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GEFA director outlines loan programs, PFAS and resilience funding, and home energy rebates
Summary
Trey Bennett, GEFA's executive director, briefed the Natural Resources & Environment committee on GEFA's loan programs, IIJA awards including $117 million for PFAS response (about $77 million committed), lead service line replacement awards, resilience funding with principal forgiveness, and home energy rebate distribution.
Trey Bennett, executive director of the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority (GEFA), briefed the Natural Resources & Environment committee on the agency’s financing role for water, energy and resilience projects and how communities can access funds.
Bennett said GEFA has provided more than $6 billion in low‑interest loans and financed more than 2,100 projects statewide. He highlighted several federal funding streams administered or matched by GEFA, including Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, lead service line replacement grants and an emerging contaminants/PFAS program. "To date, under the lead service line replacement program, GEFA has been awarded a $104,000,000 in federal funds," Bennett…
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