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Source Water Protection: Plan Implementation Grant Application - EH: Minnesota Depar... Page 1 of 8 <br />(http://www.health.state.mn.us/index.html) <br />II DEPARTMENT <br />OF HEALTH <br />Plan Implementation Grant <br />Source Water Protection <br />Plan Implementation Grant: Frequently Asked Questions <br />(http://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/water/swp/implementationfaq.html) <br />Notification of Grant Availability <br />Applications for this grant program are accepted between <br />Tuesday, September 1, 2020 8:00 a.m. and Wednesday, September 30, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. <br />The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) announces the availability of funding to support the <br />implementation of source water protection plans. Source water protection plans are either 1) wellhead <br />protection plans that have been approved by the MDH under requirements of Minnesota Rules Parts 4720. <br />5100 to 4720.5590, or 2) MDH approved wellhead protecfion action plans, or3) surface water intake <br />protection plans that have been endorsed by the MDH. The funding for source water protection (SWP) <br />plan implementation grants is provided under Minnesota Session Laws 2019 Chapter 2, Section 8 (b). <br />(https://www.revisor.mn.qov/laws/2019/0/Session+Law/Chapter/2/) <br />Introduction <br />The Clean Water Land and Legacy Amendment to the Minnesota constitution provides funding to the MDH <br />to establish a source water protecfion (SWP) implementation grant program. This program will be <br />administered through the Drinking Water Protection Section. This notice applies to source water <br />protection plan implementation grants which focus on assisting Public Water Suppliers (PWSs) to <br />implement their SWP plans. Future grant availability notifications will include the SWP transient and <br />competitive grant categories. These are grants that will help all PWSs implement source water protection <br />measures even though they may not have a SWP plan in place. <br />The fundamental goal of SWP is to prevent contamination from entering sources of public drinking water <br />at levels that present a risk to people. Source water protecfion applies to all types of PWSs and is based on <br />requirements in the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and authorities granted to the MDH by the state <br />legislature. In Minnesota, SWP is divided into wellhead protection that focuses on 1) groundwater that is <br />used for PWS and 2) intake protection that focuses on surface water that is used for PWS. <br />https://www.health. state.mn.us/communities/environment/water/swp/implementation.html 8/18/2020 <br />