Several Republican Wisconsin legislators want Governor Tony Evers to direct millions of dollars from the American Rescue Plan to pay for clean water programs.
Assembly bill 243 would allocate 40-million dollars to the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program through the Department of Natural Resources to replace lead lines, 12-million for the Urban Nonpoint Source program, six and a half million for the Rural Nonpoint Program, two million for the Well Compensation Grant Program, and 500-thousand dollars towards well testing and public education.
