Deadline: 13-Nov-22
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.
The Technical Assistance and Training (TAT) Grant – Manufactured Homes Program has been established to assist communities with water or wastewater systems through free technical assistance and/or training provided by the grant recipients. Funding for this program is targeted to projects that support improved sustainability of water and waste services related to manufactured homes.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
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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.
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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
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Contract with a nonaffiliated organization for not more than 49 percent of the grant to provide the proposed assistance. Eligible Projects. Grants may be made to organizations as defined in §1775.35 to enable such organizations to assist associations to:
- Identify and evaluate solutions to water problems of associations in rural areas relating to source, storage, treatment, and/or distribution
- Identify and evaluate solutions to waste problems of associations in rural areas relating to collection, treatment, and/or disposal
- Prepare water and/or waste disposal loan/grant applications
- Provide technical assistance/training to association personnel that will improve the management, operation, and maintenance of water and waste facilities
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Pay the expenses associated with providing the technical assistance and/or training authorized in paragraphs
- Through
- Of this section.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344079