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Notice Regarding National Pollutant
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issued its initial Section 401
certification for the 2008 MSGP on
February 13, 2006; with subsequent
modifications thereto dated June 8, 2006
and September 5, 2006. In a modified
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required benchmark monitoring
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State Allotment Percentages for the
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
Program
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is
announcing the revised Drinking Water
State Revolving Fund (DWSRF)
allotments that will be provided to the
States, the District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, U.S. Territories, American Indian
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Tribes, and Alaska Native Villages if the
President’s budget request for Fiscal
Year 2010 is enacted. These allotments
reflect the results from EPA’s most
recent Drinking Water Infrastructure
Needs Survey and Assessment, which
was released on March 26, 2009. The
revised State allotment percentages will
be the basis for distributing the DWSRF
program appropriations to the States for
the four years from Fiscal Years 2010
through 2013.
DATES: This notice is effective May 28,
2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
inquiries, contact Travis Creighton,
Drinking Water Protection Division,
Office of Ground Water and Drinking
Water (4606M), Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: (202) 564–3858; fax
number: (202) 564–3757; e–mail
address: Creighton.travis@epa.gov.
Copies of this document and
information on the Drinking Water
Infrastructure Needs Survey and
Assessment and the DWSRF program
can be found on EPA’s Office of Ground
Water and Drinking Water Web site at
https://www.epa.gov/safewater/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 1996
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
Amendments established a DWSRF
program and Congress has appropriated
$10.3 billion, in total, for the program
since its inception through Fiscal Year
(FY) 2009. Congress directed that
allotments for FY 1998 and each
subsequent year would be distributed
among States based on the results of an
assessment by EPA of the relative
infrastructure investment needs of the
drinking water systems within each
state (SDWA section 1452(a)(1)(D)(ii)),
which must be conducted every four
years.
EPA’s Drinking Water Infrastructure
Needs Survey and Assessment
EPA’s first assessment, which
reflected 1995 survey data, was released
in February 1997; the second
assessment, which reflected 1999 survey
data, was released in February 2001;
and the 2003 assessment was released in
2005. The 2007 Drinking Water
Infrastructure Needs Survey and
Assessment (Needs Assessment) was
released on March 26, 2009 (EPA 816–
R–09–001).
The 2007 Needs Assessment was
completed in cooperation with the
States. The States participated in both
the design of the survey and in the
collection of data. The survey examined
the needs of water systems and used
these data to determine the aggregate
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infrastructure investment needs of
drinking water systems within each
individual State. The survey included:
All of the nation’s 584 largest systems,
each serving over 100,000 people; a
statistical sample of 2,266 systems, each
serving 3,301–100,000 people; and a
statistical sample of 600 small water
systems, each serving fewer than 3,301
people.
The sample design for the survey and
assessment produces a statistically–
valid State–by–State bottom–line
estimate of the total need, which reflects
the capital costs for all drinking water
infrastructure projects allowed for
inclusion in the survey. The 2007 Needs
Assessment also presents capital needs
for each State by system size and by
category of need (i.e., treatment,
distribution and transmission, storage,
source, and ‘‘other’’).
In general, an infrastructure project
was included in the Needs Assessment
if project documentation demonstrated
that meeting the need would address the
public health objectives of SDWA. The
total State need includes both projects
that are currently needed and future
projects that will be needed over the
next 20 years. Projects to correct
immediate public health threats (e.g.,
replacing a deteriorated filter plant) are
given the same weight in the assessment
as less critical needs (e.g., replacing a
storage tank that is expected to reach the
end of its useful life in five years). The
Needs Assessment excluded capital
projects that are ineligible for DWSRF
program assistance, such as dams,
reservoirs and projects needed solely for
growth.
The 2007 Needs Assessment found
that the total national need is $334.8
billion (Table 1). This estimate
represents the needs of the
approximately 52,000 community water
systems and 21,400 not-for-profit noncommunity water systems that are
eligible to receive DWSRF program
assistance. These systems are found in
all 50 States, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, on American Indian lands
and in Alaska Native Villages, and the
Virgin Island and Pacific Island
territories.
