Clean Water Fund Program (CWFP)
The Clean Water Fund Program (CWFP) is one of the subsidized loan programs included in the Environmental Improvement Fund (EIF). The CWFP provides loans to municipalities for wastewater treatment and urban storm water projects.
Most CWFP projects receive a subsidized interest rate of either 55%, 65%, or 70% of the EIF market interest rate. CWFP wastewater projects that meet certain criteria may be eligible to receive Hardship Financial Assistance, which may be in the form of a lower interest rate loan or include a grant.
Municipalities constructing wastewater projects with a total project cost of less than $1,000,000 may be interested in the Small Loan portion of the CWFP.
Below is a reference guide that serves as a tool for our customers intending to apply for CWFP financial assistance. The reference guide provides information, listed alphabetically by topic, on the steps and regulations to be followed from the early stages of the loan process through the closeout stage.
If you have questions, please contact your CWFP project manager, or contact Bob Ramharter.
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accounting(see financial management)
acronyms and abbreviations
administrative codes (see statutes and codes)
advantages of financing your project with the EIF
A/E agreements (see engineering contracts)
amendments
application contents - clean water fund program
authorized representative resolution
bids and construction contracts Top of page
bond regulations (see IRS Private Activity Bond Regulations)
bond swap
change orders
closeouts
codes and statutes (see statutes and codes)
comfort resolution (see reimbursement resolution)
construction management
contracts (see engineering contracts)
cost eligibility (see eligibility index)
credit review and project affordability
deadlines
debt types
declaration of intent to reimburse (see reimbursement resolution)
definitions
disbursements (see request for disbursement)
easements (see land and easements) Top of page
eligibility index
engineering contracts
equipment replacement fund
FAA amendments (see amendments)
FAA (financial assistance agreement)
financial assistance agreement (FAA) and loan closing process
financial management
financing options
force account
forms and publications
hardship assistance
hardship assistance calculation
hardship calculation worksheets
hardship assistance criteria
hardship assistance deadlines
hardship assistance funding list
median household income
ineligible costs (see eligibility index)
interest rates
interim financing
intermunicipal agreements
IRS private activity bond regulations
ITA (notice of intent to apply)
land and easements Top of page
loan closing process
loan repayment
MBE/WBE/SBRA
Agency Lists
Definitions
EPA's Fair Share Policy
Rural-Urban Continuum Code
Solicitation Guidance
median household income
minority business (see MBE/WBE/SBRA)
municipal statutes
operation and maintenance manual - clean water fund program
ordinances (see user charge systems and sewer use ordinances)
payment requests (see request for disbursement)
parallel cost percentage
PERF
plan of operation
priority evaluation and ranking form
private activity
project eligibility
project managers
reimbursement resolution Top of page
repayment
replacement fund (see equipment replacement fund)
request for disbursement
sewer use ordinances
small loans
small businesses in rural areas (see MBE/WBE/SBRA)
staff
statutes and codes
timeline for a typical project
two-thirds rule (see unsewered projects)
unsewered projects
project financing
user charge systems and sewer use ordinances
Wisconsin statutes (see statutes and codes)
women owned business (see MBE/WBE/SBRA)
EIF Reference Guide Disclaimer
| This information is intended solely as guidance, and does not contain any mandatory requirements except where requirements are found in statute or administrative rule. This guidance does not establish or affect legal rights or obligations, and is not finally determinative of any of the issues addressed. This guidance cannot be relied upon and does not create any rights enforceable by any party in litigation with the State of Wisconsin or the Department of Natural Resources. Any regulatory decisions made by the Department of Natural Resources in any matter addressed by this guidance will be made by applying the governing statutes and administrative rules to the relevant facts. |
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