The Rural Utilities Service (RUS or the Agency), a Rural Development agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), announces the acceptance of applications supporting improved sustainability of water and waste services related to manufactured homes under the Rural Water and Wastewater Technical Assistance and Training (TAT) Program.
Donor Name: Rural Utilities Service
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/13/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Technical Assistance and Training Grant (TATG) program is designed to assist communities with water or wastewater systems through technical assistance and training provided by grant recipients to rural water and wastewater organizations.
Qualified private, nonprofit organizations receive TATG program funds to identify and evaluate solutions to water and waste disposal problems in rural areas, assist applicants in preparing applications for water and waste grants made at state-level offices, and improve the operation and maintenance of existing water and waste disposal facilities in rural areas.
Funding Information
- Available Funds: $1,000,000 will be made available for applications directed at Technical Assistance and Training for purposes that support improved sustainability of water and waste services related to manufactured homes.
- Performance Period. December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023
Eligibility Criteria
- Entities eligible for grants must be private nonprofit organizations with tax exempt status, designated by the Internal Revenue Service. A nonprofit organization is defined as any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization that:
- Is operated primarily for scientific, education, service, charitable, or similar purposes in the public interest.
- Is not organized primarily for profit.
- Uses its net proceeds to maintain, improve, and/or expand its operations.
- Entities must be legally established and located within a state as defined in § 1775.2.
- Organizations must be incorporated by December 31 of the year the application period occurs to be eligible for funds.
- Private businesses, Federal agencies, public bodies, and individuals are ineligible for these grants.
- Applicants must also have the proven ability, background, experience (as evidenced by the organization’s satisfactory completion of project(s) similar to those proposed), legal authority, and actual capacity to provide technical assistance and/or training on a regional basis to associations as provided in § 1775.33. To meet the requirement of actual capacity, an applicant must either:
- Have the necessary resources to provide technical assistance and/or training to associations in rural areas through its staff, or
- Be assisted by an affiliate or member organization which has such background and experience and which agrees, in writing, that it will provide the assistance, or
- Contract with a nonaffiliated organization for not more than 49 percent of the grant to provide the proposed assistance.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.