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Office of Water
Fiscal Year 2011

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APPENDIX D: Explanation of Changes from FY 2010 to FY 2011

Office of Water - National Water Program Guidance FY 2011

Change from FY 2010 Guidance Document

Reason for Change

Affected Pages and Sections







Priorities

Major changes to reflect new National Water
Program priorities

1.	Sustainable Communities - Making
Communities More Sustainable

•	Making America's Water Systems
Sustainable and Secure

•	Safeguarding Public Health

•	Restoring and Protecting Urban
Waters

2.	Healthy Watersheds - Restoring and
Protecting America's Watersheds

•	Focusing Efforts in Key Geographic
Areas

•	Strengthening Protections for Our
Waters

•	Improving Watershed-Based
Approaches

Update to reflect new Administrator and
National Water Program priorities

Executive Summary, pages i-
ii.

Introduction, pages 2-4.

Strategies

Integrating the Public Water System
Supervision (PWSS) and Underground
Injection Control (UIC) grants within the

National Water Program Guidance.

This is a continuation of a pilot effort to
gain efficiency in the issuance of the grant
guidance within the National Water
Program Guidance (NWPG).

Introduction, page 2.
Section II, 1(B)

Adding a new section for Children's
Environmental Health

A new section is added to emphasize the
consideration of children's environmental
health in the National Water Program.

Section VII, page 57

Adding a new section for the Urban Waters
Initiative

A new section is added to highlight efforts
to protect and restore urban waters.

Section VIII, page 58

Adding a new section for Climate Change

A new section is added to highlight the

Section IX, page 59

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Strategies



National Water Program's response to
climate change.



Adding a new section for the San Francisco
Bay Delta Estuary

A new section is added to discuss strategies
for the San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary, a
current Large Aquatic Ecosystem.

Section IV, 10, pages 47-48

Annual
Commitment
Measures

Measure modified: Measure SP-5.

Modified to an indicator in the NWPG
because the changing baseline distorted
OW's reported performance in increasing
access to safe drinking water. This measure
will be phased out of the next Strategic Plan
and replaced by the new tribal measure
below (SDW-18).

Section II, Appendix A &
Appendix F

Newly created measure: Measure SDW-18,

Number of American Indian and Alaska
Native homes provided access to safe
drinking water in coordination with other
federal agencies.

Created for OW to report progress on the
number of tribal homes that are provided
safe drinking water as a result of combined
federal investments in Indian country. This
measure will supplement SP-5 in the NWPG
and replace SP-5 in the next Strategic Plan.

Section II, Appendix A &
Appendix F

Measures deleted: Measures SDW-9, SDW-
10a & SDW-lOb.

Deleted because reporting data from
different sources could not be easily
integrated.

Section II

Newly created measures: Measures SDW-

11, Percent of DWSRFprojects awarded to
small PWS serving <500, 501-3,300, and
3,301-10,000 consumers; SDW-12, Percent
of DWSRF dollars awarded to small PWS
serving <500, 501-3,300, 3,301-10,000
consumers; SDW-13, Percent of DWSRF
loans that include assistance to
disadvantaged communities; SDW-14,
Number and percent of PWS, including new
PWS, serving fewer than 500 persons. (New
PWS are those first reported to EPA in last
calendar year); SDW-15, Number and
percent of small PWS (<500, 501-3,300,

Created to provide additional focus on
tracking small systems. These indicators
correspond to the three major components
of the small system strategy: existing and
new small water system inventory; state
DWSRF projects targeting small systems;
and, small system noncompliance, and
capacity to quickly return to compliance
with health-based standards. Also included
is a separate indicator for schools and
daycare centers, a critical subset of small
systems, meeting health-based standards.

Section II, page 13.
Appendix A & F

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Annual
Commitment
Measures

3,301-10,000) with repeat health based
Nitrate/Nitrite, Stage 1 D/DBP, SWTR and
TCR violations; SDW-16, Average time for
smallPWS (<500, 501-3,300, 3,301-10,000)
to return to compliance with acute
Nitrate/Nitrite, Stage 1 D/DBP, SWTR and
TCR health-based violations (based on state-
reported RTC determination date); SDW-17,
Number and percent of schools and childcare
centers that meet all health-based drinking
water standards.





Measure reporting modified: Measure SP-6

Reporting deferred for FY 2011 because the
data are published only every 3 to 4 years.

Section II, Appendix A &
Appendix F

Measure deleted: Measure SP-8.

Deleted because data does not reflect the
performance of Clean Water Act programs.

Section II

Measure modified: Measure SP-15.

Modified to an indicator in the NWPG
because the changing baseline distorted
OW's reported performance in increasing
access to basic sanitation on tribal lands.
This measure will be phased out of the next
Strategic Plan and replaced by the new
tribal measure (WQ-24).

Section III, Appendix A &
Appendix F

Newly created measure: Measure WQ-24,

Number of American Indian and Alaska
Native homes provided access to basic
sanitation in coordination with other federal
agencies.

Created for OW to report progress on the
number of homes that are provided basic
sanitation as a result of combined federal
investments in Indian country. This measure
will supplement SP-15 in the NWPG and
replace SP-15 in the next Strategic Plan.

