Sen. Booker Plans To Include Water Trust Fund Provision In 2016 WRDA

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is planning to include language in a 2016 Army Corps of Engineers authorization bill that would create a voluntarily-financed federal trust fund for financing repair of aging water infrastructure, arguing that the measure would fill gaps left after EPA's state revolving funds (SRFs) are exhausted. During a Feb. 10 Senate Environment & Public Works Committee (EPW) hearing on crafting the 2016 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), a biennial Army Corps of Engineers authorization bill, Booker announced...