Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: Final FFY04 Priority System, Intended Use Plan, Project Priority List and Response Document, and Final Changes to FFY 2003 Intended Use Plan

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Amendments of 1996 authorized a Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) to assist publicly-owned and privately-owned community water systems and nonprofit noncommunity water systems to finance the costs of infrastructure needed to achieve or maintain compliance with SDWA requirements and to protect the public health in conformance with the objectives of the SDWA. This document serves as the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP) Priority System, Intended Use Plan (IUP) and Project Priority List and has several purposes regarding the use of anticipated federal funds; including: 1) the establishment of the ranking criteria under which DWSRF projects will be ranked and placed on the FFY2004 Priority List; 2) the establishment of program requirements and document submittal deadlines for award of DWSRF loans in State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2004 using FFY2003 federal capitalization grant funds and funds from previous federal capitalization grant funds; 3) the establishment of program requirements and document submittal deadlines for award of DWSRF loans in SFY2005 using FFY2004 federal capitalization grant funds and funds from previous federal capitalization grant funds; and 4) the establishment of the proposed uses of the set-asides using FFY2004 federal capitalization grant funds