Washingtonwatch SRF Funding Dodges Funding Bullet - This Year

摘要

A flurry of new water lntrastructure funding bills has made an appearance on Capitol Hill. They arrive as cities and counties breathe a slight sigh of relief now that Congress has set what has to be considered a reasonable - under the circumstances - funding level for the state revolving funds in fiscal 2014. Actually, fiscal 2014 started last Oct. 1. But Democratic and Republican sparring over controversial issues prevented the House and Senate from adopting a final fiscal 2014 budget until Jan. 13, 2014. That agreement included $1,448,887,000 for clean water state revolving funds and $906,896,000 for drinking water state revolving funds (SRF). Those are approximately the same amounts Congress appropriated for fiscal 2013. President Obama's proposed budget for fiscal 2014, submitted in February 2013, included a total for both funds of about $1.9 billion.