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Environmental Protection Agency's fiscal year 2004 budget: hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate
United States. Congress. Senate
Paperback. Books LLC, Reference Series 2011-10-02.
ISBN 9781234257767
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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2004. OCLC Number: ocm54464350 Subject: Environmental protection -- United States -- Finance. Excerpt: ... 11 In addition, the President's budget supports the Administration's Clear Skies proposals. Clear Skies, which would require mandatory reduction in power plant emission of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and mercury by 70 percent, is the President's most important envi-ronmental legislative initiative this year. I look forward to working with the committee to move Clear Skies legislation through to the President's desk. To promote purer water, the President's budget places a strong emphasis on our core water programs which have proven so suc-cessful over the years. We propose to increase spending on those programs by $ 55 million, for a total of $ 470 million. This includes $ 20 million in the Clean Water Section 106 grants and $ 12 million for Public Water System Supervision grants to our non-Federal partners. Our proposed budget also includes a $ 5 million increase in grants to help State, local, and tribal governments protect wetlands and $ 20 million to again fund the program we began last year to help advance watershed protection efforts in a number of additional threatened watersheds around the Nation. This budget also seeks $ 850 million for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, which is less than we requested last year, as Sen-ator Jeffords has pointed out. However, the Administration is com-mitted to financing the Clean Water SRF at this level through 2011, 6 years beyond any previous commitment. This means the long-term revolving level of the fund will be at $ 2.8 billion, a 40 percent increase over the $ 2 billion commitment that had been made in the last Administration, although I will note that there was no commitment made in the enabling legislation that created this. We also propose to fund the Drinking Water SRF at $ 850 million a year through 2018
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