"in partnership with the 104(g)(1) grantees, with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency." "April 2000." "The Maryland Center for Environmental Training performed the 1999 National Program Evaluation and developed this report under EPA grant number X-993916-01-0."

This report is intended to present an overview of the 104(g)(1) Wastewater Operator Training Program as it is currently being implemented throughout the country. All 104(g)(1) grantees and EPA regional coordinators were surveyed in April 1999 to collect data on: funding, program staffing, numbers of facilities assisted, types of assistance provided, referral sources, circumstances for delivery of assistance, factors limiting performance at plants, factors limiting the assistance program's success, reasons for and types of program successes. The survey responses and data from other program resources have been summarized and are presented in the Program Evaluation Report. Case studies are published in this evaluation to present vignettes of the program and the ways it works throughout the country.