LAC 33:IX.2121. Allowable Costs

A. Allowable costs as defined in LAC 33:IX.2105 may include, but may not be limited to, the following: 1. costs of salaries, benefits, and expendable material the applicant incurs for the project; 2. costs under construction contracts; 3. professional and consultant services; 4. facilities planning directly related to a treatment works; 5. sewer system evaluation; 6. project feasibility and engineering reports; 7. costs of complying with the National Environmental Policy Act, including costs of public notices and hearings; 8. preparation of construction drawings, specifications, estimates, and construction contract documents; 9. landscaping; 10. removal and relocation or replacement of utilities, for which the applicant is legally obligated to pay; 11. materials acquired, consumed, or expended specifically for the project; 12. a reasonable inventory of laboratory chemicals and/or other supplies necessary to initiate operation of the project; 13. start-up services for new treatment works, in accordance with guidance issued by the department; 14. project identification signs, if necessary; 15. development of a municipal pre-treatment program and purchase of monitoring equipment and construction of facilities to be used by the municipal treatment works in the pre-treatment program; and 16. costs of complying with procurement requirements.