A federal has audit sharply criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s handling of a $300 million grant towards the Colonias Wastewater Treatment Assistance Program, designed to provide sewer service for thousands of people living in border colonias. It was recently discovered that since the last of the grant money was awarded in 1999, nearly $78 million has remained unspent due to "numerous difficulties". The Star-Telegraph article can be read here. With a 2010 deadline for the grant, each delay reduces the purchasing power of the grant's money and delays needed public health improvements.
A copy of the EPA Inspector General's audit can be read here.
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