EPA: DWSRF capitaliza a 50 estados más Puerto Rico con over $21 billion federales

El 11 de mayo de 2023, esta mesa ancla en How the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Works de EPA. Congress appropriates funding for the DWSRF; EPA then awards capitalization grants to each state for their DWSRF based upon the results of the most recent Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment. The state provides a 20 percent match. Topic both.

Under the DWSRF, EPA provides grants to all 50 states plus Puerto Rico to capitalize state DWSRF loan programs. The states contribute an additional 20 percent to match the federal grants. The program also provides direct grant funding for the District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Puerto Rico queda en el club de 51 programas capitalizados con match, no en la frase de grant directo territorial.

Building on a federal investment of over $21.0 billion, the state DWSRFs have provided more than $41.1 billion to water systems through 2019. This assistance was provided through over 15,425 assistance agreements for improving drinking water treatment, fixing leaky or old pipes (water distribution), improving source of water supply, replacing or constructing finished water storage tanks, and other infrastructure projects needed to protect public health. English billion.

States have the option of taking a variety of set-asides. These set-asides help fund state programs and activities to ensure safe drinking water. In total, states may take approximately 31% of their capitalization grant in set-asides. After taking their set-asides, states place the balance of their capitalization grant, together with the state match, into a dedicated revolving loan fund. This revolving fund provides loans and other authorized assistance to water systems for eligible infrastructure projects.

As water systems repay their loans, the repayments and interest flow back into the dedicated revolving fund. These funds may be used to make additional loans. The 51 DWSRF programs function like infrastructure banks by providing low interest loans to eligible recipients for drinking water infrastructure projects. As money is paid back into the state's revolving loan fund, the state makes new loans to other recipients. Recycled repayments of loan principal make the fund revolving.

States are responsible for the operation of their DWSRF programs. Under the DWSRF, states may provide various types of assistance, including interest rates from zero percent to market rate, repayment periods of up to 30 years, purchasing a community's debt, refinancing previously issued debt, and additional subsidization (subsidy beyond a zero percent loan), such as negative interest rate loans. The terms of the loan may not exceed 30 years or the useful life of the project.

States rank the project applications they receive from water systems and produce a Project Priority List. States have flexibility to tailor their ranking process while meeting the SDWA requirement to give priority to projects that address the most serious risks to human health, are necessary to ensure compliance with the SDWA, and assist systems most in need according to state affordability criteria. States may customize loan terms to meet the needs of small and disadvantaged communities.

Allotted capitalization ≠ obligated loan ≠ disbursed construction cash ≠ theft. Quien confunda el stock histórico over $41.1 billion through 2019 con allotments FY2025 de Puerto Rico ($43.444 million DW en tablas hermanas) o con news releases de $62.283 million / $63.3 million / more than $67 million mezcla acumulado nacional y filas territoriales de años distintos. No conflar con CWSRF Learn About ($194 billion) ni con territory program-information ya archivado.

Para borinquenmade.blog: How the DWSRF Works fija el mecanismo —Needs Survey, 20 percent match, ~31% set-asides, 51 banks, Priority List, additional subsidization— con Puerto Rico nombrado en la capitalización. SSD only; no GitHub. Primaria FREE frente a dwsrf territory PR y FY2025 joint memo.

En síntesis: EPA explica el DWSRF como banca revolving con over $21.0 billion federales y more than $41.1 billion a water systems through 2019 vía over 15,425 agreements, capitalizando a 50 estados más Puerto Rico. Sin convertir el stock nacional en cash de la Isla, la nota deja el vehículo limpio.