EXAMPLE 1 VENDOR AGREEMENTVendor Agreement • July 22nd, 2021
Public Law No: 116-260 signed on December 27, 2020, included funding with instructions for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to carry out grants to assist low-income households, particularly those with the lowest incomes, that pay a high proportion of household income for drinking water and wastewater services, by providing funds to owners or operators of public water systems or treatment works to reduce arrearages of and rates charged to such households for such services. This act requires that certain assurances be satisfied before assistance payments are made, on behalf of eligible individuals, to suppliers of drinking water and wastewater. This agreement defines the conditions that the Vendor must agree to so that the Agency can make assistance payments to the Vendor on behalf of eligible households.