The Rural Utilities Service (RUS or Agency), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announces its Rural Decentralized Water System (DWS) Program for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022.
Donor Name: Rural Utilities Service
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/31/2022
Grant Size: $5,000,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The goal is not only to make funds available to those communities most in need of clean water and waste treatment solutions but also to ensure facilities used to deliver drinking water and wastewater services are safe and affordable. The Rural Decentralized Water Systems (DWS) Grant Program is vital to USDA’s efforts to help rural Americans who lack access to public water or wastewater treatment facilities.
The DWS Grant Program is intended to help eligible rural households that make less than 60 percent of the state nonmetro median household income offset the cost of household water wells and wastewater systems. With the DWS program, USDA makes grants to qualified private, nonprofit organizations which then establish lending programs – loans and subgrants – that support individual household water wells and wastewater systems.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $5,000,000.
- Performance Period: October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- An organization is eligible to receive a DWS grant if it:
- has an active registration with current information in the System for Award Management (SAM) and has a Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number;
- is a private, non-profit organization;
- is legally established and located within one of the following:
- a state within the United States;
- the District of Columbia;
- the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or
- a United States territory;
- has the legal capacity and authority to carry out the grant purpose;
- has sufficient expertise and experience in lending activities;
- has sufficient expertise and experience in promoting the safe and productive use of individually-owned household water wells or decentralized wastewater systems;
- has no delinquent debt to the Federal government or no outstanding judgments to repay a Federal debt;
- demonstrates that it possesses the financial, technical, and managerial capability to comply with Federal and State laws and requirements, and is not a corporation that has been convicted of a felony (or had an officer or agent acting on behalf of the corporation convicted of a felony) within the past 24 months.
- Any Corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agreement with the authority responsible for collecting the tax liability is not eligible.
- An individual is ineligible to receive a DWS grant.
- However, an individual may receive a loan or sub-grant from an organization receiving a grant award.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
