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State Media Associations Letter on FY 2025 Funding

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Funding cuts below Fiscal Year 2024 levels will undermine the protections our agencies provide to the prosperity and health of people across the country. Appropriated funding that adequately accounts for new and historic environmental law mandates is critical for state and local agency budgets and ensuring the balance of cooperative federalism. The complexity of today’s environmental challenges and the opportunities for American leadership in a transforming economy requires robust state/federal partnership to ensure reasonable, balanced, effective, and efficient strategies for environmental protection. We rely on Congress to support that partnership by sustaining the funding and resources that give our agencies what they need to assure Americans of the cleanest air, water and land.

Coalition Letters Urges Full Funding of the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds

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CIFA organized a coalition of 37 national and state organizations to urge Congress to fully fund the Clean Water and Drinking Water SRFs at congressionally authorized levels of $3.25 billion for fiscal years 2025 and 2026. Read the letter. The coalition also urged EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to support full funding of the SRFs. Read the letter.

ACWA Letter to Trump Transition Team

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The Association of Clean Water Administrators (hereinafter “ACWA” or the “states”) is the independent, nonpartisan, national organization of state, interstate, and territorial water program managers, who on a daily basis implement the water quality programs of the Clean Water Act (“CWA”). ACWA is a nationally recognized organization whose agenda and mission are set by a Board of Directors and leadership which are composed entirely of state/interstate water quality program administrators and managers. ACWA is uniquely positioned as a critical resource to EPA as ACWA can quickly and efficiently facilitate feedback from its members, the nation’s experts on implementing the CWA. Because the states, largely, implement CWA regulations and policies, proposed changes to applicable EPA regulations and policies should be developed in collaboration with the states. The complexity of today’s water quality issues requires effective collaboration to ensure reasonable, balanced, and effective strategies for water quality improvement.

ACWA Comments On Revised Definition of “Waters of the United States”

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As the agencies proceed with this process to revise WOTUS and work to create a durable rule the states remind the agencies of several foundational principles that must be adhered to. (1) respect the role of the states as co-regulators and provide early, continuous, and meaningful opportunities for dialogue and input as any new rule is developed; (2) respect and follow the science though balanced within the limitations of statute and judicial precedent; (3) recognize the geographic, geologic, climatic, hydrologic, and leadership diversity among states and craft a definition that provides clarity but also flexibility for state implementers; (4) prepare to provide the states, well in advance, with technical assistance, tools, and trainings to assist with implementation of any revised definition; and (5) consider a delayed effective date dependent on the significance and scope of the final rule to give state partners adequate time to revise state regulations and/or to develop new state policy to cover any changes in coverage as a result of the revised jurisdictional definition.

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