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Water Quality Control Division Report
To The Board
Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority
December 7, 2012
I. Follow up Actions
II. Water Quality Control Commission Actions
III. Update on Project Activities
A. The Governor's 2012 -2013 budget identifies a request for $15,000,000 in capital
construction funds for a grant program for municipal wastewater systems that are required
to upgrade facilities to meet the requirements approved by the Colorado Water Quality
Control Commission in Regulation 85 — Nutrients Management Control. Regulation 85
becomes effective on July 1, 2013. This regulation requires that 45 wastewater treatment
plants install treatment to reduce the amount of phosphorus and nitrogen that is released
from their plants into surface water. The dates when treatment will be installed will vary
from facility to facility, and is dependent on when the facility's current permit expires, the
level of treatment already in place at the facility, the time needed to plan for and design the
new treatment systems, and the time needed to acquire the necessary financing. The
funds made available via this request will be used to help these facilities with the costs of
implementing the nutrients requirements in their permits. It is anticipated these grants
could be used for preliminary engineering work, facility and process design, construction, or
any other onetime costs incurred by the facilities to implement nutrient reductions identified
in Regulation 85. It is anticipated, if approved by the Capital Development Committee and
the Joint Budget Committee that the grants could be made available using the current
Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund prioritization criteria.
B. In support of department's efficiency efforts the Office of State Planning and Budget
(OSPB) has agreed to sponsor a LEAN Event for the State Revolving Loan Fund (SRF).
OSPB has contracted with North Highland Consulting for the state's LEAN efforts. The
LEAN process has been successfully used by numerous organizations, both private and
not - for - profit; to improve the way those organizations do their work. LEAN provides a set of
tools that can be to identify and eliminate waste in work processes.
The SRF Team Leads include: Donna Davis (Project Lead), CDPHE; Keith McLaughlin,
CWR &PDA; Scott Olene, DOLA/DLG. Our proposed Executive Sponsors are Steve
Gunderson, CDPHE; Mike Brod, CWR &PDA; Tony Hernandez, DOLA/DLG.
The three agencies have identified the week of December 10 -14 as a good period for the
week -long rapid improvement exercise. Based on the Lean Event Planning Tool, the draft
scoping document should be finished about 5 -6 weeks prior to the week -long exercise.
We are excited to work on this multi- agency effort that will ultimately improve our services
to the SRF borrowers.
The Clean Water Needs Survey project currently has more than $4 billion in federally
accepted projects. The data entry has been completed and all projects are currently being
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