Giving disadvantaged communities technical assistance in applying for federal infrastructure funding for drinking water systems will be among the government’s biggest challenges in distributing the money, an EPA official said Wednesday.
Many of these communities don’t know about funding they can get to repair their water systems, and they “just haven’t been ready to apply for the funds,” said Bruno Pigott, deputy assistant administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water.
The bipartisan infrastructure law signed last year dedicated more than $50 billion for drinking water and wastewater systems, lead service line replacement and streamwater contamination cleanup over the ...
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