Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Proposed FFY2006 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. States must file capitalization grant applications each year with the United States Environmental Protection 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 IUP also contains the FFY2005 and the FFY2006 schedules. Please note that several significant changes were made to the revised IUP, such as adding a 'Second Chance' schedule for the FFY2006 cycle, and also a new 'Emergency Repair Projects' addition to the list of eligible projects. The order of project priority will be revised as shown on page 12. Projects that address public health issues would be given the highest priority.This record consists of four documents, a Microsoft Word file and an Excel file, and also Adobe Acrobat (PDF) versions of those files. They can be accessed through the accompanying web page.Purpose: To report on the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund for 2006