Post Tagged with: "WIFIA"

The U.S. Environmental Protection announced a $40 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan for South Sioux City, Nebraska, to support upgrades and expansions to its wastewater treatment facility. This loan will help the city install new systems to treat wastewater, reducing costsRead More

The White House recently released its budget request for fiscal year 2027 (FY2027), which, similar to its FY2026 request, included more proposed cuts to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State Revolving Loan Funds (SRFs). According to an analysis in the Association of MetropolitanRead More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected the Mojave Groundwater Bank – Northern Pipeline Project to submit an application for a low-interest loan of up to $194 million to fund capital costs under the federal Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program. TheRead More

By John Ryan In response to the Trump administration’s slowdown of loan processing at the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program, four water advocacy groups sent a letter to EPA Administrator Zeldin in October last year asking for normal processing to resume. InRead More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced more than $351 million in funding for the City of Fort Worth, Texas. The funds include an approved loan of $347 million from the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program and selection of Fort WorthRead More

In November, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) Amendments of 2025 aimed at broadening funding provided by WIFIA loan program at U.S. EPA. The amendments were introduced by U.S. Reps. Kim SchrierRead More

By John Ryan The first part of this article concluded that the most likely cause of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan program’s dramatic decline from 2022 to 2024 was displacement by two other federally subsidized sources of U.S. water infrastructure finance,Read More

By John Ryan What is happening at EPA’s Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan program? The mysterious issue is not the near-complete cessation of loan closings under Trump 2.0. The reason for that is clearer: the Office of Management and Budget’s pause on federal grantsRead More

On Thursday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $6.5 billion in Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) funding for water systems, with an additional $550 million available to states. The agency also announced the approval of five WIFIA new loans.Read More

The director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Water Infrastructure Finance & Innovation Authority (WIFIA) program Jorianne Jernberg is leaving the agency, according to a colleague. The news was acknowledged in a Nov. 13 LinkedIn post from Tracy Mehan, AWWA’s executive director of governmentRead More