FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 296
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES KENNEDY AND HEGEMAN (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 9, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 640.107, RSMo 2000, relating to technical assistance for public water systems, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 640.107, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 640.107, to read as follows:
640.107. 1. There is hereby established, as a subfund of the water and wastewater fund established in section 644.122, RSMo, the "Drinking Water Revolving Fund", which shall be maintained and accounted for separately, and which shall consist of moneys from all lawful public and private sources including legislative appropriations, federal capitalization grants, interest on investments and principal and interest payments with respect to loans made from the drinking water revolving fund. Money in the drinking water revolving fund may be used only for purposes as are authorized in the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended.
2. The commission shall, consistent with the requirements of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act for the drinking water revolving fund to become eligible for capitalization grants from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, establish criteria and procedures for the selection of projects and the making of loans or the grant of loan subsidies for disadvantaged communities.
3. After providing for review and public comment, and in accordance with the requirements for such plans set forth in the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, the commission shall annually prepare an intended use plan for the funds available in the drinking water revolving fund.
4. Consistent with the requirements of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, and only to the extent funds are available to be obligated for eligible projects of public water systems, in developing its annual intended use plan, the commission shall make available no less than thirty-five percent, but may make available greater than thirty-five percent, of the moneys credited to the drinking water revolving fund solely for project loans and loan subsidies for projects of systems serving fewer than ten thousand people in accordance with the following:
Systems Serving: Percentage:
0 - 3,300 people 20%
3,301 - 9,999 people 15%
provided that, in any fiscal year, loan subsidies may not exceed the maximum percentage as specified in the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. In any fiscal year in which there are insufficient applicants and projects in the population categories listed in this subsection to allocate the percentages of funds specified pursuant to this subsection, any balance of funds otherwise reserved for systems serving fewer than ten thousand people shall be available for obligation to eligible projects from any eligible applicant. Such uncommitted balances shall be redistributed in accordance with the intended use plan.
5. The department shall make available two percent of the moneys from the federal capitalization grants received pursuant
to this section for training and technical assistance to public water systems serving fewer than ten thousand people.
Training and technical assistance provided pursuant to this subsection shall be consistent with rules of the commission.
The department shall request proposals for any person with experience in providing training and technical
assistance to small public water systems to provide such training and technical assistance services by contract. The
commission shall establish criteria and procedures for such proposal requests and shall consider, approve and
award contracts.
Missouri
House of Representatives