The U.S. Environment Protection Agency, is soliciting applications from eligible applicants to plan, prepare, and provide technical support for four annual three-day National State Revolving Fund (SRF) Infrastructure Financing and Training Workshops.
Donor Name: U.S. Environment Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/23/2023
Size of the Grant: $600,000
Grant Duration: 4 years
Details:
The EPA’s SRF programs have helped a wide range of communities receive the assistance they need to help repair, restore or replace their drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. Each program is a federal-state partnership that can provide grants to all 50 states and Puerto Rico to capitalize SRF loan programs and provide low interest loans to recipients for eligible water quality and drinking water projects.
The workshops will focus on SRF program officials and other interested stakeholders and should address new developments in the Clean Water and Drinking Water SRF programs, such as the Justice40 initiative and BIL provisions including Buy America Build America Act (BABAA), while promoting best management practices (including strategic management), identifying environmental outputs and outcomes (improved water quality and public health), and encouraging innovative approaches when dealing with the programmatic and financial aspects of each program.
The workshops will provide a forum for training in the programmatic, financial, and technical aspects of the SRF programs. Workshop participants will examine and discuss SRF management issues, and information and lessons learned by the states, EPA, and others interested in the programs will be exchanged. The training workshops should include innovative approaches to finance water infrastructure and reduce costs of infrastructure through SRF management.
Types of Funding
EPA intends to award cooperative agreements under this solicitation. Cooperative agreements provide for substantial involvement between the EPA Project Officer and the selected applicant(s) in the performance of the work supported. Although EPA will negotiate precise terms and conditions relating to substantial involvement as part of the award process, the anticipated substantial federal involvement may include:
- close monitoring of the successful applicant’s performance to verify the results proposed by the applicant;
- collaboration during performance of the scope of work;
- in accordance with review of proposed procurements;
- approving qualifications of key personnel (EPA will not select employees or contractors employed by the recipient); and
- review and comment on reports prepared under the cooperative agreement(s) (the final decision on the content of these reports rests with the recipient).
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,800,000
- Award Ceiling: $600,000
Project Period
It is anticipated that the project period for the awards will be up to four years.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants under this competition are states, local governments, Indian Tribes, intertribal consortia, territories and possessions of the U.S. (including the District of Columbia), public and private institutions. Individuals and for-profit organizations 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. The statutory authority for this announcement is Section 104(b)(3) of the Clean Water Act (CWA). An intertribal consortium is a partnership between two or more tribes that is authorized by the governing bodies of those tribes to apply for and receive assistance. The intertribal consortium is eligible only if the consortium demonstrates that all of its members meet the eligibility requirements and authorize the consortium to apply for and receive assistance in accordance at the time of application submission. An intertribal consortium must submit with its application to EPA adequate documentation of the existence of the partnership and the authorization of the consortium by its members to apply for and receive the grant.
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