{"id":414306,"date":"2024-10-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=414306"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"CNMI-getting-11M-more-to-modernize-drinking-water-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/CNMI-getting-11M-more-to-modernize-drinking-water-system\/","title":{"rendered":"CNMI getting $11M more to modernize drinking water system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI is receiving another $11 million in federal funds to repair and modernize its public drinking water system, according to Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP) over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan disclosed in his <em>e-kilili<\/em> newsletter that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday about the $11,007,000 in fiscal year 2025 allotments for the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.<\/p>\n<p>He said it is for the fourth of five years in the Biden\/Harris administration\u2019s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Public Law 117-58, which U.S. Congress passed in 2021, and is an increase from the $10,160,000 awarded to the CNMI last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EPA, of the $2.6 billion in total SRF funds for FY 2025, Guam is receiving $10,084,000 in SRF, while American Samoa and Virgin Islands are getting $7,181,000 and $9,075,000, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides $50 billion to the EPA to strengthen the nation\u2019s drinking water and wastewater systems.<\/p>\n<p>Anita Maria Thompkins, EPA Drinking Water Infrastructure Development Division director, in a memorandum to Water Division directors SRF Branch Chiefs Regions 1-10 on Tuesday, stated that it is the single largest investment in clean water that the federal government has ever made.<\/p>\n<p>Thompkins said the EPA\u2019s oversight role of the SRF programs along with a commitment to provide technical assistance to states and communities is critical to ensuring that states meet the BIL priorities.<\/p>\n<p>She said EPA regions should ensure the state SRF managers are aware that, per the BIL statute, state match remains 20% for the 2025 BIL general supplemental.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/4220740eb255f413de5839320cf95583.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI is receiving another $11 million in federal funds to repair and modernize its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}