TABLE 1—2007 DRINKING WATER INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS SURVEY AND
ASSESSMENT 20-YEAR NEEDS—
Continued
Type of need
Need
(billions)
Costs for Proposed and Recent Regulations .................
7.0
Total National Need ........
334.8
Note: Numbers may not total due to
rounding.
The total national need also includes
$7.0 billion in capital needs associated
with recently promulgated and
proposed regulations, as identified in
EPA Economic Analyses accompanying
the rules. Although these needs are
included in the total national need, they
were not apportioned to the States based
on the unanimous recommendation of
the State representatives who
participated in the survey design. The
States expressed concern that the
methods available for allocating the
costs of these more recent or proposed
regulations would not yet be
represented in the capital improvement
plans of water systems at the time of the
2007 survey. The total State need,
which is the figure that EPA will use to
calculate the State allotments, includes
only the needs of the 50 States, the
District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
The 2007 Needs Assessment estimates
that the total State need is $324.0
billion.
Allocation Method
On October 31, 1996, EPA solicited
public comment on six options for using
the results of the first Drinking Water
Infrastructure Needs Survey and
Assessment to allocate DWSRF program
funds to the States (61 FR 56231). On
March 18, 1997, EPA announced its
decision to allocate DWSRF program
funds for FYs 1998 through 2001
appropriations based on each State’s
proportional share of the total eligible
needs for the States as derived from the
1995 Needs Assessment (62 FR 12900).
EPA used this same method when
allocating DWSRF program funds for
FYs 2002 through 2005, utilizing the
results of the 1999 Needs Assessment,
TABLE 1—2007 DRINKING WATER IN- and for FYs 2006 through 2009, utilizing
FRASTRUCTURE NEEDS SURVEY AND the results of the 2003 Needs
ASSESSMENT 20-YEAR NEEDS
Assessment. EPA has made the
determination that it will continue to
Need
use this method for allocating DWSRF
Type of need
(billions)
program funds for FYs 2010 through
States ......................................
$324.0 2013 appropriations, utilizing the
Territories ................................
0.9 results of the 2007 Needs Assessment.
The funds available to the States will
American Indian and Alaska
Native Villages ....................
2.9 be the level of funds appropriated by
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Congress, less the national set-asides,
which includes an allocation for
American Indian and Alaska Native
Village water systems. Of the funds
available to States, the SDWA includes
specific allocations for the Pacific
Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the
District of Columbia. Each State will
receive an allotment of DWSRF program
funds based on its proportional share of
the total State need ($324.0 billion),
provided that each State receives a
minimum allocation of one percent of
the funds available to States, as required
by the SDWA. The 2007 Needs
Assessment found that 20 States, Puerto
Rico, and the District of Columbia each
had less than one percent of the total
national need; for 2010 to 2013, each of
these DWSRF grantees will be eligible
for one percent of the annual DWSRF
funds made available to States (or, in
aggregate, 22 percent of the total
DWSRF funds made available to States).
President’s Request for Allotments for
American Indian and Alaska Native
Water Systems and for United States
Territories
The President’s budget request for FY
2010 includes an increase in the
minimum funding to be made available
to American Indian and Alaska Native
water systems from 1.5% to 2.0% of the
total funding appropriated for the
DWSRF. The President also requested
an increase in the minimum funding to
be made available to United States
Territories from 0.33% to 1.5% of the
total available to the States, the District
of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Allocation of Funds
Table 2 contains each State’s expected
DWSRF program allotment based on an
appropriation of $1,500,000,000 and
national set-aside assumptions. The
appropriation amount is based on the
President’s budget request of
$1,500,000,000 for FY 2010. The
national set-asides for Fiscal Year 2010
include funds for American Indian and
Alaska Native Village water systems at
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the level of 2.0% percent of the total
appropriation or $30,000,000 for FY
2010 under the President’s budget
request. An additional national set-aside
for FY 2010 includes $2,000,000 for
monitoring for unregulated
contaminants. If funds are appropriated
for the DWSRF program at the level of
$1,500,000,000, the total funds available
to the States, the District of Columbia,
and Territories would equal
$1,468,000,000. Because the percentages
are based on allotting all available funds
annually to the States regardless of the
year in the four-year cycle, they can be
used for general planning purposes for
the entire four-year cycle. Once the
appropriated amount and national setasides are known, a State’s allotment
can be estimated by subtracting the
national set-asides from the total funds
available for allotment and then
applying the appropriate percentage
shown below. For succeeding years,
EPA will annually notify each State of
their allotment from a specific fiscal
year’s appropriation after the final
budget has been passed.
