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Prioritizing
Drinking Water Needs
The Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) program requires that
States develop a priority system for funding infrastructure projects based
on three criteria from the 1996 Amendments of the Safe Drinking Water
Act. States are required to solicit and consider public comment when
developing their priority systems. Projects are ranked and funding is
offered to the highest ranked projects that are ready to proceed. Priority
is given to those eligible projects that:
- address the most serious risk to human health;
- are necessary to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Safe
Drinking Water Act; and,
- assist systems most in need, on a per household basis, according to
State-determined affordability criteria.
EPA has collected the priority systems developed by States for their
FY1997 capitalization grants into a compendium, Prioritizing Drinking
Water Needs: A compilation of State priority systems for the Drinking
Water State Revolving Fund Program. The compendium includes a summary
of the priority system for each State and the complete priority system.
The files are in Acrobat PDF format. The document is provided both in
its entirety and divided into two sections. If you don't know what Region
your State is in, click here.
The document also includes a directory of States and their respective
Regions.
Priority System Compendium:
- Part I
- Regions I-V (PDF, 796 KB)
- Part II
- Regions VI-X (PDF, 620 KB)
- Entire Document
- Regions I-X (PDF, 1347 KB)
Users are encouraged to download the files to their computer for their
use. However, if this is not an option, copies may be ordered through
the Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791.
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