Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Resources
View the Peer Call “What’s in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for Water” Part 1 here:
Slides:
- What’s in the Bills? IIJA + Build Back Better Act – Julian Gonzalez, EarthJustice
- Infrastructure Implementation– Becky Hammer, NRDC
- Natural Flood Management in Infrastructure Bills – Eileen Shader, American Rivers
Peer Call “What’s in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for Water” Part 2, led by American Rivers, explores the opportunities within IIJA related to removal, rehabilitation, and retrofit of dams and western water issues.
Slides:
- US Army Corps of Engineers, US Forest Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service, NOAA, and FEMA funding and Western water funding – Serena McClain and Matt Rice, American Rivers
Resources from the water community
- River Network’s blog summary: What’s Inside The Infrastructure Investment And Jobs Act For Water?
- American Rivers’ blog: Celebrate the wins for rivers and clean water in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- Water and Tribes Initiative’s report: Federal and Congressional recommendations on improving Tribal access to clean water
- Read the executive summary
- National Conference of State Legislatures’ summary of the bill
- National Association of Counties’ recap of water provisions for counties
- Resources from the 10 Strategies website includes:
- Funding for state and local governments factsheet
- Funding for Tribal governments and entities factsheet
- Funding for non-governmental organizations factsheet
- Searchable database of funding opportunities from the IIJA
- The Nature Conservancy: Promoting Nature-Based Hazard Mitigation through FEMA Mitigation Grants
Resources from the federal government
- Full text of H.R. 3684
- Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Guidebook is a roadmap for how to access funds for states, local, tribal, and territorial governments and other partners.
- EPA webpage on infrastructure funding includes fact sheets, funding allocations, and more.
- EPA guidance on implementation of the CWSRF and DWSRF provisions of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (March 8, 2022)
- EPA 2022 State Revolving Fund (SRF) Estimated Allotments to States, Tribes, and Territories by Program
- Congressional Research Service’s report on Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA): Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure
- EPA’s Overview of Clean Water State Revolving Fund Eligibilities
- EPA’s Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Eligibility Handbook
Implementation Advocacy and Tools
State-level Model Resolution
- Model Resolution to create Environmental Justice Oversight Committees at the state level to define “disadvantaged communities” and provide oversight and recommendations regarding the implementation of IIJA.
River Network’s Equitable Water Infrastructure Toolkit
- Infrastructure Section:
- Section 3 Federal Funding for Water Infrastructure
- B. Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (SRFs)
- C. Differences Between the Clean Water and Drinking Water SRF Programs
- D. Tribes and SRFs
- Section 4. Doing More with the State Revolving Funds (SRFs)
- A. Focus on Low-Income Frontline Communities
- B. Providing Additional Subsidization Within the SRF Programs
- C. Linked Deposit Program
- D. The Role of Bonds and Leveraging in the SRF
- Section 3 Federal Funding for Water Infrastructure
River Network’s State Revolving Fund Advocacy Toolkit
- River Network’s SRF Advocacy Toolkit breaks down how SRFs function, what projects can use SRF dollars, and includes advocacy examples and recommendations, along with tools local and state groups can use.
River Network’s State Revolving Fund Resource Page
- Includes helpful links to SRF program basics and how SRFs can fund green infrastructure and wastewater projects, address affordability and equity, and how to leverage SRFs through partnerships.
State Revolving Fund Switchboard by Spring Point and Southwest Environmental Finance Center
- Features a repository of documentation and tools related to State Revolving Funds, including Intended Use Plans.
State Revolving Fund (SRF) State Advocates Forum
- Join advocates from across the country in a community of practice for those working on equitable implementation of SRF dollars in their communities.
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