TABLE 2—DWSRF STATE PERCENTAGES AND DOLLAR ALLOTMENTS BASED ON THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET REQUEST FOR
FY 2010 AND THE 2007 NEEDS ASSESSMENT
FY 2010
allotment ($)
State
Alabama ...........................................................................................................................................................
Alaska ..............................................................................................................................................................
Arizona .............................................................................................................................................................
Arkansas ..........................................................................................................................................................
California ..........................................................................................................................................................
Colorado ..........................................................................................................................................................
Connecticut ......................................................................................................................................................
Delaware ..........................................................................................................................................................
Florida ..............................................................................................................................................................
Georgia ............................................................................................................................................................
Hawaii ..............................................................................................................................................................
Idaho ................................................................................................................................................................
Illinois ...............................................................................................................................................................
Indiana .............................................................................................................................................................
Iowa .................................................................................................................................................................
Kansas .............................................................................................................................................................
Kentucky ..........................................................................................................................................................
Louisiana ..........................................................................................................................................................
Maine ...............................................................................................................................................................
Maryland ..........................................................................................................................................................
Massachusetts .................................................................................................................................................
Michigan ...........................................................................................................................................................
Minnesota ........................................................................................................................................................
Mississippi ........................................................................................................................................................
Missouri ............................................................................................................................................................
Montana ...........................................................................................................................................................
Nebraska ..........................................................................................................................................................
Nevada .............................................................................................................................................................
New Hampshire ...............................................................................................................................................
New Jersey ......................................................................................................................................................
New Mexico .....................................................................................................................................................
New York .........................................................................................................................................................
North Carolina ..................................................................................................................................................
North Dakota ....................................................................................................................................................
Ohio .................................................................................................................................................................
Oklahoma .........................................................................................................................................................
Oregon .............................................................................................................................................................
Pennsylvania ....................................................................................................................................................
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18,196,000
14,680,000
29,483,000
22,215,000
137,318,000
26,038,000
14,680,000
14,680,000
47,932,000
34,688,000
14,680,000
14,680,000
55,411,000
24,485,000
25,060,000
17,960,000
21,191,000
27,742,000
14,680,000
22,777,000
27,367,000
44,591,000
24,635,000
15,278,000
28,375,000
14,680,000
14,680,000
14,680,000
14,680,000
31,361,000
14,680,000
96,724,000
38,497,000
14,680,000
47,168,000
18,239,000
14,680,000
43,011,000
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(%)
1.24
1.00
2.01
1.51
9.35
1.77
1.00
1.00
3.27
2.36
1.00
1.00
3.77
1.67
1.71
1.22
1.44
1.89
1.00
1.55
1.86
3.04
1.68
1.04
1.93
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
2.14
1.00
6.59
2.62
1.00
3.21
1.24
1.00
2.93
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TABLE 2—DWSRF STATE PERCENTAGES AND DOLLAR ALLOTMENTS BASED ON THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET REQUEST FOR
FY 2010 AND THE 2007 NEEDS ASSESSMENT—Continued
FY 2010
allotment ($)
State
2010 allotment
(%)
Puerto Rico ......................................................................................................................................................
Rhode Island ....................................................................................................................................................
South Carolina .................................................................................................................................................
