President Trump's intention to drastically cut the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and other departments and agencies, could have a major impact on the agency's two key water infrastructure programs, the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (SRFs). Early leaks of the president's budget, parts of which were expected to be publicly released in mid-March, reported that the EPA's grant programs, of which the SRFs are a part, would be cut by 30 percent. That would certainly be intended for fiscal year 2018, which begins Oct. 1, 2017. It might even apply to the current 2017 fiscal year, for which Congress has not finalized appropriations. The fiscal 2017 budget has been the subject of continuing resolutions which set every agency and department's budget at fiscal 2016 levels. Those levels are: $1.39 billion for the CWSRF and $863 million for the DWSRF.
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