News EPA Starts Strategic Planning Process for FY 2022-2026 This week EPA held a meeting with governmental organizations, such as NGA, ACWA, ASDWA, ECOS, USCM and NACO, where they announced… Read More »
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ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 27 (Week of July 19, 2021)
News EPA’s Integrated Planning Report to Congress On July 12, 2021, the U.S. EPA provided a “Report to Congress on Integrated Plans to Comply with the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 20 (Week of May 31, 2021)
News EPA Publishes NWQI Practitioners Guide In collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), EPA has published Planning and Implementing Agricultural Water Quality Projects Through… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 18 (Week of May 17, 2021)
News EPA Finalizes Analytical Methods Update Rule This week EPA finalized and published the Clean Water Act Methods Update Rule for the Analysis of Effluent. One of EPA’s responsibilities is… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 17 (Week of May 10, 2021)
News EPA Rescinds Rule on Agency Guidance Documents EPA issued a final rule rescinding the previous Administration’s rule Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents, in accordance with… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 16 (Week of May 3, 2021)
News EPA Releases Tools to Help Reduce Nutrients in Water EPA released new tools and information that states, territories, and authorized Tribes can use to help protect people, animals, and… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 13 (Week of April 12, 2021)
News Water Associations Urge Congress to Increase Infrastructure & State Program Funding ACWA, along with ASDWA, ECOS, WSWC and CIFA, sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging Congress to significantly… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 12 (Week of April 5, 2021)
News President Biden’s FY 2022 Discretionary Funding Request Please see the President’s “skinny” budget request. The discretionary request proposes $769 billion in non-defense discretionary funding in FY 2022, a 16%… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 10 (Week of March 22, 2021)
News Senate EPW Approves Mallory and McCabe This week, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) voted approval of Brenda Mallory to head the White House Council on Environmental… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 9 (Week of March 8, 2021)
News Bipartisan Vote to Confirm Regan as EPA Administrator This week, the Senate voted 66-34 to confirm Michael Regan as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Regan hails from… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 8 (Week of March 1, 2021)
News EPA Publishes Flyers Summarizing Bioassessment Program Reviews and the BCG Online EPA has posted online two new flyers that summarize key information found in two longer, previously published EPA… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 7 (Week of Feb. 22, 2021)
News EPA WSD Releases Vaccination Information for Water & Wastewater Workers The EPA Water Security Division (WSD) released an updated website with Center for Disease Control (CDC) vaccination information for… Read More »
