Grant Details

Water/Sewer Infrastructure

Overview

Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds may be used to invest in necessary improvements to
water and sewer infrastructures, including projects that address the impacts of climate change. Applicants
may use this funding to invest in an array of drinking water infrastructure projects, such as building or
upgrading facilities and transmission, distribution, and storage systems, including the replacement of lead
service lines.

Applicants may also use this funding to invest in wastewater infrastructure projects, including constructing
publicly owned treatment infrastructure, managing and treating stormwater or subsurface drainage
water, facilitating water reuse, and securing publicly owned treatment works.

Treasury’s Interim Final Rule encourages recipients to ensure that water and sewer projects use strong
labor standards, including project labor agreements and community benefits agreements that offer wages
at or above the prevailing rate and include local hire provisions.

Eligibility

Government Organizations:

• State Agencies
• County governments
• City or township governments
• Special district governments

Georgia Professional Associations and Organizations:

• Industry Trade Associations
• Business Organizations
• Trade/Professional/ Non-Profit Organizations

Reporting Requirements Include (but are not limited to):

The following information will be required in Project and Expenditure Reports:

Project Descriptions

Project descriptions must describe the project in sufficient detail to provide understanding of the major
activities that will occur and will be required to be between 50 and 250 words. Projects should be defined
to include only closely related activities directed toward a common purpose.

Expenditures

Recipients will be asked to report:

• Current period obligation
• Cumulative obligation
• Current period expenditure
• Cumulative expenditure

Project Status

Once a project is entered the recipient will be asked to report on project status each reporting period, in
four categories:

• Not Started
• Completed less than 50 percent
• Completed 50 percent or more
• Completed

Required Programmatic Data for Infrastructure Projects (EC 5):

For all projects listed under the Water, Sewer, and Broadband Expenditure Categories (see Appendix 1),
more detailed project-level information is required. Each project will be required to report expenditure
data as described above, but will also report the following information:

All infrastructure projects (EC 5):

• Projected/actual construction start date (month/year)
• Projected/actual initiation of operations date (month/year)
• Location (for broadband, geospatial location data)
• For projects over $10 million:

   a.  A recipient may provide a certification that, for the relevant project, all laborers and
   mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors in the performance of such project
   are paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing, as determined by the U.S. Secretary of
   Labor in accordance with subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States Code
   (commonly known as the “Davis-Bacon Act”), for the corresponding classes of laborers and
   mechanics employed on projects of a character similar to the contract work in the civil
   subdivision of the State (or the District of Columbia) in which the work is to be performed, or
   by the appropriate State entity pursuant to a corollary State prevailing-wage-in-construction
   law (commonly known s “baby DavisBacon Acts”). If such certification is not provided, a
   recipient must provide a project employment and local impact report detailing:
       • The number of employees of contractors and sub-contractors working on the project;
       • The number of employees on the project hired directly and hired through a third party;
       • The wages and benefits of workers on the project by classification; and
       • Whether those wages are at rates less than those prevailing.
       • Recipients must maintain sufficient records to substantiate this information upon request.

   b.  A recipient may provide a certification that a project includes a project labor agreement,
   meaning a pre-hire collective bargaining agreement consistent with section 8(f) of the
   National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158(f)). If the recipient does not provide such
   certification, the recipient must provide a project workforce continuity plan, detailing:
       • How the recipient will ensure the project has ready access to a sufficient supply of
         appropriately skilled and unskilled labor to ensure high-quality construction throughout
         the life of the project;
       • How the recipient will minimize risks of labor disputes and disruptions that would
         jeopardize timeliness and cost-effectiveness of the project; and
       • How the recipient will provide a safe and healthy workplace that avoids delays and costs
         associated with workplace illnesses, injuries, and fatalities;
       • Whether workers on the project will receive wages and benefits that will secure an
         appropriately skilled workforce in the context of the local or regional labor market; and
       • Whether the project has completed a project labor agreement.

   c.  Whether the project prioritizes local hires.

   d.  Whether the project has a Community Benefit Agreement, with a description of any such agreement.

Water and sewer projects [Expenditure Category 5]:

• National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit Number (if applicable; for
  projects aligned with the Clean Water State Revolving Fund)
• Public Water System (PWS) ID number (if applicable; for projects aligned with the Drinking
  Water State- Revolving Fund)

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