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              Federal  Guidance
              and Assistance
To assist the community in developing the financial
resources to plan, build and manage a self-sustaining
wastewater treatment facility, the EPA has prepared the
following materials.

Financial Capability Guidebook
Provides a detailed approach to analyzing the financial
capability of a community to build, operate, and maintain
a wastewater treatment facility.

Financial Capability Summary Foldout
Provides a smaller, simpler version of the approach used in
the Financial Capability Guidebook to assist communities
that do not need detailed guidance for conducting a finan-
cial capability analysis.

Utility Manager's Guide to Financial Planning
Provides local officials with an overview of the elements of
financial planning and the financial management process
necessary to support a wastewater treatment system and
keep it self-sustaining.

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State Agency Bole

* Establish water quality standards.
• Issue and enforce Wastewater
discharge permits.    ~ ....
« Establish a priority list that iden-
tifies local projects scheduled for
EPA funding.        •.-—_••
• Manage the day-to-day aspects
of the construction grants program.
• Provide technical and financial
wastewater management assistance
to comrtiunities.
• Review and approve local waste-
water treatment projects.
EPA Role

» Develop regulations to implement
the Clean Water Act.
• Establish national cleah water
policies and objectives.
• Establish national technology
based standards (e.g., secondary
treatment).
• Provide overview of progress
toward achieving national
objectives.
• Provide guidance and assistance
to State and local agencies.
• Oversee implementation of the
construction grants program.

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 Who is

 Responsible?

 The greatest responsibility for
 the goal of "clean water lies
 with the community. While
 Clean water for the nation
 mgst be achieved by mutual
 commitment of all levels of
 government — local, State
 and Federal — it is the com-
 munity that must make sure
 that wastewater treatment
 facilities are planned and con-
 structed properly.  It is also the
 community that makes the
 long-term commitment to
 operate and maintain the
 system throughout its useful
 life. To meet these responsibil-
 ities successfully, communities
 must provide adequate finan-
 cial resources and effective
 financial management.  This
 brochure describes the finan-
 cial steps that communities
 must take in order to build and
 operate a self-sustaining waste-
 water facility gnd identifies
 guidance materials available to
 help accomplish epch step.

 In the effort to clean up
 pollution caused by municipal
wastewater, communities,
 State agencie$, and the U.S.
 Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) have the  follow-
ing prescribed roles and
responsibilities.

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User charge and capital cost recovery systems must be
reviewed and updated to ensure revenues sufficient to
support the facility on a self-sustaining basis.

Preventive maintenance systems must be implemented and
adequately funded to prevent failure or the premature
deterioration of the _wasleyyater treatment^vatem	
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   generate revenues adequate to recover costs and       '
 • charge customers in proportion to their use of the facilities.

 The system for recovering capital costs is sometimes
 separate from the user charge system for recovering
 0,M&R costs. Capital costs may be recovered through a
 Less Costly Wastewater Treatment for
 Your Town
 Highlights the type of appropriate technology suitable for
 wastewater treatment in small communities and the com-
 parative costs for each.

 Small Wastewater Systems —
 Alternative Systems for Small Communities
 and Rural Areas
 Acquaints the layperson with some representative alter-
 native treatment systems that are appropriate for small
 communities and rural areas.

 Is Your Proposed Wastewater Project
 Too Costly?
 Contains information on the financing and management
 problems faced by small communities using centralized
 sewer systems. It offers guidance for identifying potential
. problems and suggests  possible corrective measures.

 Value Determination Report
 Describes North Carolina's highly successful review proce-
 dures for reducing project cost by eliminating items which
 are not needed for adequate performance.

 Financial and Management Capability Policy
 Explains the requirement to demonstrate financial capabil-
 ity in order to receive construction grants assistance.

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