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WEE Winter Meeting: Federal Issues Briefing

WEE Winter Meeting: Federal Issues Briefing. Lynn Schloesser. February 25, 2019. 2019 Agenda:. Infrastructure. House T&I Chairman DeFazio’s approach: Transportation Water Vertical(?) Hazardous waste Emphasis on funding/financing. 2019 Agenda: Infrastructure. Potential Pay- Fors :

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WEE Winter Meeting: Federal Issues Briefing

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  1. WEE Winter Meeting: Federal Issues Briefing Lynn Schloesser February 25, 2019

  2. 2019 Agenda: Infrastructure • House T&I Chairman DeFazio’s approach: • Transportation • Water • Vertical(?) • Hazardous waste • Emphasis on funding/financing

  3. 2019 Agenda: Infrastructure • Potential Pay-Fors: • Penny for Progress – issue 30-year bonds, repaid with an annual gas tax increase • Passenger Facility Charge – raise/uncap to fund airport projects • Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund – spend down existing balance to align funding with revenues

  4. 2019 Agenda: Infrastructure • Senate/Administration approach: • FAST Act Reauthorization • Catalyst for larger package • Open to new revenues? • WRDA • Corps projects, water & wastewater provisions

  5. 2019 Agenda: Infrastructure • Finance Proposals (transportation, water, public buildings) • Rebuild America Act (Blumenauer) – increase fuels taxes • National VMT pilot program (S. Graves) • Move America Act (Wyden, Hoeven) – creates new tax-exempt PAB and infrastr. tax credit finance P3s (transportation, water and sewer) • BUILD Act (Cornyn, Warner) – increases PAB cap from $15 billion to $20.8 billion for highway, freight projects • TIFIA: RAPID Act (Cornyn, Kaine); TIFIA for Airports (Duckworth) • Private Activity Bonds for Public Buildings (Blumenauer, Kelly)

  6. Agenda for the New Congress • Energy • Bipartisan energy bill in Senate (“all of the above”) • Green New Deal effects? • Eminent Domain? • NEPA, Federal Power Act? • fossil/nuclear? • Cyber Security? • FERC Commissioner Vacancies - two to fill in 2019

  7. Agenda for the New Congress • Climate Change: Mitigation, Adaptation (review of 2018 disaster supplemental spending, DRRA implementation) • Senate – Republican control - more measured approach • House – Democrat control – Green New Deal • Carbon management with substitution of fossil inputs for renewables: energy, agriculture, transportation (high-speed rail) manufacturing; carbon storage (soils, afforestation) to achieve net-zero emissions • Socio-economic mobilization for benefit of “frontline and vulnerable communities” (education, jobs, …)

  8. Agenda for the New Congress • Water and Environment Issues • Superfund – • efforts to reinstate the tax • emerging contaminants a new driver (PFAS) • climate change impacts on sites • viewed as infrastructure issue • PFAS – focus on accelerating MCL determination, funding for remediation • WOTUS – Comments due April 15, 2019.

  9. Agenda for the New Congress • International: • Trade agreements • EX-IM Bank • USAID • “Transparency” legislation – mandate use of software to track computer usage • Tax – • extenders and technical corrections • carbon, superfund, fuels?

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