Different than access and quality, affordability.

We see huge needs there.

Absolutely, it is needed.

Will the projects that are now funded because of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will they be successful without funding operations and maintenance?

This hearing will come to order.

This is really, in my opinion, an interim State solution to what is fundamentally a Federal problem and responsibility.

Now it is time to move beyond the initial excitement over an influx of funding to tribal communities through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

It is about making sure that a parent in Indian Country can turn on the tap and not fear they will get their child sick.

I want to make clear for folks back home: The problems discussed today, this isn't a matter of technical infrastructure jargon or policy speak.

It only makes sense for the Federal Government to financially support the longer term viability of significant initial investments.

Thanks to the work of the bipartisan members of this Committee, Congress provided over $4 billion for tribal sanitation over the next 5 years via the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Is there something about the nature, the fundamental nature of the different types of water agencies that impacts for better or worse access to safe, clean drinking water by the different types of agencies, tribal versus other public…