Iowa communities want unfunded mandates to end
May 15, 2008

A group of local government officials from Iowa has gone to Washington to express their frustration with environmental mandates from Federal authorities at the EPA which they say amount to unfunded mandates. Several Iowa communities, for instance, have been ordered to separate their storm sewers from their sanitary sewers. Those projects appear to have environmental and health benefits, but they also require large capital expenditures on new stormwater infrastructure.

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