USDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROVIDES FUNDS TO TURNERVILLE WATER
AND SEWER DISTRICT

October 27, 2005 - Casper, WY - The United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development
provided $592,750 to the Turnerville Water and Sewer District for their water project. Funds will be
used to rehabilitate the spring to insure source protection and stand-by disinfection; installing new
transmission lines from the spring to the storage facility; new distribution lines throughout the service
area and a larger storage tank. The project will benefit 155 residents with adequate, decent, safe
and sanitary drinking water.

The funding from USDA Rural Development was a combination loan/grant. The loan is in the amount
of $356,000 and the grant totals $236,750. Total cost of the project is $1,509,444. Wyoming Water
Development Commission is contributing $636,694 and a grant in the amount of $280,000 was
contributed by the Community Development Block Grant to complete the funding package.

According to State Director Del Tinsley, "The Rural Utilities Programs, a part of the USDA Rural
Development, administers the water and waste/water loan and grant program to improve the quality
of life and promote economic development in rural America. Priority is given to public entities in areas
with less than 5,500 people to restore a deteriorating water supply, or to improve, enlarge, or modify a
water facility or an inadequate waste facility."

For additional information regarding the Rural Utility programs, contact the Rural Development
State Office at (307) 233-6719.