Backers Of New EPA Water Loan Plan Settle For Politically Feasible Pilot

摘要

Unable to resolve their differences with states, municipal water officials say that Congress will not create the permanent, low-interest EPA loan program they are seeking to fund large water infrastructure projects and are settling instead for a pilot project that the Senate is slated to approve as soon as this week in a bill funding the Army Corps of Engineers. "I think the political reality is, it's going to be a pilot project," says one drinking water sector source.