After 34 years of growth, will Congress change how Florida's clean-water money is figured
OCT 26, 2021
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As Congress mulls multibillion-dollar hikes in spending on clean water, members from Florida are renewing a bid to grow the share of that money reaching their state, the Florida Times-Union reports. The Clean Water Allotment Modernization Act of 2021 would update rules for distributing money that were first drafted in 1987, when Florida had almost 10 million fewer people. The legislation, filed last week in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, is meant to shake up a financing system called the Clean Water State Revolving Fund that sent $54 million to Florida this year, but sent more to smaller states like Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
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