States See EPA Green Infrastructure SRF Guide As Alternative To Mandates

摘要

State infrastructure officials are welcoming EPA's plan to craft additional guidance on methods for funding green infrastructure through the clean water state revolving fund (CWSRF) as a signal that the agency will not seek to impose new binding requirements on states' use of the funds, which states have warned would be counterproductive. "States have instituted a lot of green infrastructure projects over the years and are pretty familiar with how it works, and have gotten a sense of what works and what doesn't. There is a sense that it would not be useful for EPA to set out national mandates for how to fund these projects, because every state is different," says a source at the Council of Infrastructure Financing Authorities (CIFA), which represents states' revolving fund managers.