Texas Administrative Code › Title 31 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION › Part 10 - TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD › Chapter 371 - DRINKING WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS › Section 371.2 - Projects and Activities Eligible for Assistance

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Eligible projects. Projects that address
				  or prevent violations of health-based drinking water standards. These include
				  projects needed to maintain compliance with existing national primary drinking
				  water regulations for contaminants with acute and chronic health effects.
				  Projects to replace aging infrastructure are eligible for assistance if they
				  are needed to maintain compliance or further the public health protection
				  objectives of the Act. The specific projects and activities eligible for
				  assistance for a particular funding year will be established annually in the
				  IUP based on the eligible project categories and eligible project-related costs
				  in (b) and (c) of this section, as authorized by the Act.
(b) Eligible Project Categories.
(1) Treatment. Examples of projects include,
				  but are not limited to, installation or upgrade of facilities to improve the
				  quality of drinking water to comply with primary or secondary standards and
				  point of entry or central treatment under
				  42
				  U.S.C. §
												300f(4)(B)(i)(III).
(2) Transmission and distribution. Examples
				  of projects include, but are not limited to, installation or replacement of
				  transmission and distribution pipes to improve water pressure to safe levels or
				  to prevent contamination caused by leaks or breaks in the pipes.
(3) Source. Examples of projects include, but
				  are not limited to, rehabilitation of wells or development of eligible sources
				  to replace contaminated sources.
(4) Storage. Examples of projects include,
				  but are not limited to, installation or upgrade of eligible storage facilities,
				  including finished water reservoirs, to prevent microbiological contaminants
				  from entering a public water system.
(5) Consolidation. Eligible projects are
				  those needed to consolidate water supplies where, for example, a supply has
				  become contaminated or a system is unable to maintain compliance for technical,
				  financial, or managerial reasons.
(6) Creation of new systems. Eligible
				  projects are those that, upon completion, will create a community water system
				  to address existing public health problems with serious risks caused by unsafe
				  drinking water provided by individual wells or surface water sources. Eligible
				  projects are also those that create a new regional community water system by
				  consolidating existing systems that have technical, financial, or managerial
				  difficulties. Projects to address existing public health problems associated
				  with individual wells or surface water sources must be limited in scope to the
				  specific geographic area affected by contamination. Projects that create new
				  regional community water systems by consolidating existing systems must be
				  limited in scope to the service area of the systems being consolidated. A
				  project must be a cost-effective solution to addressing the problem. The
				  applicant must have given sufficient public notice to potentially affected
				  parties and must have considered alternative solutions to addressing the
				  problem. Capacity to serve future population growth cannot be a substantial
				  portion of a project.
(7) Green
				  Projects. Projects that qualify as green projects, in accordance with EPA
				  definitions, based upon information provided within the submitted project
				  information form, the application, and if necessary, the business
				  case.