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Environmental Protection Agency's fiscal year 2003 budget: hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate
United States. Congress. Senate
Paperback. Books LLC, Reference Series 2011-10-01.
ISBN 9781234215149
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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. [Congressional Sales Office], 2003. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)51620726 Subject: Environmental protection -- United States -- Finance. Excerpt: ... 11 HITMAN Administrator W. No, I don't believe that we would have to. I have my cheat sheet here. Yes, it would be funded. The Fed-eral Government has been paying them right along. That's what I was saying initially, that the government has been paying them right along so that money was always there in the budget. This proposal is just a way of accounting for the costs so you see them differently, but the money has been there right along. Now, it has been incorporated into each Agency's budget. This is just a shift in responsibility from a central management account in OPM to each Agency, so that each Agency accounts for those dollars. We assume that responsibility. Senator J. EPA's proposed budget includes the cost of EFFORDS additional retirement and health benefits. Do you think it is wise to shift these costs from the central - that has been answered? OK. All right. What is EPA doing to help communities comply with the new ar-senic standard? HITMAN Administrator W. As I indicated when we went forward with the standard, that we were going to identify $ 20 million in the Agency's budget to help communities deal with this issue. We are doing that. We are also working with the Department of Agri-culture on some rural funds that are available. But more than that, we are looking at technology initiatives. We putting some money - as you know, there is some money in the budget for a heightened focus on technology, and part of that re-search, at least initially, the new program is going to be specifically directed at low-cost initiatives to remove arsenic from the water. So we are looking to work with those small-and mid-size compa-nies in a variety of different ways, beyond just providing dollars, but also to provide help with the resea
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