldwide, for the keynote address at
NACWA’s 2014 Summer Conference &
44th Annual Meeting, Executive Utility
Leadership . . . Today & Tomorrow, in July.
F
ollowing passage in both the House of Representatives and Senate, President Obama signed the
Water Resources Reform&Development Act
(WRRDA) into law on June 10. The legislation, which
reauthorizes flood control projects around the country, includes a major overhaul to the Clean
Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) program. The changes to the CWSRF were the result of
intense advocacy by NACWA and the Water Infrastructure Network (WIN), urging Congress to demon-
strate its commitment to the CWSRF as a core investment tool for municipal wastewater agencies.
Change in Loan Repayment Offers Benefits to Utilities Nationwide
Modifications to the CWSRF include: 1) extending the CWSRF loan repayment period to up to 30 years;
2) codifying additional subsidization provisions enabling economically distressed communities to receive
more affordable financing; 3) incentivizing investments in energy efficiency, water efficiency and reuse;
4) incentivizing partnerships between municipal wastewater utilities and upstream property owners to
collaboratively tackle non-point source pollution and improve water quality; and, 5) incentivizing waste-
water utilities to undertake practices to ensure increased resiliency against man-made and/or natural
disasters.
These changes are very much aligned with the Association’s collaborative
Water Resources Utility of the
Future
(UOTF) initiative – recognizing the changing wastewater sector landscape and encourage greater
investment in more sustainable infrastructure to help communities better – and more affordably – man-
age their clean water needs. The new CWSRF provisions also mirror many of the ideas NACWA is pro-
posing in its
(TIRRF) legislative proposal, which expands
WRRDA Signed Into Law, Overhauls
Clean Water SRF in Line with
Utility of the Future Priorities
Utility Leaders “Telling the
Modern Utility’s Story” to
Headline Conference
A
keynote address featuring a new NACWA paper,
Telling the
Modern Utility’s Story
, will focus on the contributions clean wa-
ter utilities make to the social, economic and environmental
well-being of their communities will kick-off the Association’s
in Portland, Oregon,
July 13-16. Continuing the ongoing dialogue from recent NACWA con-
ferences, clean water agency leaders from across the country will gather
in Portland this July to discuss Executive Utility Leadership…Today &
Tomorrow.
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Commitment to America’s Waters
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