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DEQ: water, sewer projects must meet engineering, capacity standards; SRF loan forgiveness tied to federal guidance (House Bill 11)
Summary
The Department of Environmental Quality told Appropriations Subcommittee F that drinking-water and wastewater projects in House Bill 11 must meet DEQ engineering and treatment standards adopted by rule; members pressed on capacity standards, asbestos concrete pipe replacements, reverse-osmosis waste streams and how the SRF loan-forgiveness rules
Lindsay Krivaruchka, division administrator for water quality at the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, told Appropriations Subcommittee F that the department reviews water and wastewater projects for both engineer design and treatment standards and enforces requirements adopted in DEQ circulars and rule.
"I'm the division administrator for water quality at the DEQ," Krivaruchka said, and she told the committee: "Those are standards that are in our circulars, which are adopted by rule and absolutely open to public process." She said DEQ examines not only pipe sizing and layout but also treatment time and capacity, and it evaluates whether…
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