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State and Federal Funding
Identifying the need for an infrastructure improvement program is one thing. Finding a way to fund it is another. To help, we've assembled information on, and links to, a wide range of state and federal funding sources that just might offer the grants or low-cost financing you're looking for.
EPAClean Water Financing
http://www.epa.gov/owm/cwfinance/index.htm
EPA Clean Water State Revolving Fund
http://yosemite.epa.gov/water/owrccatalog.nsf/SingleKeyword?Openview
EPA Hardship Grants Program
http://www.usda.gov/rus/water/docs/epa50.pdf
EPA Small Communities Grant Program
http://www.epa.gov/owm/mab/smcomm/
NonPoint Source Pollution Funding Opportunities
http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/funding.html
Wastewater Treatment Plans Serving Small Communities
http://www.epa.gov/owm/mab/smcomm/eparev.htm
http://www.epa.gov/owm/mab/smcomm/under.pdf
Community Development Block Grant Program (Administered by HUD)
Community development block grant program funds are distributed directly to larger communities, called entitlement communities, as well as to states for distribution to smaller communities. To be eligible for funding under the block grant program, an activity or project must meet at least one of the program's designated national objectives: benefiting low- and moderate-income persons, preventing or eliminating slums or blight, and addressing particularly urgent community development needs caused by conditions that pose a serious and immediate threat to the community's health or welfare.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/programs/cdbg.cfm
Clean Water State Revolving Fund (Administered by the EPA):
Under the SRF program, each state and Puerto Rico have created revolving loan funds to provide independent and permanent sources of low-cost financing for a range of water quality infrastructure projects.
More information is available at: http://www.epa.gov/owm/cwfinance/index.htm
State Contacts: http://www.epa.gov/r5water/cwsrf/pdf/agency.pdf
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (Administered by the EPA):
The Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended in 1996, established the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) to make funds available to drinking water systems to finance infrastructure improvements.
www.epa.gov/safewater/dwsrf/index.html
State Contacts: www.epa.gov/safewater/dwsrf/nims/dwagency2.pdf
Public Works Program (Administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration):
The Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration provides grants to communities in economic decline to revitalize, expand and upgrade their physical infrastructure, including water and sewer facilities.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_register&docid=02-4882-filed.pdf
Rural Utilities Service (Administered by the USDA):
The USDA provides direct loans, loan guarantees and grants to construct or improve drinking water, sanitary sewer, solid waste and storm drainage facilities in rural communities. http://www.usda.gov/rus/water/index.htm
Appalachian Regional Commission
The commission makes grants to states or private nonprofit agencies within the Appalachian region. http://www.arc.gov/index.do?nodeId=101 Hazard Mitigation Grants Program (Administered by FEMA): FEMA provides funding to implement measures that permanently reduce or eliminate future damages and losses from natural hazards through safer building practices and improving existing structures.
http://www.fema.gov/fima/hmgp/
Public Assistance Infrastructure Recovery Program (Administered by FEMA):
FEMA provides grants to public entities and certain private nonprofit organizations as disaster aid to repair, replace or supplement parts of a community's infrastructure.
http://www.fema.gov/rrr/pa/overview.shtm
Handbook on Coordinating Funding for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure:
A Compilation of State Approaches
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwsrf/pdfs/
Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection
http://cfpub.epa.gov/fedfund/
CFDA - Community Development Block Grants/Small Cities Program
http://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30
USDA - Water and Waste Programs
http://www.usda.gov/rus/water/programs.htm#LOANS
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