Municipalities will be allowed to use federal infrastructure loans combined with tax-exempt municipal bonds to finance upgrades and expansions to drinking water and wastewater utilities under a legislative fix agreed upon by House and Senate conferees to the multi-year surface transportation authorization bill. The compromise language reached Dec. 1 in the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (H.R. 22) would strike the paragraph in the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (Pub. L. No. 113-121) that barred cities from combining the two financing mechanisms.
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机译：根据众议院和参议院参议员就多年地面运输授权法案商定的立法修正案，将允许市政当局使用联邦基础设施贷款与免税市政债券相结合，为饮用水和废水处理设施的升级改造提供资金。 12月1日在《固定美国地面运输（FAST）法案》（HR 22）中达成的折衷用语会触及2014年《水资源改革与发展法案》（P. L. 113-121）中禁止城市进入结合两种融资机制。
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