Stakeholder Meeting Comments from the 3/15/00 meeting:

How the State Will Use the Authority And Resources Of the Safe Drinking Water Act

• Fund a Position to work with TNC's on Permitting from Set Asides

• Fund Sampling for School Systems

• Promote and possibly subsidize initial consolidation of operation of School Systems by district or larger geographical area.

• Promote contract or regional consolidation of operation of small systems.

• Fund owner/operator travel to meetings and training courses and provide food.

• Develop a mentoring program on a geographical regional basis and promote geographical regional owner/operator organizations and training.

• Obtain legislative authority allowing Secretary to make a determination that a system is not viable and direct the water system to take appropriate feasible actions to allow decertification i.e. drill wells, connect to another system etc.

• Strengthen link between owner/operator and the Water Supply Division

• Do a newsletter and possibly target groups such as TNCs, NTNCs and community systems to make more relevant

• Develop simple SPPs, O&M manuals, and Long range plan models. 

• Pay for and do sampling for TNC's

• Do the initial rounds of new sampling requirements.

• Promote alternative technologies and variances when possible.

• More funding support for non-profit organizations.

Baseline information

• More flexibility to enter correct information in the inventory would provide better data.

• Show what was prevented from going out of compliance as well as what went out of compliance.

• Express as a positive rather than a negative i.e. number of systems in compliance.

• Use number of major deficiencies in Temporary Operating Permits as an indicator.

Encourage/Impair

• Lack of money, people, and resources.

• Part-time volunteer employees - lack of communication and professional involvement with peers of owners/operators.

• Owner & customer apathy

• Lack of understanding by Owners/operators of Public Health Reasons for rules and past local situations that demonstrate the public health reasons for the rules and regulations.

• Lack of good communication from the Water Supply Division with owners/operators i.e. newsletters/public announcements.

• Coordination of Regional Office and WSD Staff on Water Supply Issues. 

• Owner/Operator Perception of costs to do SPP, O&M manual, long range plan etc.

Prioritize Systems

• Use Enforcement priorities to prioritize systems.

Identify Interested Systems