EPA Receives 14 New Requests for WIFIA 2020 Financing of Groundwater Projects

摘要

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency received 67 letters of interest as of November 19,2020 in response to the agency's 2020 Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) Notice of Funding Availability. A total of $9.2 billion was requested in 2020-the largest amount ever requested through the WIFIA program. Fourteen of the 67 proposed projects were for groundwater supply or ground-water-related, including for managed aquifer recharge. Some proposals are sets of multiple projects.