As Chairman Bingaman has noted, Reclamation's analysis shows that an increase in funding for the construction of rural water projects to $80M per year would reduce the total Federal appropriations needed to complete the projects by more than $1B, due to project costs and inflation.
Bingaman emphasizes the financial benefits of increasing funding for rural water projects.
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