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EPA Press Release 2/2/04:
FY 2005 Budget Empowers Agency to Accelerate Environmental Protection
Contact: Cynthia Bergman, 202 564-9828 / bergman.cynthia@epa.gov
President Bush's 2005 budget provides $7.76 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency, a
$133 million increase over the 2004 budget request. EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt, joined by key Agency officials, announcing the budget at a Washington, D.C. news briefing today, expressed pleasure with the resources being provided to the Agency.
"With the President's budget, we can increase the velocity of environmental protection -- protecting our land, cleaning our air and cleansing our water -- efficiently, effectively and without impairing the economy," Leavitt said. "We are adopting better ways – facilitating collaboration, harnessing technology, creating market incentives – and we are committed to measuring progress, not process."
To ensure cleaner, safer water, the President's budget provides:
* $25 million for the Targeted Watersheds Program, a $10 million - 67 percent increase over the 2004 Consolidated Appropriations legislation level, allowing for competitive grants to communities to implement watershed protection and restoration plans and funding a $10 million regional pilot program to help publicly-owned treatment works implement nonpoint source projects to comply with nutrient discharge limits in the Chesapeake Bay.
* $20 million for a new water-quality monitoring initiative to provide $17 million in grants and $3 million in technical assistance to help States and Tribes develop and implement statistically representative water quality monitoring programs. This consistency across programs will eventually allow EPA to make a national determination of water quality and ensure resources target the highest priority problems.
[excerpted from http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/b1ab9f485b098972852562e7004dc686/f900b998879d563d85256e2e00660ef7?OpenDocument ]
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