Each state has an approved program for ensuring technical, managerial, and financial (TMF) capacity in public water systems. The documents and tools below contain information for use by state program management.

• Implementation of Capacity Development Program – Related Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments in the America’s Water Infrastructure Act
  This memorandum describes the approaches and methods for asset management promotion and training that are consistent with the 2018 America’s Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA), Section 2012 requirements.
• Assessing Water System Managerial Capacity (816-K-12-004)
  This document was developed to provide ideas on assessing managerial capacity for those involved in the Capacity Development Program, including EPA Headquarters staff, EPA Regional staff and state staff. In addition, this document may be informative to the staff of other programs (e.g., Drinking Water State Revolving Fund) who help public water systems (PWSs) attain and maintain technical, managerial and financial (TMF) capacity.
• State Programs to Ensure Demonstration of Technical, Managerial and Financial Capacity of New Water Systems (816-R-01-018)
  This document summarizes each State's response to this provision of the SDWA.
• State Strategies to Assist Public Water Systems in Acquiring and Maintaining Technical, Managerial, and Financial Capacity (816-R-01-019)
  This document summarizes each State's response to this provision of the SDWA.
• Handbook for Capacity Development: Developing Water System Capacity under the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended in 1996 (816-R-99-012)
  A handbook regarding capacity development and developing water system capacity under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
• Guidance on Implementing the Capacity Development Provisions of the 1996 SDWA Amendments (816-R-98-006)
  This guidance is the result of a thorough stakeholder consultation process initiated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC).
• Re-Energizing the Capacity Development Program: Findings & Best Practices from the Capacity Development Re-Energizing Workgroup (816-R-11-004)
  The findings and best practices from the Capacity Development Re-Energizing Workgroup

Return to Capacity Building Resources for States

• Update to the Implementation of Capacity Development & Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Programs to Reflect the New Enforcement Policy and Enforcement Targeting Tool (PDF)(862 pp, 883 K, March 2012)
  Memorandum from the director of the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water to EPA Regional Water Division Directors to provide updated policy on how EPA and the states will implement the Capacity Development and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs to reflect the new Enforcement Response Policy and the Enforcement Targeting Tool.
• Reporting Criteria for Annual State Capacity Development Program Implementation Reports (PDF)(5 pp, 2 MB, June 2005)
  A memorandum regarding reporting criteria for Annual State Capacity Development Program implementation.
• State Asset Management Initiatives (PDF)(15 pp, 546 K)
  This document summarizes the initiatives states are taking in regard to asset management.