The Rural Utilities Service (RUS or Agency), a Rural Development (RD) mission area of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), announces acceptance of applications under the Rural Decentralized Water Systems (DWS) program for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.
Donor Name: Rural Utilities Service
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/28/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The purpose of the program is to access to safe and reliable water and wastewater systems is vital to both human health and economic development. Due to a variety of factors, it is not always feasible to have public water or wastewater services run to each residence. In those instances, individual well water and septic systems may be the most technical and financially feasible means of providing access to safe and reliable water and wastewater services. The DWS program was established to help individuals with low to moderate incomes finance the costs of household water well systems and individually owned decentralized wastewater systems that they own or will own.
Through the DWS program, private non-profit organizations will receive grant funds to establish lending programs that will provide water well and wastewater system loans and sub grants to individuals.
Funding Information
Estimated Total Program Funding: $5,000,000.
Performance Period
October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be a private organization.
- The applicant must be organized as a non-profit organization.
- The applicant must have legal capacity and lawful authority to perform the obligations of a grant recipient under this part.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
