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<blockquote data-quote="Margonme" data-source="post: 1393350" data-attributes="member: 25776"><p>This commonly occurs in agencies when a new administration of the opposite party takes office. Until the cabinet positions and admistrators are seated, funding for programs not mandated by public law are frozen until the new heads of office can oversee where the funding is going.</p><p></p><p>In the case of EPA, which is not a cabinet office, and therefore is not administered by a secretary, this executive order will freeze cooperative agreement and grant funding until a new administrator is seated.</p><p></p><p>Cooperative agreements and grants are the funding instruments that provide states and Indian Reservation cost share money to build infrastructure such as waste water treatment facilities, and funding to conduct enforcement activities.</p><p></p><p>There is a longstanding debate on the multiple layers of bureaucracy and efficiency created by delegating programs. Congress passes Public Laws which places federal mandates on the executive branch. The executive branch in the past 40 years has authorized states and tribes to fulfill those mandates. Before accepting those mandates, states and tribes have insisted that the federal government pay the cost of those mandates. That has created the federal funding nightmare . These funds are tracked but there is enormous inefficiencies. EPA has a relatively small budget compared to other agencies like the Department of Agriculture.</p><p></p><p>It might be interesting to some that public water treatment, sewage treatment facilities, solid waste disposal, etc. are largely funded through EPA. Where the tax burden should be is a very thorny issue. States resist shouldering the tax burden for these public facilities so it falls to the federal government. Since the federal government has an annual budget deficit, think of it this way. CHINA PAYS FOR THE CLEAN WATER YOU DRINK.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Margonme, post: 1393350, member: 25776"] This commonly occurs in agencies when a new administration of the opposite party takes office. Until the cabinet positions and admistrators are seated, funding for programs not mandated by public law are frozen until the new heads of office can oversee where the funding is going. In the case of EPA, which is not a cabinet office, and therefore is not administered by a secretary, this executive order will freeze cooperative agreement and grant funding until a new administrator is seated. Cooperative agreements and grants are the funding instruments that provide states and Indian Reservation cost share money to build infrastructure such as waste water treatment facilities, and funding to conduct enforcement activities. There is a longstanding debate on the multiple layers of bureaucracy and efficiency created by delegating programs. Congress passes Public Laws which places federal mandates on the executive branch. The executive branch in the past 40 years has authorized states and tribes to fulfill those mandates. Before accepting those mandates, states and tribes have insisted that the federal government pay the cost of those mandates. That has created the federal funding nightmare . These funds are tracked but there is enormous inefficiencies. EPA has a relatively small budget compared to other agencies like the Department of Agriculture. It might be interesting to some that public water treatment, sewage treatment facilities, solid waste disposal, etc. are largely funded through EPA. Where the tax burden should be is a very thorny issue. States resist shouldering the tax burden for these public facilities so it falls to the federal government. Since the federal government has an annual budget deficit, think of it this way. CHINA PAYS FOR THE CLEAN WATER YOU DRINK. [/QUOTE]
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