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Compliance with Public Bidding Law To the extent applicable, applicants must provide certification evidencing compliance with public bidding law, pursuant to Iowa Code Chapter 26, prior to closing a construction loan. Compliance with Civil Rights Law All programs, projects, and activities undertaken in the SRF programs are subject to federal anti-discrimination laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and section 13 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments of 1972. These laws prohibit discrimination in any federally assisted program on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age. These laws apply by their own terms to the entire organization receiving federal financial assistance, not just to the project itself. Iowa is in the process of reviewing program activities to ensure compliance with federal civil rights laws. Utility Rate Recommendations Prior to closing a construction loan, applicants must demonstrate that appropriate action has been taken to implement the utility rate recommendations of their Municipal Advisor set forth in the 5-year pro-forma cash flow analysis. Municipal Advisor Borrowers will be asked to identify their Municipal Advisor for the project as part of the IUP application. State Match See Appendix F -State Match of the base CWSRF Program IUP. VI. Technical Assistance States have the flexibility to use up to 2% of their annual BIL General CWSRF Supplemental capitalization grant for the purpose of providing technical assistance to rural, small, and tribal publicly owned treatment works. The eligibilities for this funding are very broad. Iowa does not intend to duplicate the technical assistance efforts being provided by the U.S. EPA and other organizations receiving U.S. EPA Technical Assistance grants; so additional planning and coordination is needed before activities are identified for this funding. The Iowa SRF Program reserves the right to utilize 2% of the FY 2022 BIL General CWSRF Supplemental allocation at a later date. VII. Public Review and Comment Stakeholder engagement webinars were hosted on June 26, 2022 to present the preliminary implementation plans for BIL General CWSRF Supplemental funds. Comments were accepted through July 8, 2022. Questions and comments from stakeholders were taken into consideration and some changes were incorporated into this Annex as described above. A new dedicated web page was developed on the Iowa SRF website titled “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Funding Opportunities” 12 to inform stakeholders of the latest BIL updates in a timely manner. A new dedicated email “water- infrastructure@dnr.iowa.gov” was created for stakeholders to easily submit questions and comments pertaining to BIL. A public meeting to allow input into this Annex and PPL was held August 11, 2022, 10:00am via virtual conference call. This meeting was announced in a notice provided to the public, stakeholder organizations representing city officials, consulting engineers, county governments, councils of government, area planning agencies, and other groups which might have an interest. Written comments were accepted until August 18, 2022. A public meeting to allow input to Iowa’s SFY 2023 IUP third quarter update and Project Priority List, including this Annex, was held November 17, 2022, 10:00 a.m. via virtual conference call. This meeting was announced in a notice provided to stakeholder organizations representing city officials, consulting engineers, county governments, councils of government, area planning agencies, and other groups which might have an interest. Written comments were accepted until December 10, 2022.

12 https://www.iowasrf.com/infrastructure-bill-funding-opportunities/