OAR 340-054-0026
Clean Water State Revolving Fund Loans: CWSRF Project Ranking Criteria for Non-planning Loans
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Category 1. Water quality standards and public health considerations.(a)
Does the project improve water quality by addressing water quality parameters including, but not limited to: temperature, dissolved oxygen, contaminated sediments, toxic substances, bacteria or nutrients?(b)
Does the project ensure that a facility currently in compliance, but at risk of noncompliance, remains in compliance?(c)
Does the project address noncompliance with water quality standards, public health issues or effluent limits related to surface waters, biosolids, water reuse or groundwater?(d)
If the project is not implemented, is a water quality standard likely to be exceeded or an existing exceedance likely to worsen?(2)
Category 2. Watershed and health benefits.(a)
Does the project improve or sustain aquatic habitat supporting native species or state or federally threatened or endangered species?(b)
Does the project address a water quality or public health issue within a federally designated wild and scenic river or sole source aquifer, state designated scenic waterway, the Lower Columbia River or Tillamook Bay estuary, a river designated under OAR 340-041-0350 (The Three Basin Rule: Clackamas, McKenzie (above RM 15) & the North Santiam), or a significant wetland and riparian area identified and listed by a local government?(c)
Does the project support implementation of a total maximum daily load (TMDL) allocation, a department water quality status and action plan or designated groundwater management area declared under ORS 468B.180 (Declaration of ground water management area)?(d)
Does the project provide performance-based water quality improvements supported by monitoring and reasonable assurance that the project will continue to function over time?(e)
Does the project integrate or expand sustainability or using natural infrastructure, or use approaches including, but not limited to, water quality trading, that are not specified in subsections (f) through (i) of this section of the rule?(f)
Does the project incorporate or expand green infrastructure including, but not limited to, practices that manage wet weather and that maintain and restore natural hydrology by infiltrating, evapotranspiring, harvesting or using stormwater on a local or regional scale?(g)
Does the project incorporate or expand water efficiency including, but not limited to, using improved technologies and practices to deliver equal or better services with less water, such as conservation, reuse efforts or water loss reduction and prevention?(h)
Does the project incorporate or expand energy efficiency including, but not limited to, using improved technologies and practices to reduce energy consumption of water quality projects, use energy in a more efficient way or to produce or utilize renewable energy?(i)
Does the project incorporate or expand environmentally innovative projects including, but not limited to, demonstrating new or innovative approaches to deliver services or manage water resources in a more sustainable way?(3)
Category 3. Other considerations.(a)
Does the project include a long-term planning effort that addresses financial, managerial or technical capability, or asset planning that ensures the project will be maintained?(b)
Does the project include a significant on-going educational or outreach component?(c)
Does the project incorporate other resources including, but not limited to, in-kind support, other funding sources or a partnership with a governmental, tribal or non-governmental organization?(d)
Does the project address a small community’s water quality improvement or restoration need?(e)
Does the project include a sponsorship option?
Source:
Rule 340-054-0026 — Clean Water State Revolving Fund Loans: CWSRF Project Ranking Criteria for Non-planning Loans, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=340-054-0026.