Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the allocations of funding for states, Tribes, and territories for 2022 under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: the agency plans to allocate $7.4 billion for the year.
The funding will be provided through EPA’s State Revolving Fund (SRF) programs, upgrading America’s aging water infrastructure and addressing key challenges like lead in drinking water and per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination. In a letter sent to Governors today, the EPA’s administrator Michael S. Regan encouraged states to maximize the impact of water funding from the law – an unprecedented nationwide total of $50 billion investment – to address disproportionate environmental burdens in historically underserved communities across the country.
“The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has created a historic opportunity to correct longstanding environmental and economic injustices across America,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. “As leaders, we must seize this moment. Billions of dollars are about to start flowing to states and it is critical that EPA partners with states, Tribes, and territories to ensure the benefits of these investments are delivered in the most equitable way.”
"While the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has a longstanding history of working with our communities to improve this infrastructure across the state, far too much is old and in desperate need of replacement," said N.J.'s Commissioner of Environmental Protection Shawn M. LaTourette in a statement. "The funding made possible by the passage of the national Infrastructure Law rightly focuses on the pressing needs of our environmental justice communities and opens many doors for us to better safeguard the health of our citizens, protect the environment, grow the economy and create jobs – and improve the quality of life for all New Jerseyans by making all of our communities strong.”
Nearly half of this funding will be available as grants or principal forgiveness loans, intended to support underserved communities across rural America and in urban centers. The 2022 allocation is the first of five years of nearly $44 billion in dedicated EPA SRF funding that states will receive through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The latest list of announced funding, which accounts for 36 of 50 states, is as follows:
- Ky.: $112,643,000
- Tenn.: $120,833,000
- N.J.: $168, 949,000
- N.C.: $119,211,000
- Del.: $63,041,000
- Fla. $275,420,000
- Virgin Islands: $31,883,000
- Miss.: $74, 899,000
- Vt.: $63,041,000
- Mass.: $188,890,000
- Nev.: $71,691,000
- Ariz.: $109,458,000
- Ala.: $137,030,000
- Calif.: $600,000,000
- Maine: $68,390,000
- R.I.: $66,451,000
- Conn.: $76,907,000
- N.H.: $72,644,000
- Colo.: $121,347,000
- Mont.: $63,041,000
- N.D.: $63,041,000
- S.D.: $63,041,000
- Utah: $63,721,000
- Wyo.: $63,041,000
- Ark.: $93,252,000
- La.: $101,243,000
- Okla.: $91,488,000
- N.M.: $63,041,000
- Texas: $507,672,000
- Pa.: $240,381,000
- Hawaii: $68,000,000
- Puerto Rico: $78,404,000
- N.Y.: $428,072,000
- Del.: $63,041,000
- D.C.: $63,041,000
- Va.: $126,383,000
- W.Va.: $83,211,000
