# Environmental Financial Advisory Board Meeting
**AGENCY:**
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
**ACTION:**
Notice of open meeting of the Environmental Financial Advisory Board.
**SUMMARY:**
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) will hold a public meeting on February 20-21, 2018. EFAB is an EPA advisory committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act to provide advice and recommendations to EPA on creative approaches to funding environmental programs, projects, and activities.
**DATES:**
The full board meeting will be held Tuesday, February 20, 2018 from 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m., and Wednesday, February 22, 2018 from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
**ADDRESSES:**
Willard Intercontinental Washington Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20004.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
For information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, or to request accommodations for a disability, please contact Sandra Williams at (202) 564-4999 or *[email protected],* at least 10 days prior to the meeting to allow as much time as possible to process your request.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
The purpose of this meeting is to hear from informed speakers on environmental finance issues, proposed legislation, and EPA priorities; to discuss activities, progress, and preliminary recommendations with regard to current EFAB work projects; and to consider request for assistance from EPA program offices. Environmental finance discussions and presentations are expected on, but not limited to, the following topics: Predevelopment practices and funding tools that can assist local governments in evaluating public-private partnership as alternatives to current infrastructure delivery methods; developing metrics for measuring success of funding programs for water quality restoration in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed; financing and funding strategies that complement water system regionalization/consolidation; resilience investment and disaster recovery financing mechanisms; scoping and evaluation of a market-based Rural Alaska Waste Backhaul Service Program; and drinking water and clean water SRF funding to address lead fixture replacement projects. The meeting is open to the public; however, seating is limited. All members of the public who wish to attend the meeting must register, in advance, no later than Monday, January 26, 2018.
Dated: December 22, 2017.
Andrew Sawyers,
Director, Office of Wastewater Management, Office of Water.