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DEQ and Public Finance Authority summarize Clean Water SRF lending, loan forgiveness and multi‑agency coordination

5808754 · September 18, 2025
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DEQ and the Public Finance Authority told the committee the Clean Water State Revolving Fund uses bond leverage, federal capitalization grants and loan repayments to finance wastewater and related projects and that loan forgiveness is available but limited by federal caps.

Elizabeth Tokash Duran, Clean Water State Revolving Fund program manager at the Department of Environmental Quality, and Diane Ament, director of the Public Finance Authority, briefed the committee on SRF operations, loan forgiveness and the interagency application portal used to coordinate funding.

Duran said the Clean Water SRF and the Drinking Water SRF operate as revolving loan funds, using federal capitalization grants, state bonding as match and loan repayments from borrowers to sustain lending. She said the program has provided more than $1 billion in project assistance since the program began in 1989. Loan terms are typically up to 30 years and the effective…

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