EPA Issues Long-Awaited Water Affordability Guidance For Municipalities

November 25, 2014
EPA has issued its long-awaited framework for assessing a municipality’s ability to pay for infrastructure upgrades needed to comply with Clean Water Act (CWA) mandates, which includes a set of new factors enforcement officials may consider in negotiating compliance schedules for permits and consent decrees, such as bankruptcies, natural disasters and other qualitative factors agency advisers urged earlier this year. The “ Financial Capability Assessment Framework ,” dated Nov. 24, is intended to float a broader set of considerations of...


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