South Dakota ...................................................................................................................................................
Tennessee .......................................................................................................................................................
Texas ...............................................................................................................................................................
Utah .................................................................................................................................................................
Vermont ...........................................................................................................................................................
Virginia .............................................................................................................................................................
Washington ......................................................................................................................................................
West Virginia ....................................................................................................................................................
Wisconsin .........................................................................................................................................................
Wyoming ..........................................................................................................................................................
District of Columbia .........................................................................................................................................
U.S. Territories* ...............................................................................................................................................
14,680,000
14,680,000
14,680,000
14,680,000
16,315,000
93,293,000
14,680,000
14,680,000
24,885,000
37,477,000
14,680,000
25,308,000
14,680,000
14,680,000
22,020,000
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.11
6.36
1.00
1.00
1.70
2.55
1.00
1.72
1.00
1.00
1.50
Total Funds Available to the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Territories ..........
1,468,000,000
............................
American Indian & Alaska Native Water Systems ..........................................................................................
Monitoring for Unregulated Contaminants .......................................................................................................
30,000,000
2,000,000
............................
............................
Total SRF Appropriation ...........................................................................................................................
1,500,000,000
............................
* Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Dated: May 14, 2009.
Paul F. Simon,
Acting Director, Office of Ground Water and
Drinking Water.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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State Allotment Percentages for the Drinking Water State
Revolving Fund Program
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is announcing the revised Drinking Water
State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) allotments that will be provided to the
States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Territories,
American Indian
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Tribes, and Alaska Native Villages if the President's budget request
for Fiscal Year 2010 is enacted. These allotments reflect the results
from EPA's most recent Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and
Assessment, which was released on March 26, 2009. The revised State
allotment percentages will be the basis for distributing the DWSRF
program appropriations to the States for the four years from Fiscal
Years 2010 through 2013.
DATES: This notice is effective May 28, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For inquiries, contact Travis
Creighton, Drinking Water Protection Division, Office of Ground Water
and Drinking Water (4606M), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
564-3858; fax number: (202) 564-3757; e-mail address:
Creighton.travis@epa.gov. Copies of this document and information on
the Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment and the
DWSRF program can be found on EPA's Office of Ground Water and Drinking
Water Web site at https://www.epa.gov/safewater/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
Amendments established a DWSRF program and Congress has appropriated
$10.3 billion, in total, for the program since its inception through
Fiscal Year (FY) 2009. Congress directed that allotments for FY 1998
and each subsequent year would be distributed among States based on the
results of an assessment by EPA of the relative infrastructure
investment needs of the drinking water systems within each state (SDWA
section 1452(a)(1)(D)(ii)), which must be conducted every four years.
EPA's Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment
EPA's first assessment, which reflected 1995 survey data, was
released in February 1997; the second assessment, which reflected 1999
survey data, was released in February 2001; and the 2003 assessment was
released in 2005. The 2007 Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey
and Assessment (Needs Assessment) was released on March 26, 2009 (EPA
816-R-09-001).
The 2007 Needs Assessment was completed in cooperation with the
States. The States participated in both the design of the survey and in
the collection of data. The survey examined the needs of water systems
and used these data to determine the aggregate infrastructure
investment needs of drinking water systems within each individual
State. The survey included: All of the nation's 584 largest systems,
each serving over 100,000 people; a statistical sample of 2,266
systems, each serving 3,301-100,000 people; and a statistical sample of
600 small water systems, each serving fewer than 3,301 people.
The sample design for the survey and assessment produces a
statistically-valid State-by-State bottom-line estimate of the total
need, which reflects the capital costs for all drinking water
infrastructure projects allowed for inclusion in the survey. The 2007
Needs Assessment also presents capital needs for each State by system
size and by category of need (i.e., treatment, distribution and
transmission, storage, source, and ``other'').
