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Water interests gird for round two of MTBE safe harbor fight
Author(s) -
Scharfenaker Mark
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2004.tb10532.x
Subject(s) - hazardous waste , closing (real estate) , safer , vulnerability (computing) , wastewater , business , water security , finance , clean water act , water infrastructure , water quality , waste management , environmental planning , environmental science , computer security , environmental economics , water supply , engineering , computer science , environmental engineering , water resources , economics , ecology , biology
This article discusses several bills in the U.S. Congress, including: HR 6, a comprehensive energy policy bill that includes language concerning the controversial MTBE safe harbor, which AWWA strongly opposes; HR1560, the Water Quality Financing Act that would reauthorize and reform the Clean Water Act state revolving fund (SRF) program for wastewater utilities by closing an estimated $10 billion annual funding gap that exists between infrastructure needs and current levels of spending; HR866, the Wastewater Treatment Works Security Act that would provide $200 million in grants to underwrite 75% of the cost of developing vulnerability assessments and implementing security improvements at wastewater treatment works, up to a maximum of $150,000 per plant; and, S 994 that orders operators of nonfederal facilities that make, distribute, or use hazardous chemicals to complete vulnerability assessments and site security plans and to consider (but not require) use of safer practices such as using less hazardous substances to do the same job.