EPA Grappling With Dozens Of New Water Programs But With Few Funds

December 7, 2018
EPA is struggling to implement 32 new wastewater and drinking water mandates included in the recently enacted water resources development law even though some of the requirements -- such as measures addressing the cost of replacing lead service lines -- lack new funding, officials told their drinking water advisers Dec. 6. Speaking at the annual meeting of the agency's National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC) in Washington, D.C., EPA water chief David Ross suggested that the office will have to...


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