Max Baucus: “One other question. What happens when a community decides, for whatever reason, it wants to voluntarily not accept…”

“One other question. What happens when a community decides, for whatever reason, it wants to voluntarily not accept Federal funds. It does not want to pay the interest rate in the State revolving loan fund, for whatever reason. It decides it does not want to participate in the State revolving loan program? In that case, would Federal prosecution be precluded because the mandate on this system does not have commensurate Federal funds? It does not in this case because the community has decided it does not want them. Would Federal enforcement therefore be precluded?”