Environmental Finance Program

The information, letters, advisories, reports and recommendations listed on these pages are the products of the Environmental Financial Advisory Board, an independent board created under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, to provide independent advice and recommendations on the subject of environmental finance to the EPA Administrator. These papers reflect opinions and views of the independent EFAB, and not necessarily the views or opinions of the US EPA or any other government agency.

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• Documents from 2002 and Older

2008

• Public-Private Partnerships in the Provision of Water and Wastewater Services: The Canadian Experience (PDF) (12 pp, 441K)
• Relative Benefits of Direct and Leveraged Loan Approaches for State Revolving Fund (SRF) Programs (PDF) (52 pp, 1.6M)
• Meeting Summary - Workshop on Financial Assurance in EPA Programs (PDF) (26 pp, 136KB)
• EFAB's Spring 2008 Meeting Summary (PDF) (34 pp, 169KB)
• EFAB's Spring 2008 Meeting Agenda (PDF) (2 pp, 19KB)
• Environmental Management Systems and the Use of Corporate Environmental Information by the Financial Community (PDF) (42 pp, 2055K)
• Public Private Partnerships in the Provision of Water and Wastewater Services: Barriers and Incentives (PDF) (55 pp, 1560K)

2007

• SmartWay Transport Program: official letter to the EPA Administrator (PDF)(12 pp, 146K)
• Combined Sewer Overflows - Guidance for Financial Capability Assessment and Schedule Development (PDF)(11 pp, 332K)
• Summary of Environmental Financial Advisory Board Meeting
  The Use of Corporate Environmental Information in Financial Decisions (PDF) (31 pp, 181K)
  held June 12, 2007 in Arlington, VA
• Summary of Environmental Advisory Finance Board's Spring 2007 Meeting (PDF) (27 pp, 202K)
  held March 19-20, 2007 in Atlanta, GA
• EFAB Supports EPA's Private Activity Bond Initiative (PDF)(2 pp, 105K)
  
• The Use of Captive Insurance as a Financial Assurance Tool in Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response Programs (PDF)(14 pp, 367K)
• EFAB's Strategic Action Agenda Fiscal Years 2006-2007 (PDF)(6 pp, 49K)
• Sustainable Finance for Watersheds (PDF)(30 pp, 805K)
• Expanding the Definition of State Revolving Fund Financial Assistance (PDF)(16 pp, 310K)

2006

• EFAB's August 14-15, 2006 Meeting Summary (PDF)(41 pp, 261K)
• Captive Insurance as a Financial Assurance Tool Workshop Summary (PDF)(28 pp, 202K)
• Establishment of a New State Revolving Fund Loan Guaranty Program (PDF)(6 pp, 734K)
• Sustainable Watershed Financing Roundtable Training Session Meeting Summary (PDF)(22 pp, 167K)
• EFAB's March 7-8, 2006 Meeting Summary (PDF)(32 pp, 239K)
• Application of Useful Life Financing to State Revolving Funds (PDF)(11 pp, 1392K)
• Affordability Rate Design for Households (PDF)(11pp, 1.4M)
• EFAB initial findings concerning use of the financial test and corporate guarantees to
  meet financial assurance requirements under RCRA programs (Letter Report, PDF) (9 pp, 998K)

2005

• Maryland's Bay Restoration Fund Act (PDF) (6 pp, 660K)
• EFAB's Strategic Action Agenda, Fiscal Years 2005-2006
  
• Combined Operations of the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Funds (PDF)(12 pp, 50K)
• Application of Innovative Finance Techniques in the Transportation Infrastructure & Financial Innovation Act of 1998 (PDF)(11 pp, 85K)
  
• March 2005 Newsletter (PDF)(4 pp, 138K)
• Useful Life Financing of Environmental Facilities (PDF)(16 pp, 257K)
• Innovations in Watershed Financing Letter Report (PDF)(6 pp, 43K)
• Environmental Financial Advisory Board Fact Sheet (PDF)(1 pp, 28K)
• Environmental Financial Advisory Board Brochure (PDF)(2 pp, 145K)

2004

• Presentations from the Environmental Financial Advisory Board's August 2004 workshop on affordability

2003

• EFAB Winter 2003 full Board meeting, March 4-5, 2003, minutes (PDF)(6 pp, 52K)
  
• Protecting America's Land Legacy: Stewardship Policies, Tools, and Incentives to Protect and Restore America's Land Legacy (PDF)(29 pp, 154K)
  

EFAB Strategic Action Agenda:

• Fiscal Years 2008-2009 (PDF)(5 pp, 106K)
• Fiscal Years 2007-2008 (PDF)(6 pp, 49K)
• Fiscal Years 2005-2006 (PDF)(4 pp, 26K)
• Fiscal Years 2004-2005 (PDF)(5 pp, 163K)
• Fiscal Years 2003-2004 (PDF)(7 pp, 30K)
• Fiscal Years 2002-2003 (PDF)(9 pp, 28K)
• Fiscal Years 2001-2002 (PDF)(10 pp, 28K)
• Fiscal Years 2000-2001
• Fiscal Years 1999-2000