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The conferees are in agreement that the agency should work with the grant
recipients on appropriate cost-share arrangements. It is the conferees' expectation
that the agency will apply the 45% local cost share requirement under Title II of
the Clean Water Act in most cases.
In the FY1996 appropriations, both the act and accompanying reports were silent
on federal/local cost share and applicability of Title II requirements. Because of that,
EPA officials planned to require only a 5% local match for most of the special
purpose grants in that bill, which is the standard matching requirement for other EPA
non-infrastructure grants. Under the agency's rules, the local match could include in-
kind services, as well as funding toward the project.
In the FY1997 appropriations, Congress included report language as it had in
FY1995 concerning federal and local cost share requirements.4
The conferees are in agreement that the Agency should work with the grant
recipients on appropriate cost-share agreements and to that end the conferees direct
the Agency to develop a standard cost-share consistent with fiscal year 1995.
The FY1998 and FY1999 appropriations included neither bill nor report language on
this point. However, language in the House and Senate Appropriations Committees'
reports on the FY1998 and FY1999 bills directed EPA to work with grant recipients
on appropriate cost-share arrangements.
For FY2000, Congress included explicit report language concerning the local
match.'
The conferees agree that the $331,650,000 provided to communities or
other entities for construction of water and wastewater treatment facilities
and for groundwater protection infrastructure shall be accompanied by a
cost-share requirement whereby 45 percent of a project's cost is to be the
responsibility of the community or entity consistent with long-standing
guidelines for the Agency. These guidelines also offer flexibility in the
application of the cost-share requirement for those few circumstances when
meeting the 45 percent requirement is not possible.
Similar report language concerning local cost share requirements accompanied the
conference reports on the FY2001 appropriations bill and the FY2002 bill.'
Grants for a Drinking Water SRF. One additional aspect of earmarking a
portion of the account's appropriation began in FY1994 when the Administration
4H.Rept. 104-812, accompanying H.R. 3666, 104th Congress, 1St session, p. 74
5H.Rept. 105-175, accompanying H.R. 2158, 105t Congress, 1t Session, p. 69; S.Rept. 105-
216, accompanying S. 2168, 105th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 82.
6H.Rept. 106-379, accompanying H.R. 2684, 106th Congress, 1st Session, p. 141.
7H.Rept. 106-988, accompanying H.R. 4635, 106th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 135.
8H.Rept. 107-272, accompanying H.R. 2620, 107th Congress, 1st Session, p. 137.
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