Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: Final FFY05 Priority System, Intended Use Plan, Project Priority List, and Proposed Changes to FFY 2004 Priority System, Intended Use Plan, and Project Priority List

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Amendments of 1996 authorized a Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) to assist publicly and privately owned community water systems and nonprofit noncommunity water systems to achieve or maintain compliance with SDWA requirements and to further the public health objectives of the SDWA. The DWSRF is administered as a component of the Environmental Infrastructure Financing Program that also administers the state's Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund (CWSRF). States must file capitalization grant applications each year with the United States Environmental Agency (USEPA) to secure an allotment of federal funds needed to initialize and to continue the DWSRF at the State level. The central component of the State's application to the USEPA is the Intended Use Plan (IUP). The IUP describes how the State intends to spend the federal grant moneys, including eligible projects and non-project set-aside expenditures. The non-project set-asides are allowed by the DWSRF for activities that are not construction related, e.g., administration, technical assistance for small systems, State public water system supervision (PWSS), source water program administration, capacity development, and operator certification. Project expenditures typically involve loans by the DWSRF to water systems for planning, design, and construction of drinking water facilities. This document serves as the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP) DWSRF Priority System, Intended Use Plan, and Project Priority List, and has several purposes regarding the use of anticipated federal funds