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EPA budget request $10B higher than FY2010
Washington (UPI) Feb 1, 2009 The Environmental Protection Agency would receive $10 billion more during fiscal year 2011 under budget proposals announced Monday by the White House. Officials said the EPA budget request is a substantially higher annual amount than requested under any previous administration and is intended to strengthen the EPA's program implementation, research, regulation and comprehensive enforcement activities. Included in the proposed EPA budget is $3.3 billion to assist states in providing low-interest loans to communities to finance wastewater and drinking water infrastructure and $1.3 billion to help states and tribes protect their air, water and land. That represents a 14 percent increase from fiscal 2010 and is the highest level ever requested. An additional $300 million would be allocated for restoration efforts in the Great Lakes basin, the largest freshwater system in the world, with a focus on contaminated sediments and toxics, non-point source pollution, habitat degradation and loss, and invasive species.
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