Taxpayers and governing boards want to make sure you're not leaving money on the table or failing to obtain their share of grants and loans. What they don't know is that for every success story they hear, there are many more failed applications.rnThis is particularly true for federal programs that, like the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, have new, different, or still-evolving eligibility requirements. At press time, the House of Representatives' Jobs for Main Street Act is poised to pump $2 billion into water projects with some of the same stimulus-required Buy American and prevailing-wage previsions, while the Senate has yet to pass a major stimulus bill with direct spending for the water industry.
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