Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 33 - Public Health - Local Governments And Rural Water Systems Improvements Board › Part 14 - Drinking Water Systems Improvements Revolving Loan Fund Program Regulations - DW SRF Lead Service Line Replacement Intended Use Plan › Section 33-14-V - Set-Aside Activities

Current through June 25, 2024
The SDWA allows each state to set-aside up to 31 percent of its
				federal Cap grant to support non-project-related drinking water programs which
				includes administration of the loan program, technical assistance to public
				water systems, state program management, and other special activities. The
				FFY-2022 LSLR Capitalization Grant amount of $30,518,000, the state plans to
				use $5,415,173 of the FFY-2022 LSLR Capitalization grant to support set-aside
				activities, further defined in the following Sections A through D. These
				non-project-related programs will be operated by MSDH within the agency itself
				or through contracts with other agencies or organizations. Contracts between
				the MSDH and other agencies or organizations will be approved by the Board.
				Work plans showing how the set-asides funds will be expended are included as
				appendices within this LSLR IUP; additionally, progress reports will be
				included in the Annual Report.
A.
Administration
The SDWA-DWSRF amendments in the 2017 Water Infrastructure
				Improvements for the Nation Act (
				Pub. L.
				114-332 ) (2017 WIIN Act - EPA memorandum dated
				June 6, 2017) states that the Administrative Set-Asides that can be taken the
				greatest of: $400,000, 1/5 percent of the current valuation of the fund, or an
				amount equal to 4 percent of all grant awards to the fund for the fiscal year.
				The EPA Combined SRF BIL Implementation Memo dated March 8, 2022 states that
				set-asides for the LSLR Cap Grant are consistent with the DWSRF regulations.
				The State plans to use the maximum allowable (4%) for "Administrative" purposes
				from the FFY-2022 LSLR Cap Grant.
The state will continue to exercise its right to reserve the
				administrative amounts from previous Cap Grants. Reserving previous years' 4%
				administrative set-aside can ensure that the Program will continue to operate
				with an adequate DWSIRLF staff for proper management of the Program.
B.
Small System Technical
			 Assistance
The state will use the Small Systems Technical Assistance (up
				to 2%) set-aside from the BIL LSLR FFY-2022 Cap Grant to provide funding for
				LSL inventories to ultra small systems serving 750 connection or less. With
				approval by the Board, the state intends to use this set-aside to fund a
				contract for providing professional services for lead service line inventories
				to water systems with a connections of less than 750. This assistance with lead
				service line inventories will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis
				to water systems serving connections of 750 or less. More detail is provided in
				the State of Mississippi's Set-Aside Work Plan included as Appendix E to this
				IUP.
C.
State Program
			 Management
At this time, the state does not intend to use the 10%
				set-aside from the FFY-2022 LSLR Cap grant, as authorized by Section 1452(g)
				(2) of the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1996 for State Program Management related
				to LCRR and LSLR. The program reserves the right to utilize these funds for
				Public Water System Supervision (PWSS) activities conducted under Section
				1443(a) of the Act from future LSLR related grant provide through the
				Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
D.
Local Assistance and Other State
			 Programs
The state intends to use the of the 15% set-aside amount
				allowed for Local Assistance from the FFY-2022 BIL LSLR Cap grant to provide
				funding for LSL inventories to public water systems serving varying levels of
				connections as outline in the attached workplan.
With approval by the Board, the state intends to use this
				set-aside to fund contract(s) for providing professional services for lead
				service line inventories to water systems of three separate size categories:
				A.) small systems serving connections of less than 750 with Small System
				Technical Assistance set-aside. B.) medium systems serving connections of
				greater than 750 but less than 5,000 (not to exceed 10% of the allotment) and
				C) large system serving connections of greater than 5,000 (not to exceed 10% of
				the allotment). This assistance with lead service line inventories will be
				available on a first-come, first-serve basis to water systems serving a
				population that falls within the three size categories as defined in this
				section. The State of Mississippi's Set-aside Work Plan is included as Appendix
				E.