WIFIA Proposal Discussed Before House Subcommittee

摘要

A proposed federal water infrastructure loan program would supplement, not replace, existing State Revolving Funds (SRFs), allowing the nation to build more infrastructure at a lower cost to consumers, according to congressional testimony from the American Water Works Association (AWWA). Speaking in the second day of hearings before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Water Resources and the Environment, David Weihrauch, a treatment plant manager for the City of Oxford, Ohio, who testified on behalf of AWWA, stressed that draft legislation to create a Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Authority (WIFIA) would make loans available for larger projects that SRFs cannot address.