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\nSTATEWATER-POLLUTIONCONTROLofficialslast week were urged by key House and Senate staff to formacoalition with other interests—housing,space and veterans—and push for a bigger allocation of federal funds to bedivided among them by the Veterans,HUD and IndependentAgencies Subcommittee.The construction grants/staterevolving fund (SRF)loan program comes under thesubcommittee's jurisdiction.Unless a larger allocation isobtained,they were told,competition among subcommitteeprograms will escalate dramatically.\"There's a lot of com-petition out there for very few dollars,and in our case,thecompetition is pretty stiff any which way we look,\"said JeffPeterson,a staff member for the Senate Subcommittee onEnvironmental Pollution,who addressed the annual mid-winter meeting of the Association of State and InterstateWater Pollution Control Administrators(ASIWPCA)inWashington,D.C.  \n\"WE'RE ALLUNDER a very severe financial crunch.We need to think creatively to expand programs,\"Petersonsaid,echoing a recent statement by new EnvironmentalProtection Agency Administrator William Reilly,who inacknowledging the shortage of funds to handle the nation'ssewage treatment needs,said:\"It would take all of EPA'scurrent annual budget of $4.9 billion for the next 17 years todo the job.Clearly,we must think creatively.We must thinkcost effectively ...”(A/WPR,Feb.20,1989,p.60).  \nINACREATIVEVEIN,some states are charging fees,for example,for a National Pollutant Discharge EliminationSystem permit to raise funds for water-quality controlprograms.“Congress is ready to think about creating ways tofund these programs in the long-term,\"Peterson said.Waterquality officials are particularly concerned with the cut in thesewage-treatment construction grants program.AlthoughCongress authorized $2.4 billion for construction grants inthe 1987Water Quality Act amendments,it has not providedthe full amount.In fiscal year 1989,Congress appropriated  \n$1.95 billion for the construction grants/SRFprogram,whichstates will finance completely after 1994.  \nALTHOUGH THE FUNDING CUT in constructiongrants perturbed state water officials,they are partly to blamefor the cut,said Don Ryan,a staff member for the HouseSubcommittee on Veterans,HUD andIndependent Agencies.He admonished ASIWPCA members,saying,“You've donea poor job of expressing the effect of cuts in the SRF andwater-quality programs in the long run.Somehow that mes-sage has got to be passed along.”Ryan added that“this year,there will be an even stiffer uphill drive for constructiongrants and other programs.People realized there's nothing  \nIR/WATER pollution report  \nWeekly Report on Environmental Protection  \n             February 27,1989                 Page 65  \nHIGHLIGHTS  \nGlobal Warming Resurfaces in House ………Page 67Delaware Deals with Animal Manure………Page 68Water Officials Pass Wetlands Policy………Page 68  \nsacred about the $2.4 billion.The sky didn't fall when $1.95billion was appropriated.”Unlike other popular federalprograms that receivedcuts,he said,\"there was nohell topay.We got the usualflurry of letters showing support for grants,but those kinds of pro-forma letters really don't get the jobdone.\"  \nON A PROMISING NOTE for state water officials,Rep.Bill Green(R.-N.Y.),amember of the House Appropria-tions Committee,said construction grants funding for FY90probably will rise.\"My guess is we're going to push that upand get it up to at least last year's level.\"Funding for non-point source pollution control,meanwhile,(see related story,p.68)is expected to be“a very lively issue ...this year.”Congress authorized $400 million for non-point source pol-lution,but it has not appropriated any funds.  \nWATER-POLLUTION ISSUES ASIDE,the CleanAir Act will be the highest priority for the Senate environ-mental committees,followed by reauthorization of theResource Conservation and Recovery Act and passage ofground water legislation,said Peterson.He also said 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