Utilities Aim For Revised EPA Guidance On Affordability, Enforcement

摘要

Water utilities faced with shrunken state budgets and increasing EPA enforcement efforts are planning to push the agency to provide better guidance on affordability and financial capability issues at the municipal level, sources following the issue say, including seeking to have language requiring the agency to do so included in the agency's 2011 appropriations bill.rnWastewater and drinking water utilities say they face serious questions about what they are financially capable of doing, and there is little information from EPA on how to deal with limited state funding and the resulting pressure on municipalities to increase consumers' bills to pay for infrastructure improvements.