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Commerce and DNRC brief panel on target-rate rules, regional water projects and a $10 million DNRC request
Summary
Agency staff explained how Commerce calculates community "target rates" used to determine grant eligibility and DNRC described regional water projects and a proposed $10 million allocation for regional systems in House Bill 11.
Helena — At a Subcommittee F hearing on House Bill 11, Montana Department of Commerce staff laid out how the agency calculates "target rates" — a financial benchmark used to evaluate a community’s ability to pay for water and wastewater projects — while officials from the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation described multi-jurisdiction regional water systems and requested state support.
Becky Anseth of the Department of Commerce told members the department relies on American Community Survey median-household-income data and recurring DNRC rate surveys to compute a community’s target rate. The target rate determines whether a town is eligible for specific tiers of grant support: 500,000, 625,000 or 750,000 grants presented in testimony. Anseth said the department typically uses a five-year ACS…
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