CALEB RASPLER

Energy and Water Appropriations: Bureau of Reclamation budget and specific programs including CALFED, Title XVI, and Quagga muscle research and action plan, Colorado River Salinity Control, Army Corps budget, WIIN Act (P.L. 114-322) programs Interior and Environment Appropriations: EPA's SRF program, WIFIA, USGS's streamgauge program, geospatial imagery program and water cooperative program, national priority water quality research program funding, forest service budget, US Army Corps of Engineers civil works budget. Agriculture and Rural Development Appropriations: Farm bill conservation programs and NRCS funding; Colorado River salinity control funding. Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations: Low Income Household Water Assistance funding Municipal bonds/tax reform Alternative financing mechanisms for Reclamation projects, RIFIA, aging infrastructure funding

Funding and implementation of cybersecurity measures for municipal water and wastewater agencies Issues related to the implementation of the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA) as it relates to water infrastructure.

Issues related to protecting the tax exempt status of Municipal Bonds Tax exemption for Water Conservation Measures including H.R.8682 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the exclusion for certain conservation subsidies to include subsidies for water conservation or efficiency measures, storm water management measures, and wastewater management measures.

Issues related to the development and implementation of the Farm Bill Issues related to H.R. 8467 the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024

Low Income Household Water Affordability Program Issues related to utilities that are organized as special districts and S.4673 and H.R. 7525 the Special District Grant Accessibility Act

State administration of EPA's SRF program Water Infrastructure Funding: SRF funding, WIFIA funding (water infrastructure financing investment act) Clean Water Act: NPDES permit terms to ten years, clean water act rulemaking, Waters of the U.S. rulemaking Safe Drinking Water Act implementation: EPA regulatory determinations Watersense Authorization CEQA/NEPA issues Issues related to S.1430 Water Systems PFAS Liability Protection Act Drinking water regulation, per- and polyfluoroakyl substances (PFAS) regulation, CERCLA liability exemption for municipal water and wastewater agencies, comments for CERCLA Rulemaking on PFOA and PFOS at EPA, comments for draft PFAS-related legislation through Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Resource Conservation Recovery Act issues related to PFAS EPA Lead and Copper Rule Improvements regulation EPA Toxic Substances Control Act as related to water infrastructure Issues related to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Principles Requirements and Guidelines. Issues related to H.R. 2964 Wastewater Infrastructure Pollution Prevention and Environmental Safety Act Issues related to the Water Resources Development Act H.R. 8812 and S. 4367

ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA WATER AGENCIES