This Press statement on the President’s FY18 EPA budget, released this morning, notes ECOS’ commitment to engaging with the Administration and Congress to ensure that funds are appropriately distributed to assure sustained support for key state environmental initiatives. It stresses the importance of categorical grants, which are cut significantly under the FY18 proposal, in supporting state implementation of…
Policy Documents
ECOS Summary of FY 2018 President’s Budget Request for U.S. EPA
OH EPA Director Butler’s Testimony on Integrated Planning
This written testimony was presented to the House of Representatives Transportation and Innovation Committee’s Subcommittee on Water Resources and the Environment by Craig Butler, ECOS Water Committee Chair and Executive Committee Member and Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, during a May 18, 2017 hearing examining the role of Federal agencies in building a water infrastructure…
ECOS Comments on Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda
This letter contains ECOS’ response to EPA’s request for input on the President’s Executive Order 13777: Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda. The response includes 19 regulatory reform recommendations outlined in three categories.
ECOS Press Statement on U.S. EPA Approval of State CCR Authority
This ECOS Press Release commends U.S. EPA on its initiation of guidance regarding EPA review and approval of state applications to operate coal combustion residual (CCR) permit programs.
ECOS Summary of FY17 Omnibus Appropriations Bill
This document contains a chart that summarizes U.S. EPA’s Budget as outlined in the FY2017 Omnibus Appropriations Legislation.
Resolution 16-5 Addressing Serious Needs Regarding Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Investment
In this resolution, ECOS supports the SRFs; encourages identification of financing approaches that help communities make sustainable decisions for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure investment; supports leveraging opportunities across federal, state, local and private authorities to make more resources available to communities; supports efforts to prioritize efficient, affordable, and timely awards to distressed communities; supports…
Resolution 07-8 On the Need to Ensure that Up-to-Date, Protective National Ambient Air Quality Standards and Implementation Rules are Timely Promulgated and Implemented
This resolution urges EPA to ensure that NAAQS reflect current scientific information; urges EPA to set all NAAQS at levels that provide an adequate margin of safety to public health; urges EPA to work with states to identify DIP process improvements; and encourages EPA to better align compliance dates for rules that reduce the same…
Resolution 04-3: Small Community Challenges
This resolution requests that the federal government work with state and local governments to address current and future small community drinking water and wastewater requirements and to assist small communities in managing their regulatory requirements; and that federal funding for small communities be directed to states to provide small communities the technical and compliance resources…
Resolution 08-3: State Delegation of Clean Water Act Section 404 Permit Program
In this resolution, ECOS states its support of delegation of Section 404 responsibilities to states; encourages development of clear guidance for states and tribes seeking to assume the 404 program; and encourages federal government support of state assumption of 404 programs including providing funding for states that assume the program.
