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RELUCTANTLY, the Rappahannock Supervisors have agreed to become the applicant for a $188,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The HUD funds would supplement a larger grant from the Environmental Protection Agency which will be used for the design of a sewer system for Sperryville. H. B. Wood voted against the decision to act as grant applicants on behalf of the county Water and Sanitation Authority. “The folks in Sperryville don’t know what they’re getting in to,” he said. “I’m not sure they’d want this, if they did.”
Maury Biddle, chairman of the county Water and Sanitation Authority, and George Long from the Engineering firm which is designing the system, told the Supervisors last Thursday, December 4, that the $188,000 grant from HUD is necessary because the Virginia legislature failed to appropriate funds which would cover the state’s promised share of the cost of the Sperryville sewer system. The Water and Sanitation Authority can’t apply for the grant because HUD will only accept applications from elected governing bodies, not agencies or individuals appointed by that governing body, Biddle and Long said. They had to approach the Supervisors because Sperryville is unincorporated.
The EPA will pay 75% of the design and construction costs of the sewer project. In most cases, the state agrees to pay 15% and the local users of the system pay the remaining 10%. But in Sperry - ville’s case, the median income of the area was so low that the project qualified as a “hardship case” and the state promised to pay 20%, leaving only 5% of the cost
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