25 Pa. Code § 963.9a - Stormwater project evaluation criteria
The following are stormwater project evaluation criteria:
(1)
Public health
and safety.
(i) Elimination of
critical ongoing safety or health hazard.
(ii) Elimination of a chronic safety or
health hazard which frequently occurs.
(iii) Elimination of a potential safety or
health hazard associated with periodic flooding.
(2)
Environmental impact.
(i) The improvement or prevention of a
problem to the environment or to natural resources.
(ii) Whether the project is located in areas
of karst topography and susceptible to sinkhole development or has no natural
watercourse within the municipal boundaries encompassing the project.
(3)
Economic
development.
(i) Development,
activity and job creation retention resulting directly or indirectly from a
project.
(ii) Opportunity to use
other State programs, such as the Business Infrastructure Development, Site
Development and Community Facilities Programs, to fund the project.
(iii) Degree of local distress in the county
where the project is located.
(4)
Compliance.
(i) Improvement of compliance with existing
laws, rules and regulations if compliance will eliminate the necessity to issue
an order.
(ii) Compliance with law,
an order, decree, agreement or a deadline specified in regulation.
(5)
Adequacy and
efficiency.
(i) The extent that the
project proposes facility regionalization or system consolidation to improve
operation, maintenance or function of the stormwater facility.
(ii) The extent that the project involves
multiple-governmental participation.
(iii) The extent that the project has a
sponsoring municipal entity which has a population less than or equal to 12,000
residents as reported in the latest census.
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