American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF)
Wastewater Infrastructure
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides $29.1 million for investment in wastewater infrastructure and non-point source abatement projects. This money will be administered through the CWSRF.
In December and January the Department notified municipal licensed dischargers and consulting engineers of the potential for economic stimulus funding and requested that facilities submit shovel ready projects that could be considered for possible funding. The Department received more than 200 proposed projects from over 90 entities totaling over $317 million dollars. Since requests for project funding far exceeded available ARRA funding the Department prioritized proposed projects to determine how the money will be distributed.
The Department developed proposed project ranking criteria, reviewed information submitted on the proposed projects, and developed a list of projects the Department proposed to fund under ARRA. In cooperation with the Maine Bond Bank, the Department is proposing to distribute this money to selected projects in funding packages consisting of a mixture of principal forgiveness loans and zero percent interest loans.
On March 13, 2009, the proposed ranking criteria and list of projects proposed for funding were integrated into a draft Intended Use Plan (IUP) as required by ARRA and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) SRF requirements and posted for public comment until March 23.
The Department received comments from 27 entities. 15 were supportive of the proposal, 4 were partially supportive, 3 were not supportive and 5 offered no opinion. After considering all of the comments, the Department is not proposing any significant changes. A full response to comments document is available at the link below.
The final IUP was submitted to EPA on April 6, 2009. This action completes the Department’s grant application to EPA for SRF and ARRA funds. The Department expects that ARRA funds will be released to Maine very soon.
Department staff are working with entities receiving ARRA funds to guide them through the SRF ARRA application process.
Please contact any of the following staff with any comments or questions regarding ARRA funding for wastewater projects.
Brian Kavanah 287-7700 brian.w.kavanah@maine.gov
Steve McLaughlin 287-7768 steve.a.mclaughlin@maine.gov
Brandy Piers 287-6093 brandy.m.piers@maine.gov
Final SRF and ARRA Documents
- September 2009 Revised Intended Use Plan (IUP) for Federal Fiscal Year 2009 [IUP PDF] [if you would like a Word/Excel version, please contact us.]
- Certification pursuant to Section 1607 of ARRA, March 6, 2009 [1607 certification PDF]
- Certification pursuant to Section 1511 of ARRA, July 21, 2009 [1511 certification PDF]
- List of projects the DEP proposes to fund under ARRA. List includes proposed funding amounts. [proposed projects funded PDF] [if you would like an excel spreadsheet, please contact us.]
- Summary table that indicates changes made to March 11, 2009 draft list of projects DEP proposed to fund under ARRA. [changes PDF] [changes Word]
- Response to comments document. [response PDF] [response Word]
- Alphabetical list of all projects received by the Department for consideration of funding under ARRA. List includes details of individual project ranking scores. [all projects PDF] [if you would like an Excel spreadsheet, please contact us.]
- DEP ARRA project ranking criteria and methodology. [ranking system PDF] [ranking system Word]
- Map indicating location of proposed wastewater projects. (Click map image above)
Other documents may be found in the briefing material to the Natural Resources Committee.
