13. Environmental Protection Agency · Minor · Needs Congress
Increase funding for the Clean Water Act needs survey
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“Because this program is currently underfunded, money is being thrown at untargeted locations while water infrastructure is crumbling at other locations. Increased targeted funding would greatly benefit water systems across the country at a time when intervention is crucial, leaving fewer communities with significant water service challenges.”
What has happened
- Not started
Congress has not increased funding for the Clean Water Act needs survey, and the administration did not ask it to. No enacted law in this Congress raises the survey's funding, no bill is directed at it, and EPA's own budget request sought reductions across the water programs rather than the targeted increase the Quote calls crucial.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Requires Congress. On the Requires-Congress ladder, a funding increase needs an appropriation: nothing short of enactment moves this above not started.
- Negative search (2026-08-27): among the public laws we keep and search, none increases Clean Watersheds Needs Survey funding; among the bills, none is titled for it; EPA’s FY2026 budget request moved in the opposite direction, proposing deep reductions across the water programs (#1058).
- The survey itself is #1114, which is also not started.
- Action
- expand
- Object
- Clean Water Act needs survey funding
- ID
- 1116