{"id":85484,"date":"2017-03-22T07:21:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T12:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=85484"},"modified":"2017-03-22T07:21:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T12:21:43","slug":"latta-introduces-water-infrastructure-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/03\/22\/latta-introduces-water-infrastructure-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta introduces water infrastructure bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0&#8212;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) has\u00a0reintroduced legislation, the Drinking\u00a0Water\u00a0Affordability Act, to help public water systems improve infrastructure and ensure safer drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation provides increased\u00a0flexibility\u00a0to state and local governments to meet their specific needs, develops cost-efficient ways to protect drinking water, and ensures funds are utilized efficiently and effectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important\u00a0that we develop a long-term approach to improving our\u00a0nation\u2019s drinking water needs that\u00a0empowers communities to fix and improve water infrastructure,\u201d said Latta. \u201cThis legislation improves the ability for\u00a0states and local governments to proceed with drinking water projects by\u00a0removing duplicitous federal requirements and providing more flexibility for repayment of federal funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, the bill better protects ratepayers in Ohio and across the country from increasing costs\u00a0while supporting the\u00a0needed efforts to provide safer drinking water for local communities,\u201d\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Drinking Water Affordability Act would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide increased flexibility for the repayment of federal loans for states and local communities that use the funds to finance clean drinking water infrastructure projects<\/li>\n<li>Cut burdensome red tape by removing duplicative reporting and paperwork requirements when state standards are equally stringent &#8212; or more so &#8212; than federal standards<\/li>\n<li>Helps disadvantaged communities better finance their infrastructure through the use of federal funding<\/li>\n<li>Encourages the development of a long-term strategy to addressing drinking water issues and the economic barriers that make it difficult for communities to rehabilitate and replace their drinking water infrastructure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Latta serves on the Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over drinking water policy and has previously authored legislation, the Drinking Water Protection Act, to create a strategic plan to address algal toxins in drinking water. That legislation was <a href=\"http:\/\/latta.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398048\">signed into law<\/a> last Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) has\u00a0reintroduced legislation, the Drinking\u00a0Water\u00a0Affordability Act, to help public water systems improve infrastructure and ensure safer drinking water. The legislation provides increased\u00a0flexibility\u00a0to state and local governments to meet their specific needs, develops cost-efficient ways to protect drinking water, and ensures funds are utilized efficiently and effectively. \u201cIt\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 04:54:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}