EPA Eyes WIFIA Funding Ratio Higher Than Senate Democrats' Suggestion

September 22, 2016
EPA is touting a model for supporting municipalities' water infrastructure loans under the novel Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) that it says would allow for leveraging $20 million of federal funding into $1 billion in loans -- a much higher target than the figure quoted by Senate Democrats who back the program. "According to the EPA's credit subsidy model, which has been preliminarily approved by the [White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB)], a $20 million appropriation,...


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