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(iv) Storage projects, including installation or upgrade of eligible storage facilities, including finished water reservoirs, to prevent microbiological contaminants from entering a public water system. (v) Consolidation projects, including projects needed to consolidate water supplies where, for example, a supply has become contaminated or a system is unable to maintain compliance for technical, financial, or managerial reasons. (vi) Creation of new systems, including those that, upon completion, will create a community water system to address existing public health problems with serious risks caused by unsafe drinking water provided by individual wells or surface water sources. Eligible projects are also those that create a new regional community water system by consolidating existing systems that have technical, financial, or managerial difficulties. Projects to address existing public health problems associated with individual wells or surface water sources must be limited in scope to the specific geographic area affected by contamination. Projects that create new regional community water systems by consolidating existing systems must be limited in scope to the service area of the systems being consolidated. Ineligible projects under the DWSRF. Federally -owned public water systems and for - profit noncommunity water systems are not eligible to receive DWSRF funds and therefore SLFRF funds.310 The acquisition of water rights, laboratory fees for routine compliance monitoring, and operation and maintenance expenses are not costs associated with investments in infrastructure and thus would not be eligible under the final rule. 311 Projects needed primarily to serve future population growth are also ineligible under the DWSRF; the treatment of such 31° See 40 CFR 35.3520(d)(1). 311 See id at § 35.3520(e)(2)-(4). 275