Funding Steady for Environment, Interior Programs in Senate Bill

Route Fifty: Legislation that cleared a Senate appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday would maintain current spending levels for federal water and sewer financing programs, and would fully fund payments to local jurisdictions with large tracts of public lands.

The fiscal year 2019 spending proposal for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior will advance to the full Senate Appropriations Committee with bipartisan support, as lawmakers agreed to avoid "poison pill" provisions.

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