Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 33 - Public Health - Local Governments And Rural Water Systems Improvements Board › Part 4 - Drinking Water Systems Improvements Revolving Loan Fund Program Regulations › Section 33-4-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
				state plans to use $1,931,204 of the FFY-2015 Federal Capitalization grant to
				support the non-project-related drinking water programs activities along with
				an additional $915,900 in state money needed for state program management
				match. 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 detailing how funds will be expended for the
				set-asides utilized are included as appendices within this IUP. Additionally,
				progress reports will be included in the Annual Report for those set-asides
				utilized. The state has elected not to take any additional set-asides from the
				FFY-2015 Local Assistance and Other State Programs appropriation, but reserves
				the right to make revisions to utilize additional funds from this
				set-aside.
A.
Administration
Standard Capitalization Grant
The state plans to reserve for use at a later date the 4%
				administrative set-aside from the FFY-2015 Capitalization Grant ($366,360); the
				state will use the 4% administrative set-aside amount previously reserved from
				the FFY-2003 Capitalization Grant ($320,164) by taking an equal amount from the
				FFY-2015 Capitalization Grant for the administration of the Program in
				FFY-2015. This change will decrease the total set-aside amount for the FFY-2015
				Cap grant from $1,965,440 to $1,919,244. Costs beyond this set aside amount
				will be paid from the funds generated by the 5% administrative fee taken from
				loan repayments.
The state will continue to exercise its right to reserve the
				Administrative amounts from the FFY-2009 Cap Grant ($325,840), the remaining
				balance of the FFY-2010 Cap Grant ($282,500), the FFY-2011 Cap Grant ($392,080)
				and the FFY-2014 Cap Grant ($366,360). These amounts are planned to be taken
				from future capitalization grants (over the next several years) for
				administration of the Program. Reserving previous years' 4% administrative
				set-aside will ensure that the Program will continue to operate with an
				adequate DWSIRLF staff for proper management of the Program. The reserved
				set-aside amounts are based on the original capitalization grants awarded
				during those previous fiscal years.
B.
Small System Technical
			 Assistance
Standard Capitalization Grant
The state will use the Small Systems Technical Assistance (2%)
				set-aside from the FFY-2015 Cap Grant ($183,180) to provide technical
				assistance to public water systems serving areas with populations of 10,000 or
				less. With approval by the Board, the state intends to use this set-aside to
				fund contracts for the following activities: Special Technical Assistance to
				Referred Systems; Board Management Training for Water System Officials; On-Site
				Technical Assistance; PEER Review Program; and Hands-on Operator Training. Each
				of these activities is described in detail in the State of Mississippi's Small
				Systems Technical Assistance Set-Aside Work Plan included as Appendix F to this
				IUP.
C.
State Program
			 Management
Standard Capitalization Grant
The state intends to use the full 10% set-aside from the
				FFY-2015 Cap grant ($915,900), as authorized by Section 1452(g)(2) of the Safe
				Drinking Water Act of 1996 for State Program Management. The funds will be used
				for Public Water System Supervision (PWSS) activities conducted under Section
				1443(a) of the Act. These activities are described in more detail in the State
				of Mississippi's State Program Management Set-aside Annual Work Plan included
				as Appendix G to this IUP. The state must provide a dollar-for-dollar match
				(100% match) for the Cap grant funds used for these activities. The
				dollar-for-dollar match is in addition to the twenty (20%) percent state match
				required for the Cap grant.
The state is allowed to offset the 100% match requirement by
				claiming credit for State FFY-2015 PWSS expenditures that exceed the State's
				FFY-2015 PWSS match requirement. The state is further allowed to use state
				FFY-2015 PWSS expenditures as a "coupon" to offset the 100% match requirement
				as long as this amount does not exceed the amount that can be claimed from
				FFY-2015 expenditures. The MSDH Bureau of Public Water Supply has elected to
				decline the "coupon" since it sees this as providing no additional monetary
				benefit to the State Program Management Program.
A tabulation showing amount and source of funds to satisfy
				match requirements for the FFY-2015 State Program Management set-aside is
				furnished as Appendix H to this IUP.
D.
Local Assistance and Other State
			 Programs
The state intends to use $500,000 (5.46%) of the 15% set-aside
				amount which is allowed from the FFY-2015 Cap grant to provide funding for
				wellhead protection projects throughout the state. These funds will be used to
				properly abandon inactive wells that pose a risk to existing active public
				water supply source water wells, as well as the
				environment.