Highway Bill Uncertainty Prompts Questions On Fate Of Water Funding Fix

With the fate of a sweeping transportation infrastructure authorization bill uncertain, water industry groups are losing optimism that their effort to remove a current ban on the use of tax-exempt financing for projects under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) will be successful this year. The water industry groups had been looking to a sweeping, must-pass transportation bill to advance their efforts to scrap WIFIA's prohibition on using tax-exempt funding to meet matching fund requirements for water infrastructure...