EPA programs that received funding increases in the economic stimulus law may face tough prospects winning baseline increases in the agency's pending fiscal year 2010 budget, because supporters of other programs that failed to qualify as stimulus projects will be pushing hard for increases in those areas, sources say. State regulators, environmentalists and others argue that despite the billions of dollars in stimulus funding increases for EPA's Superfund, brownfields, and clean and drinking water state revolving loan funds (SRFs), the accounts remain massively underfunded and deserve continued boosts in FY10. However, one activist says it will be tougher for programs which received large boosts in the stimulus bill to secure increases in EPA's FY10 budget.
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