Resources, Publications and Legislative Reports

Dam Safety

• Dam Ownership - Responsibility and Liability
• Responsibilties of Dam Ownership - Internal Erosion of Earth Dams
• Dam Order Application Instructions
• Dam Ownership - Procuring the Services of a Professional Engineer
• Dam Inspections and Hazard Classification
• Beaver Dams: Best Management Practices for Resolving Human-Beaver Conflicts in Vermont

Water Infrastructure Financing Programs

• Step 1 Guidance
• Step 2 Guidance
• Step 3 Guidance
• Median Household Income or MHI amounts: These are the Median Household Income or MHI amounts that will be used for all  construction loans issued off the DWSRF Project Priority List beginning with FY16, all new water planning loans and all FY15 projects whose Step III funding application was received after July 1, 2016.

Spreadsheet Templates

• Project Cost Summary (PCS) 

Fact Sheets

• CWSRF Fact Sheet
• DWSRF Planning Loan Fact Sheet
• DWSRF Construction Loan Fact Sheet
• On-Site Loan Fact Sheet
• Water Infrastructure Sponsorship Program (WISPr) Fact Sheet

Checklists

DW and CW Project Leads use the following checklists to determine which documents or approvals are necessary to move the loan from development to internal approval to external approval. Some of the documents listed in the checklists are internal documents, so if there are questions, please contact the Project Leads directly.

DW Step 1: Loan Approval Checklist
DW Step 2: Loan Approval Checklist
DW Step 3: Loan Approval Checklist
DW Amendment: Loan Approval Checklist

CW Step 1: Loan Approval Checklist
CW Step 2: Loan Approval Checklist
CW Step 3: Loan Approval Checklist
CW Amendment: Loan Approval Checklist

General Information

• Getting Your Project To Flow Smoothly by RCAP Solutions
• Engineering Fee Curve

Planning

• Preliminary Engineering Report Format and Directions (USDA Bulletin 1780-2)(pdf)
  • New Link to OMB Circular A94 - for finding the federal discount rate
• PER Format (MS-Word)
• Sample Fiscal Sustainability Plan - with Criticality Assessment (MS Excel)
• LC TMDL Cost Estimate Report

Environmental Review

• State Environmental Review Procedure (CWSRF)
• State Environmental Review Procedure (DWSRF)

Final Design

• None

Construction

• Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Procurement Guidance
• EPA Davis-Bacon Handbook 2017 (DRAFT)
• American Iron and Steel Guidance - EPA Memo
• Project Signage Guidance

DWSRF Program Guidance Documents- these documents now live here.