OMB Faces Competing Claims Over LCRI’s Costs As Key Deadline Looms

The White House is facing competing claims from water utilities and environmentalists over the expected costs of EPA’s high-profile rule setting a 10-year schedule for utilities to replace 100 percent of lead service lines (LSLs), as officials scramble to complete the rule, a key priority for Vice President Kamala Harris, by a looming Oct. 16 deadline. EPA’s final lead and copper rule improvements (LCRI) is aimed at strengthening the Trump administration’s lead and copper rule revisions (LCRR), which is slated...