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Notice: 718011

Notice of Proposed Rule

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Chapter:

SMALL COMMUNITY WASTEWATER FACILITIES GRANTS

Overview

RULE:

62-505	SMALL COMMUNITY WASTEWATER FACILITIES GRANTS
62-505.100	Scope (Repealed)
62-505.200	Definitions
62-505.300	General Program Information
62-505.350	Grant Funding
62-505.360	Rural Hardship Community Grant Funding (Repealed)
62-505.420	Project Allowances (Repealed)
62-505.600	Priority List Information (Repealed)
62-505.655	Ranking Projects for Priority List Development (Repealed)
62-505.680	Priority List Management (Repealed)
62-505.700	Planning, Design, Construction, and Procurement Requirements (Repealed)
62-505.800	Audit Required (Repealed)
62-505.850	Exception to Program Requirements (Repealed)

PURPOSE:

The proposed rule incorporates a major restructuring.  It has been streamlined to remove redundancy and to make it easier to read.  The rural hardship community program is deleted because it is defunct.

SUMMARY:

The proposed rules would establish eligibilities; prerequisites for grant-in-aid; project priorities; procedures for obtaining grants; maximum grant amounts; grant percentages; requirements for planning, design, and construction; procurement; and responsibilities of the parties to grant agreements. Most construction grants would be a subsidy to the project sponsor’s State Revolving Fund loan repayments, or some other suitable funding mechanism. The loan repayment subsidy for construction activities would be based on a formula that would incorporate the project sponsor’s affordability index and a weighted average of its priority factors. The affordability index is an empirical number that is generated by a computer program developed for the Department by Florida State University and is based on a statistical analysis of the project sponsor’s median household income, poverty and unemployment census statistics from the most recent decennial census. Allowances would be eliminated. All elements included in a State Revolving Fund loan repayment would be eligible for grant funding at the grant percentage.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

403.1838, 403.1838(3)(a), (b) FS.

LAW:

403.1835, 403.1835(3)(a), (b), (d), (7), (10), 403.1838, 403.804 FS.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

9/29/2006 Vol. 32/39

COMMENTS:

From 9/29/2006 To 10/20/2006 (21 Days)
The public comment period for this notice has already expired.

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

No reference(s).

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