1. ACEC INDIANA Environmental Business and Funding Sources Conference
Lynn Schloesser
September 26, 2019

2. Infrastructure Resilience Challenges
National
Energy and Water
Infrastructure Resilience Challenges

3. Water, Energy & Environment Committee
Water: flood-storm-waste-drinking
Energy: “all the above,” advanced technology, microgrids, cybersecurity
Environment:
WOTUS, DOE EM,
Superfund, PFAS or
emerging contaminants,
NEPA permitting reform

4. Water, Energy & Environment Committee
Summer/Winter meetings
Workgroups: NEPA, WOTUS, Superfund/EC, Cybersecurity
WEE Updates (weekly)
Convention Sessions –
pre-disaster mitigation
sea-level rise
Colorado River
urban flooding, integ. planning

5. Federal Drivers Calls disasters Green New Deal infrastructure
Responses
local government
utilities: energy, water
legislation, regulation

6. 2019 Agenda: Infrastructure Administration/Senate (aligned)
FAST Act Reauthorization
WRDA (Corp, POTWs, SDW)
House
T&I - lead
E&C, Nat. Res., and Cmte on Climate Change – input
“Pay for” issues
Senate Energy
Renewable Energy Standards
Clean Energy Standards
Tech/Market/Tax Proposals

7. Chairman DeFazio plan:
Infrastructure – T&I
Chairman DeFazio plan:
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund – spend down balance
Clean Water SRF – reauthorization
Passenger Facility Charge – cap increase
Highway Trust Fund – gas tax with bonding

8. Water and Resilience

9. AWIA (Risk Assessments and Emergency Response); WRDA
Water and Resilience
Integrated Planning
AWIA (Risk Assessments and Emergency Response); WRDA
$6.1 billion for new Corps projects, $4.4 billion DWSRF, WIFIA expansion
No plastic pipe mandates
DRRA and USACE Disaster Supplemental 2018
Flood Insurance
Affordability (MHI)
Conference of Mayors Report on Procurement
Colorado River
(c) American Council of Engineering Companies

10. Energy

11. Nuclear Energy Leadership Act, others Advanced Nuclear
Executive Orders
Nuclear Energy Leadership Act, others
Advanced Nuclear
FERC quorum, distributed resources, pipelines and transmission
DOE LPO – Appalachian Hub
(c) American Council of Engineering Companies

12. Government Affairs Staff
Steve Hall
Senior Vice President
Advocacy and External Affairs
Matt Reiffer
Senior Director Transportation Programs
Katharine Mottley
Senior Director
Tax and Regulatory Affairs
Lynn Schloesser
Director Water, Energy, and Environment Programs
Dan Hilton
Director Procurement Advocacy & International Affairs
Jennifer Pugh
Political Director
Jeff Urbanchuk
Director Strategic Communications