{"id":14510,"date":"2014-02-07T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=14510"},"modified":"2014-02-07T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:03:07","slug":"water-pollution-loan-program-adopted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=14510","title":{"rendered":"Water pollution loan program adopted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A program to fund wastewater treatment efforts was given final approval by the Legislature Feb. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced by Holdrege Sen. Tom Carlson, LB514 authorizes the state Department of Environmental Quality to create and regulate a linked deposit program. The program will promote loans for the construction, rehabilitation and enhancement of water pollution control projects.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also authorizes a portion of loan funds to be deposited with eligible financial institutions in low-yielding deposit accounts, certificates of deposit or other agreed upon deposits for loans at a rate lower than the prevailing rate.<\/p>\n<p>The department also can buy or refinance debt of municipalities for wastewater treatment works under LB514.<\/p>\n<p>Senators passed the bill on a 44-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A program to fund wastewater treatment efforts was given final approval by the Legislature Feb. 7. Introduced by Holdrege Sen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-14510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-resources","tag-sen-tom-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14525,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510\/revisions\/14525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}