Issue a rule updating the Clean Water Act needs survey

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Printed page 429 13. Environmental Protection Agency

“A rule on updates necessary for the effective use of the CWA needs survey.”

What has happened

Aug 27, 2026 Not started

No rule updates the Clean Water Act needs survey. The only needs survey activity on the record is an information collection request for the eighth drinking water infrastructure survey, which runs under a different statute and is routine renewal rather than the reform the Quote asks for.

No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Negative search (2026-08-27): the EPA Federal Register notices we keep and search carry one needs survey document in the window — an information collection request for the 8th Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment, published 2026-06-26. That is the Safe Drinking Water Act survey, not the Clean Water Act one.
The Clean Watersheds Needs Survey is the instrument the Quote means. Nothing in the window updates it, and no rule governs it.
EPA’s full regulatory agenda, read 2026-09-01. The full EPA Unified Agenda was read on reginfo.gov (214 entries across the active, long-term and completed stages), because the Federal Register prints only the entries that need a Regulatory Flexibility analysis and the 2026-08-27 negative search was taken from that abbreviated version. Nearest entry: RIN 2040-AG43, Updates to the Clean Water State Revolving Fund Regulations (EPA/Office of Water, Long-Term Actions, 40 CFR 35.3100, interim final rule timetabled 08/2027): https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=202510&RIN=2040-AG43. The Clean Watersheds Needs Survey feeds the CWSRF allotments this rule governs, but the entry’s abstract is about aligning the 1990 regulations with WRRDA 2014 and the IIJA and says nothing about the survey. No survey RIN appears anywhere on the agenda, so the negative now covers the agenda too. Status unchanged.