U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking applications from organizations with a demonstrable history of providing effective, results-oriented technical assistance to public water systems.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 01/26/2023
Size of the Grant: $22,000,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The Agency’s priorities include maximizing funds to provide significant benefit to drinking water systems in communities of need; tackling the climate crisis; and advancing environmental justice and equity. EPA believes this funding plays a significant role to ensure continued access to resources to support infrastructure improvements that protect public health, safeguard the environment, and mitigate environmental justice concerns at the public water system.
Objectives
EPA is soliciting applications from eligible applicants for training and technical assistance projects in three National Priority Areas as discussed in further detail below. While EPA expects to make at least one award in each area, there is no guarantee that this will be done, and EPA may redistribute the awards per area based on the quality of applications received and other applicable considerations.
EPA’s current priorities include protecting public health, ensuring, and advancing environmental justice and equity, and revitalizing communities when providing training and technical assistance. In addition, EPA seeks to address climate change issues.
EPA aims to maximize the potential for these funds to significantly benefit rural, small, or tribal communities with training and technical assistance in their respective public waters systems.
This goal will be achieved when everyone enjoys:
- The same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards, and
- Equal access to the decision-making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work.
Priority Areas
- National Priority Area 1: Training and Technical Assistance for Small Public Water Systems to Achieve and Maintain Compliance with the SDWA, including Improving Financial and Managerial Capacity.
- National Priority Area 2: Training and Technical Assistance for Small Publicly-Owned Wastewater Systems and Onsite/Decentralized Wastewater Systems to Help Improve Water Quality and Sustainable Operations.
- National Priority Area 3: Training and Technical Assistance for Private Drinking Water Well Owners to Help Improve Water Quality
Applicants should describe their proposed approach to making training and technical assistance available nationally in all 50 states and the U.S. territories.
Funding Information
- The total amount of federal funding potentially available under this announcement is approximately $25,700,000, depending on Agency funding levels, the quality of applications received, agency priorities, and other applicable considerations. Applications for awards under National Priority Area 1 cannot exceed $22,000,000 in federal funds; applications for awards under National Priority Area 2 cannot exceed $1,000,000 in federal funds; and applications for awards under National Priority Area 3 cannot exceed $2,700,000 in federal funds. Applications exceeding the amount for the National Priority Area it addresses will be rejected.
- It is anticipated that the cooperative agreements funded under this announcement will have two year project periods.
Eligibility Information
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 as defined in Section 3 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.
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