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Blame Divided
Ai last Monday's WSA meeting, secretary Bob Dennis divided the blame for failure to apply as an imminent health threat between the Authority members, John Capelle (executive director of the Planning District Commission who actually filled out the grant application) and the bureaurocrats in Richmond. “Someone at the Department of Housing and Community Development could have made a phone call and straightened this out in the beginning," he said, “But I don't think it (the denial of Rappahannock's application for funding in the first block grant cycle) is going to slow us up much."
Dennis reported that letters front the SWCB dated December 6 and 10 basically announce approval of preliminary plans for Sperryville’s innovative STEP (septic tank effluent pump) collection system and conventional package treatment plant. “Between the two letters, we have final clearance from the Water Control Board to go ahead." Dennis added, however, that final approval has not yet been received from the Environmental Protection Agency, source of the SI.4 million construction grant allocated by the Water Control Board. Even if the community development block grant had been awarded to Rappahannock, work on the sewer system couldn’t have started without a green light from EPA, Dennis noted. “It takes longer for a federal agency to sign-oft... Nobody knows of any problem. It just takes time," he said.
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