110 HRES 832 RH: Honoring the Texas Water Development Board
U.S. House of Representatives
2007-11-15
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Whereas on November 5, 2007, the Texas Water Development
Board (TWDB) was honored as a recipient of the Environmental Protection
Agency’s 2007 Performance and Innovation in the Clean Water State Revolving
Fund (CWSRF) Creating Environmental Success Award at the Council of
Infrastructure Financing Authorities annual conference in Denver,
Colorado;
Whereas the CWSRF program in Texas has been a front-runner
and precedent-setting program in wastewater management for many years, and the
State’s CWSRF leveraging practices as well as other established management
practices are used by many other States as examples to enhance the management
of their funds;
Whereas the CWSRF in Texas has successfully awarded
communities approximately $4,300,000,000 in low-interest loans to finance 472
water infrastructure projects across the State of Texas;
Whereas these projects, which serve approximately one-half
of the population of Texas and treat about 2,100,000,000 gallons per day of
wastewater, provide direct environmental and public health benefits;
Whereas the agency is proposing to increase the
marketability and demand for the CWSRF program by pursuing the use of extended
loan terms beyond the authorized 20-year term to a 30-year term;
Whereas the TWDB developed a State Revolving Fund
Information Management System to satisfy the need for more timely and accurate
information on the status of water and wastewater loan projects as those
projects move through the phases of the preapplication process and
beyond;
Whereas the TWDB has actively encouraged asset management
as evidenced in its creation of a Best Management Practices Guide for water
conservation;
Whereas the TWDB established direct authority and
responsibility for the coordination of the CWSRF program by creating State
Revolving Fund Coordinator positions;
Whereas the TWDB’s Intended Use Plan Post-Mortem Review
was lauded for identifying various activities that will be used in improving
future CWSRF Intended Use Plan development processes;
Whereas the TWDB holds interoffice planning meetings that
serve as monthly forums to provide for interoffice discussion on State
Revolving Fund policies, procedures and processes, and deadlines;
Whereas the agency assigned cross-functional,
multidisciplinary teams to manage project performance review from application
phase through construction, and these teams are responsible for identifying and
developing solutions to project circumstances that may cause a project to fall
behind its schedule; and
Whereas the agency was also noted for its outstanding
regional water planning activities, best management practices in the areas of
nonpoint source pollution funding, the instream flow program, work with the
United States Army Corps of Engineers to amend the Federal water resources
development legislation to further enhance its watershed approach, funding of
water reuse projects, agricultural and municipal water conservation projects,
and water conservation education activities: Now, therefore, be it
That the House of
Representatives—
(1)honors the Texas
Water Development Board on their selection as the Environmental Protection
Agency’s 2007 Clean Water State Revolving Fund Performance and Innovation Award
recipient; and
(2)recognizes the
importance of adequate investment and management of water resources in
sustainable development, including environmental integrity and human health and
overall quality of life in the United States.
January 28, 2008
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be
printed