In general, an infrastructure project was included in the Needs
Assessment if project documentation demonstrated that meeting the need
would address the public health objectives of SDWA. The total State
need includes both projects that are currently needed and future
projects that will be needed over the next 20 years. Projects to
correct immediate public health threats (e.g., replacing a deteriorated
filter plant) are given the same weight in the assessment as less
critical needs (e.g., replacing a storage tank that is expected to
reach the end of its useful life in five years). The Needs Assessment
excluded capital projects that are ineligible for DWSRF program
assistance, such as dams, reservoirs and projects needed solely for
growth.
The 2007 Needs Assessment found that the total national need is
$334.8 billion (Table 1). This estimate represents the needs of the
approximately 52,000 community water systems and 21,400 not-for-profit
non-community water systems that are eligible to receive DWSRF program
assistance. These systems are found in all 50 States, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, on American Indian lands and in Alaska Native
Villages, and the Virgin Island and Pacific Island territories.
Table 1--2007 Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment
20-Year Needs
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Need
Type of need (billions)
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States.................................................... $324.0
Territories............................................... 0.9
American Indian and Alaska Native Villages................ 2.9
Costs for Proposed and Recent Regulations................. 7.0
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Total National Need................................... 334.8
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Note: Numbers may not total due to rounding.
The total national need also includes $7.0 billion in capital needs
associated with recently promulgated and proposed regulations, as
identified in EPA Economic Analyses accompanying the rules. Although
these needs are included in the total national need, they were not
apportioned to the States based on the unanimous recommendation of the
State representatives who participated in the survey design. The States
expressed concern that the methods available for allocating the costs
of these more recent or proposed regulations would not yet be
represented in the capital improvement plans of water systems at the
time of the 2007 survey. The total State need, which is the figure that
EPA will use to calculate the State allotments, includes only the needs
of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The 2007
Needs Assessment estimates that the total State need is $324.0 billion.
Allocation Method
On October 31, 1996, EPA solicited public comment on six options
for using the results of the first Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs
Survey and Assessment to allocate DWSRF program funds to the States (61
FR 56231). On March 18, 1997, EPA announced its decision to allocate
DWSRF program funds for FYs 1998 through 2001 appropriations based on
each State's proportional share of the total eligible needs for the
States as derived from the 1995 Needs Assessment (62 FR 12900). EPA
used this same method when allocating DWSRF program funds for FYs 2002
through 2005, utilizing the results of the 1999 Needs Assessment, and
for FYs 2006 through 2009, utilizing the results of the 2003 Needs
Assessment. EPA has made the determination that it will continue to use
this method for allocating DWSRF program funds for FYs 2010 through
2013 appropriations, utilizing the results of the 2007 Needs
Assessment.
The funds available to the States will be the level of funds
appropriated by
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Congress, less the national set-asides, which includes an allocation
for American Indian and Alaska Native Village water systems. Of the
funds available to States, the SDWA includes specific allocations for
the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia.
Each State will receive an allotment of DWSRF program funds based on
its proportional share of the total State need ($324.0 billion),
provided that each State receives a minimum allocation of one percent
of the funds available to States, as required by the SDWA. The 2007
Needs Assessment found that 20 States, Puerto Rico, and the District of
Columbia each had less than one percent of the total national need; for
2010 to 2013, each of these DWSRF grantees will be eligible for one
percent of the annual DWSRF funds made available to States (or, in
aggregate, 22 percent of the total DWSRF funds made available to
States).
