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Documents
ACWA 2025 Annual Meeting – Draft Agenda
ACWA 2025 Annual Meeting – Draft Agenda
2025 Clean Water Act Cross-Program Workshop – Draft Agenda
2025 Clean Water Act Cross-Program Workshop – Draft Agenda
Coalition Letter on FY 26 SRF Appropriations
ACWA joined a diverse coalition of national and local organizations urging Congressional appropriators to fully fund the CW and DW SRFs.
Waters of the United States (2025) – EPA/USACE Slide Deck – Federalism “Kick-Off” Meeting (April 3, 2025)
EPA / USACE Slide Deck From April 3, 2025 Federalism Kick-Off Meeting for “Waters of the United States”
Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations Testimony
As you begin working on Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations, the members of the Association of Clean Water Administrators (ACWA) urge you and your colleagues to robustly fund surface water programs funded through Clean Water Act (CWA) §106 State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG), the CWA § 319 programs, and the geographic programs like the Chesapeake Bay, the Long Island Sound, and the Gulf Hypoxia Task Force. As the Administration works to reorganize and downsize the federal government, robust appropriations for state programs are even more critical than ever as states consider the most efficient ways to implement the CWA and Powering the Great American Comeback Initiative.
Coalition Letter for Justification Process for State Payments
A letter to EPA urging the agency as it works to develop policies for the Executive Order Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative, the undersigned organizations… Read More »
State Media Associations Letter on FY 2025 Funding
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.
2025 State Summit on Water Reuse – Participant List
2025 State Summit on Water Reuse – Participant List
2025 Mid-Year Meeting Participant List
2025 Mid-Year Meeting Participant List
Executive Order: ENSURING LAWFUL GOVERNANCE AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY” DEREGULATORY INITIATIVE
Agency heads shall, in coordination with their DOGE Team Leads and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, initiate a process to review all regulations subject to their sole or joint jurisdiction for consistency with law and Administration policy. Within 60 days of the date of this order, agency heads shall, in consultation with the Attorney General as appropriate, identify the following classes of regulations: (i) unconstitutional regulations and regulations that raise serious constitutional difficulties, such as exceeding the scope of the power vested in the Federal Government by the Constitution; (ii) regulations that are based on unlawful delegations of legislative power; (iii) regulations that are based on anything other than the best reading of the underlying statutory authority or prohibition; (iv) regulations that implicate matters of social, political, or economic significance that are not authorized by clear statutory authority; (v) regulations that impose significant costs upon private parties that are not outweighed by public benefits; (vi) regulations that harm the national interest by significantly and unjustifiably impeding technological innovation, infrastructure development, disaster response, inflation reduction, research and development, economic development, energy production, land use, and foreign policy objectives; and (vii) regulations that impose undue burdens on small business and impede private enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Coalition Letters Urges Full Funding of the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds
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.