Section III, Appendix A &
Appendix F

Newly created measures - replace former
measures (WQ-la & WQ-lb): Measures
WQ-la, Number of numeric water quality
standards for total nitrogen andfor total
phosphorus adopted by States and Territories
and approved by EPA, or promulgated by
EPA, for all waters within the State or

Measure created in response to OIG report
on adoption of numeric nutrient water
quality standards.

Section III, page 18.
Appendix A & Appendix F

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Annual
Commitment
Measures

Territory for each of the following waterbody
types: lakes/reservoirs, rivers/streams, and
estuaries (cumulative, out of a universe of
280); WQ-lb: Number of numeric water
quality standards for total nitrogen and total
phosphorus at least proposed by States and
Territories, or by EPA proposed rulemaking,
for all waters within the State or Territory for
each of the following waterbody types:
lakes/reservoirs, rivers/streams, and estuaries
(cumulative, out of a universe of280).





Newly created measure: Measure WQ-lc,

Number of States and Territories supplying a
full set of performance milestone information
to EPA concerning development, proposal,
and adoption of numeric water quality
standards for total nitrogen and total
phosphorus for each waterbody type within
the State or Territory (annual). (The universe
for this measure is 56)

Measure created to track incremental state
progress in adopting numeric nutrient
standards.

WQ-lc is proposed as a new state grant
measure.

Section III, page 18.
Appendix A & Appendix F

Measure deleted: Measure WQ-4b.

Deleted because it no longer provides useful
management information as OW has
reported a 100% performance score for four
years.

Section III

Newly created measures: Measures WQ-
22a, Number of Regions that have completed
the development of a Healthy Watersheds
Initiative (HWI) Strategy and have reached
an agreement with at least one state to
implement its portion of the Region's HWI
Strategy; WQ-22b, Number of states that
have completed at least 2 of the major
components of a Healthy Watershed Initiative
assessment.

Created to assess OW's performance with
regard to the Healthy Watershed Initiative.

Section III, pages 24.
Appendix A & Appendix F

Newly created ANY measure: Measure WQ-

Measure added to align with performance

Section III, Appendix A &

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Annual
Commitment
Measures

23, Percent of serviceable rural Alaska
homes with access to drinking water supply
and wastewater disposal.

reporting in the budget.

Appendix F

Measure deleted: Measure CO-1.

Measure is deleted due lack of data
availability.

Section III

Measure modified: Measure SP-29.

Changed reporting requirements to be
consistent with the recent Great Lakes
Restoration Initiative (GLRI) Action Plan.

Section IV, Appendix A &
Appendix F

Measure deleted: Measure SP-30.

Measures deleted to in lieu of new GLRI
measures.

Section IV

Measure modified: Measure SP-31.

Modified to become a long term measure.
Deleted from budget, but will be tracked in
GLRI.

Section IV, Appendix A &
Appendix F

Newly created measures: (six Great Lakes
measures) Measures GL-6, Number of
nonnative species newly detected in the Great
Lakes ecosystem; GL-7, Number of multi-
agency rapid response plans established,
mock exercises to practice responses carried
out under those plans, and/or actual response
actions (cumulative); GL-8, Percentage of
beaches meeting bacteria standards 95% or
more of beach days; GL-9, Acres managed
for populations of invasive species controlled
to a target level (cumulative); GL-10,
Percent ofpopulations of native aquatic non-
threatened and endangered species self-
sustaining in the wild (cumulative); GL-11,
Number of acres of wetlands and wetland-
associated uplands protected, restored and
enhanced (cumulative); GL-12, Number of
acres of coastal, upland, and island habitats
protected, restored and enhanced
(cumulative); GL-13, Number of species
delisted due to recovery; GL-14, Number of

Measures created in order to align with
budget measures from the GLRI.

Section IV, Appendix A &
Appendix F

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Annual
Commitment

Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes where
all management actions necessary for
delisting have been implemented
(cumulative).





Measures

Measures deleted: Measures GL-1, GL-2 &
GL-3.

Measures deleted to in lieu of new GLRI
measures.

Section IV



Measures deleted: Measures GL-4a & GL-
4b

Measures no longer being used for the
reporting process for which it was created.

Section IV



Measures deleted: Measures GM-3a & GM-
3b

Measures no longer being used for the
reporting process for which it was created.

Section IV



Measures modified: Measures SP-45 & SP-
46.

Measures modified from a target to an
indicator to align with budget performance
reporting.

Section IV, Appendix A &
Appendix F



Measures modified: Measures SP-47a & SP-
47b.

Modified to reflect OW's performance in
improving wastewater treatment and
stormwater.

Section IV, Appendix A &
Appendix F



Newly created measure: Measure SF-1,

Increase percentage of sewage treatment
facilities and onsite sewage treatment and
disposal systems receiving advanced
wastewater treatment or best available
technology as recorded by EDU. in Florida
Keys two percent (1500 EDUs) annually.

Measure created to track performance in
reducing effluent from sewage systems.

Section IV, Appendix A &
Appendix F

Tracking
Process

Potential Future Measures for Improving
Water Quality on a Watershed Basis under
subobjective 2.2.1 Restore and Improve
Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

These measures are being considered for
inclusion in the FY 2013-2018 EPA
Strategic Plan and/or the FY 2012 National
Water Program Guidance.

New measures are needed to give credit for
water quality improvement short of full
WQS attainment. The major gap is tracking
progress after TMDLs or other planning is
complete, but before standards are fully
met.

Section III, pages 26.

Contacts

No change

Not applicable



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