WIFIA

About WIFIA

• The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 (WIFIA) established the WIFIA program, a federal credit program administered by EPA for eligible water and wastewater infrastructure projects.

• Eligible borrowers are:

• *Local, state, tribal, and federal government entities

• *Partnerships and joint ventures

• *Corporations and trusts

• *Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (SRF) programs.

• The list of WIFIA-eligible activities include: wastewater conveyance and treatment projects that are eligible for the Clean Water SRF and drinking water treatment and distribution projects that are eligible for the Drinking Water SRF.

• Therefore, since

  • eligible borrowers include Clean Water and Drinking Water SRF programs, and

  • eligible projects include Clean Water and Drinking Water SRF projects,

  • the Indiana Finance Authority has taken steps toward applying to the WIFIA program.

• The first step in the application process is preparing a Letter of Interest.  The IFA Letter of Interest was submitted on April 7, 2017 to the WIFIA program.

Documents and Links

• Southeastern Indiana Regional Water Study January 2018

• Availability of an Environmental Assessment and Finding of no Significant Impact

• IFA’s WIFIA Letter of Interest

• EPA WIFIA website https://www.epa.gov/wifia

• WIFIA Loan Agreement by and between the IFA and U.S. EPA

Contacts

Jim McGoff

COO & COS

(317) 233-4337 jmcgoff@ifa.in.gov

Bill Harkins

SRF Director of Underwriting

(317) 234-4862  wharkins@ifa.in.gov