The first major water-resources bill in more than six years is heading to President Obama's desk. The $12.3-billion Water Resources Reform and Development Act authorizes nearly three dozen new Army Corps of Engineers projects, directs the agency to speed up its feasibility studies and provides new revenue sources for dredging, flood control and other water projects.
WRRDA focuses on the Corps, but it also aids water and wastewater-treatment projects, partly through changes in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency state revolving fund program, or SRF.