Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 33 - Public Health - Local Governments And Rural Water Systems Improvements Board › Part 19 - Drinking Water Systems Improvements Revolving Loan Fund Program Regulations › Section 33-19-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-2023 EC Capitalization Grant amount of $9,568,000, the state plans to use
				$1,860,466 of the FFY-2023 EC Capitalization grant to support set-aside
				activities, further defined in the following Sections A and B. 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 EC IUP; additionally, progress reports will be included
				in the Annual Report. The state has elected not to take set-asides for Small
				Systems Technical Assistance and State Program Management from the FFY-2023 EC
				Cap Grant but reserves the right to make revisions to utilize additional funds
				from this set-aside.
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 EC Cap Grant are consistent with the DWSRF
				regulations. The State plans to use the maximum allowable (4%) for
				"Administrative" purposes from the FFY-2023 EC 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 EC FFY-2023 Cap Grant to provide funding for EC
				Test to ultra small systems serving a population of 300 or less. With approval
				by the Board, the state intends to use this set-aside to fund a contract for
				providing professional services to water systems with a population of less than
				300. This assistance with will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis
				to water systems serving a population of 300 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
The state does not intend to use this set-aside from the
				FFY-2023 EC 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 these funds in amended or future
				application to be used for Public Water System Supervision (PWSS) activities
				conducted under Section 1443(a) of the Act.
D.
Local Assistance and Other State
			 Programs
The state intends to use the first 10% of the 15% set-aside
				amount which is allowed from the FFY-2023 BIL EC Cap grant to provide funding
				for sampling for PFAS for water systems with population less than 1,000 but
				greater than 300 that are not currently required to sample for UCMR-5.
The state intends to use the remaining 5% of the 15% set-aside
				amount which is allowed from the FFY-2023 EC Cap grant to provide funding for
				sampling for PFAS for water systems with population less than 3,300 and greater
				than or equal to 1,000 that are not currently required to sample for
				UCMR-5.