Today, the Water Program Portal is pleased to release five fact sheets. Three focus on specific states where federal funding — through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) — is driving improvement of water systems. The other two narrow in on two topics of federal funding focus — the State Revolving Loan Funds (SRFs) and fish passages — that were bolstered by funding infusions from IIJA and IRA.
States Receiving Federal Funding Fact Sheets
These fact sheets discuss the water-related IIJA and IRA funding received by Montana, North Carolina, and Utah. They explore a set of major investments affecting critical water issues in each state, covering their backgrounds, specific projects and outcomes, and the federal programs that funded that work. The fact sheets also identify some ongoing risks to funding availability and future funding potential for the states.
Topic Area Fact Sheets
IIJA provided a new $2.2 billion to address built infrastructure aiding fish passage. The bulk of this funding has been awarded, and most of it to states in the West. The fact sheet breaks down where funding has been awarded and via what programs, and dives into project highlights in the states of Montana and Washington.
The SRF fact sheet breaks down the institution of these programs, what they have accomplished, and how additional funding pots from IIJA expand the programs’ reaches. In total, an additional $43 billion was provided by IIJA to the SRFs from fiscal years 2022 through 2026, feeding funding into local drinking water and wastewater systems. Additionally, IIJA newly introduces billions for lead service line replacement and hundreds of millions to address emerging contaminants such as PFAS. State-by-state funding breakdowns are provided in the fact sheet, as well as estimations of how much of state water systems’ needs are addressed by this new funding.
Looking for more information on the SRFs? Earlier this year, the Water Program Portal published 50 state-specific fact sheets, examining the impacts of the SRFs in each jurisdiction. These fact sheets and the five new fact sheets are all published on the Water Program Portal’s Fact Sheets page, under Analysis. Reach out to [email protected] for questions about these fact sheets.
