Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 567 - Environmental Protection Commission › Title II - Air Quality › Division B › Chapter 44 - Drinking Water State Revolving Fund › Rule 567-44.5 - Set-asides

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) authorizes set-aside
					 funds to enable states to implement specific requirements of the SDWA. The
					 amount and use of set-aside money is set each year in the IUP pursuant to rule
					 567-448. (455B)
					 and may be adjusted from year to year based on available funds and priorities
					 as outlined in the IUP. As prescribed in the SDWA, set-asides will include but
					 are not limited to:
(1)
Administration expense set-aside.
These set-aside funds are to
				  be used to administer the DWSRF. Up to 4 percent of the funds allotted through
				  federal capitalization grants may be used for the reasonable costs of
				  administering the programs and providing technical assistance. These costs may
				  include such activities as issuing debt; DWSRF program start-up costs; audit
				  costs; financial, management and legal consulting fees; development of IUP and
				  priority ranking system; development of affordability criteria; and cost of
				  support services provided by other state agencies. If the entire 4 percent is
				  not obligated for administrative costs in one year, the excess balance may be
				  reserved and used for administrative costs in later years.
(2)
Small system technical assistance
				  set-aside.
These set-aside funds will be used to provide technical
				  assistance to public water supplies serving 10,000 people or fewer. Up to 2
				  percent of funds allotted through federal capitalization grants may be used for
				  this purpose. These funds may be used to support a technical assistance team or
				  to contract with outside organizations to provide technical assistance.
				  Applications for third-party technical assistance proposals must be submitted
				  and will be accepted and evaluated pursuant to subrules 44.7(2) through 44.7(7)
				  prior to publication of the IUP in a given year. If the entire 2 percent is not
				  obligated for these activities in one year, the excess balance may be reserved
				  and used for the same activities in later years.
(3)
Local assistance and other state
				  programs set-aside.
Funds from this set-aside may be used for other
				  categories of activities to assist development or implementation of local
				  drinking water protection initiatives or both. Up to 15 percent of the
				  capitalization grant amount may be used for the following activities, with the
				  stipulation that not more than 10 percent of the capitalization grant amount
				  may be used for any one activity:
a.
				  Assistance, in the form of a loan, to a public water system to acquire land or
				  a conservation easement for source water protection purposes;
b. Assistance, in the form of a loan, to a
				  community water system to implement voluntary, incentive-based source water
				  quality protection measures;
c.
				  Establishment and implementation of wellhead protection programs; and
d. Provision of funding to a public water
				  system to implement technical or financial assistance under the capacity
				  development strategy.
Source water (quality partnership) petition programs (made
					 by individual or consortiums of public water systems) established under Section
					 1454 of the SDWA amendments of 1996 (PL. 104-182, August 6,1996) will be
					 eligible for money under this set-aside. Applications for third-party source
					 water petition proposals must be submitted and will be accepted and evaluated
					 pursuant to subrules 44.7(2) through 44.7(7) prior to publication of the IUP in
					 a given year. These funds may not be reserved for future use.