Cheryl MacKelvie

2022 Legislative Session Heats Up The CASA State Legislative Committee met on Friday, March 11th to discuss and take positions on high priority bills that are now moving through the 2022 Legislative Session. A bill list with CASA’s adopted positions is now available. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for opportunities for your agency to [...]

Congress Passes FY2022 Omnibus Package After months of stalemate between congressional appropriators to agree to fiscal year (FY) 2022 appropriations, Congress passed an omnibus package (HR 2471) that combines all twelve spending bills. Totaling $1.5 trillion in discretionary spending, the package provides $730 billion in non-defense spending and $782 billion in defense spending. Summaries of [...]

CPUC Adopts Biomethane Procurement Program The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on February 24, unanimously voted to adopt a biomethane procurement requirement of 72.8 billion cubic feet of biomethane annually by 2030 for the Investor-Owned Utilities (IOU’s), with important interim goals to help meet the waste diversion requirements of SB 1383. This includes prioritization for anaerobic [...]

New Associate Member Welcome 374 Water!   CASA 2022 “Ask the Experts” Webinar Series Join us for a series of CASA-led “Ask the Experts” webinars! Every month from now until June 2022, we will host a new webinar to facilitate conversation on the hot topics all clean water agencies are concerned with, including infrastructure funding, climate resiliency, public messaging, PFAS, [...]

Excellence in Advocacy Achievement Awarded to CASA Board Member The WateReuse Association has awarded CASA Board Member and Orange County Sanitation District General Manager, Jim Herberg the Excellence in Advocacy Achievement Award for his contributions to water reuse, the wastewater industry, and the environment. The award was announced at the 37th Annual WaterReuse Symposium in [...]

LIHWAP Webinar Recording, Web Form Link & Enrollment Package On February 15 and 16, the CA Department of Community Services and Development held an informational webinar regarding the disbursement of the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP) funds. For those unable to attend, we wanted to pass along several items of interest including the [...]

  After we made the tough decision to cancel the CASA Winter Conference this January, CASA staff got to work crafting an alternative so members could still have access to the timely and important information we were planning as part of the program. Starting next Monday, March 7, 2022, and running through June 2022, we [...]

CASA Concludes Successful Washington D.C. Policy Forum Just this week, CASA celebrated a successful return to Washington D.C. as we hosted our 18th annual Policy Forum. Attendees heard from Congressional staff on key Committees of jurisdiction, several high level USEPA representatives, national association partners, as well as Representative John Garamendi. Thank you to all our [...]

Hundreds of Bills Introduced Before State Legislative Deadline Friday, February 18th was the bill introduction deadline for the 2022 Legislative Session.  In the weeks leading up to the deadline all bills that will be considered this year were introduced and assigned bill numbers. Now every bill must remain in print for 30 days before they [...]

White House Publishes Guidebook for IIJA Infrastructure Implementation The White House has published the “Building a Better America” guidebook for states, local governments, and Territories to assist in the understanding and coordinating the implementation Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), commonly known as the bipartisan infrastructure law. Over the coming weeks, the Administration will publish [...]