Promoting Efficient Review for Modern Infrastructure Today Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. SHREVE. Mr. Chair, I thank the chairman for yielding. I appreciate the time, and I appreciate my colleague Mike Collins' work on this commonsense package of clean water reforms.

I am grateful that my bill, H.R. 3934, the Water Quality Standards Attainability Act, is included. My bill serves to maintain State and local leadership in setting their water quality standards under the Clean Water Act.

Let me cite a compelling example of why this legislation is necessary. In 2020, the EPA approved in Indianapolis, in my district, new standards for stormwater management. These updates were an aid to ensure that Hoosiers had access to clean water and that our localities were able to deliver on this responsibility. In early '24, under the Biden EPA, this approval was revoked for the infrastructure updates that were already well underway, costing our taxpayers needless millions.

This unpredictability has been a practice of our Federal Government for too long. It is time our local governments and taxpayers have the transparency and certainty with which to cost-effectively invest in our infrastructure.

My legislation will ensure that the regulatory whiplash is in our rearview mirror. My bill will ensure that when States write their rules, they consider affordability and accessibility to water treatment technologies.

Through this legislation, we are providing certainty and predictability in the EPA approval process and a little Hoosier common sense in delivery. I urge my colleagues to support this legislation.

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