Weekly Focus

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

August 22, 2024
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...


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