Kopocis Assures Critics EPA Remains Committed To Public Water Funding

摘要

EPA's de facto water chief Ken Kopocis is assuring critics of the agency's new water infrastructure funding initiatives that EPA remains committed to existing public funding mechanisms, telling state officials that a new water finance center will focus on more than bringing in private sector dollars for projects and that a new loan program would not supplant the state revolving funds (SRF). "This center is to explore innovative new ways of providing financing. I know when people hear that they think public-private partnerships (P3s). That is one way to bring money to the table, but it's not the only way," Kopocis told members of the water committee at the Environmental Council of the States' (ECOS) spring meeting in Washington, D.C., March 16.