President's Request for Allotments for American Indian and Alaska
Native Water Systems and for United States Territories
The President's budget request for FY 2010 includes an increase in
the minimum funding to be made available to American Indian and Alaska
Native water systems from 1.5% to 2.0% of the total funding
appropriated for the DWSRF. The President also requested an increase in
the minimum funding to be made available to United States Territories
from 0.33% to 1.5% of the total available to the States, the District
of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Allocation of Funds
Table 2 contains each State's expected DWSRF program allotment
based on an appropriation of $1,500,000,000 and national set-aside
assumptions. The appropriation amount is based on the President's
budget request of $1,500,000,000 for FY 2010. The national set-asides
for Fiscal Year 2010 include funds for American Indian and Alaska
Native Village water systems at the level of 2.0% percent of the total
appropriation or $30,000,000 for FY 2010 under the President's budget
request. An additional national set-aside for FY 2010 includes
$2,000,000 for monitoring for unregulated contaminants. If funds are
appropriated for the DWSRF program at the level of $1,500,000,000, the
total funds available to the States, the District of Columbia, and
Territories would equal $1,468,000,000. Because the percentages are
based on allotting all available funds annually to the States
regardless of the year in the four-year cycle, they can be used for
general planning purposes for the entire four-year cycle. Once the
appropriated amount and national set-asides are known, a State's
allotment can be estimated by subtracting the national set-asides from
the total funds available for allotment and then applying the
appropriate percentage shown below. For succeeding years, EPA will
annually notify each State of their allotment from a specific fiscal
year's appropriation after the final budget has been passed.
Table 2--DWSRF State Percentages and Dollar Allotments Based on the
President's Budget Request for FY 2010 and the 2007 Needs Assessment
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FY 2010 2010 allotment
State allotment ($) (%)
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Alabama............................. 18,196,000 1.24
Alaska.............................. 14,680,000 1.00
Arizona............................. 29,483,000 2.01
Arkansas............................ 22,215,000 1.51
California.......................... 137,318,000 9.35
Colorado............................ 26,038,000 1.77
Connecticut......................... 14,680,000 1.00
Delaware............................ 14,680,000 1.00
Florida............................. 47,932,000 3.27
Georgia............................. 34,688,000 2.36
Hawaii.............................. 14,680,000 1.00
Idaho............................... 14,680,000 1.00
Illinois............................ 55,411,000 3.77
Indiana............................. 24,485,000 1.67
Iowa................................ 25,060,000 1.71
Kansas.............................. 17,960,000 1.22
Kentucky............................ 21,191,000 1.44
Louisiana........................... 27,742,000 1.89
Maine............................... 14,680,000 1.00
Maryland............................ 22,777,000 1.55
Massachusetts....................... 27,367,000 1.86
Michigan............................ 44,591,000 3.04
Minnesota........................... 24,635,000 1.68
Mississippi......................... 15,278,000 1.04
Missouri............................ 28,375,000 1.93
Montana............................. 14,680,000 1.00
Nebraska............................ 14,680,000 1.00
Nevada.............................. 14,680,000 1.00
New Hampshire....................... 14,680,000 1.00
New Jersey.......................... 31,361,000 2.14
New Mexico.......................... 14,680,000 1.00
New York............................ 96,724,000 6.59
North Carolina...................... 38,497,000 2.62
North Dakota........................ 14,680,000 1.00
Ohio................................ 47,168,000 3.21
Oklahoma............................ 18,239,000 1.24
Oregon.............................. 14,680,000 1.00
Pennsylvania........................ 43,011,000 2.93
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Puerto Rico......................... 14,680,000 1.00
Rhode Island........................ 14,680,000 1.00
South Carolina...................... 14,680,000 1.00
South Dakota........................ 14,680,000 1.00
Tennessee........................... 16,315,000 1.11
Texas............................... 93,293,000 6.36
Utah................................ 14,680,000 1.00
Vermont............................. 14,680,000 1.00
Virginia............................ 24,885,000 1.70
Washington.......................... 37,477,000 2.55
West Virginia....................... 14,680,000 1.00
Wisconsin........................... 25,308,000 1.72
Wyoming............................. 14,680,000 1.00
District of Columbia................ 14,680,000 1.00
U.S. Territories*................... 22,020,000 1.50
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Total Funds Available to the 1,468,000,000 ................
States, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, and U.S.
Territories....................
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American Indian & Alaska Native 30,000,000 ................
Water Systems......................
Monitoring for Unregulated 2,000,000 ................
Contaminants.......................
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Total SRF Appropriation......... 1,500,000,000 ................
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* Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands.
Dated: May 14, 2009.
Paul F. Simon,
Acting Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water.
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