Grants for 2021 Training and Technical Assistance to Improve Water Quality in the US
Deadline: 3-Dec-21
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting applications under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA) from eligible applicants to provide training and technical assistance for small public water systems, small publicly owned wastewater systems, communities served by onsite/decentralized wastewater systems, and private drinking water well owners.
Training and technical assistance activities provided to these systems, communities, and private drinking water well owners should be made available nationally in rural and urban communities and to personnel of tribally-owned and -operated systems.
Priority Areas
Training and Technical Assistance for Small Public Water Systems to Achieve and Maintain Compliance with the SDWA, including Improving Financial and Managerial Capacity: EPA is soliciting applications to provide training and technical assistance for small public water systems to enable such systems to achieve and maintain compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), and to build their financial and managerial capacity to provide safe drinking water over the long term.
Training and Technical Assistance for Small Publicly-Owned Wastewater Systems and Onsite / Decentralized Wastewater Systems to Help Improve Water Quality and Sustainable Operations: EPA is soliciting applications to provide training and technical assistance to:
small publicly-owned wastewater systems; and
communities served by onsite / decentralized wastewater systems.
Training and Technical Assistance for Private Drinking Water Well Owners to Help Improve Water Quality: EPA is soliciting applications to provide training and technical assistance to private drinking water well owners. For the purposes of this announcement, a “private well” is defined as a well owned by a homeowner or group of homeowners that supplies drinking water to fewer than 25 people and contains fewer than 15 service connections.
Funding Information
The total amount of federal funding potentially available under this announcement is approximately $ 21,700,000.
It is anticipated that awards made under National Priority Area 1 will total approximately $ 19,000,000 in federal funds; awards made under National Priority Area 2 will total approximately $ 1,000,000 in federal funds; and awards made under National Priority Area 3 will total approximately $ 1,700,000 in federal funds.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants under this competition are nonprofit organizations, nonprofit private universities and colleges, and public institutions of higher education.
For-profit organizations are not eligible to apply.
States, municipalities, tribal governments, and individuals are not eligible to apply.
Nonprofit organizations described in Section 501 (c) (4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible to apply.
EPA may ask applicants to demonstrate that they are eligible for funding under this announcement.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=336143