Deadline: 23-Jun-23
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 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.
The workshops will target SRF program officials and other interested stakeholders and provide a forum for training in the programmatic, financial, and technical aspects of the two SRF programs, the Clean Water SRF and the Drinking Water SRF.
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.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,800,000
- Award Ceiling: $600,000.
EPA’s Strategic Plan and Anticipated Environmental Results
- Applicants must demonstrate in their application how their project and proposed activities link to the Strategic Plan Goal and Objective identified.
- The activities to be funded under this solicitation support the FY 2022 –2026 EPA Strategic Plan Awards made under this solicitation support Goal 5: Ensure Clean and Safe Water for All Communities: Provide clean and safe water for all communities and protect their nation’s waterbodies from degradation.
- Objective 5.1: Ensure Safe Drinking Water and Reliable Water
- Infrastructure: Protect public health from the risk of exposure to regulated and emerging contaminants in drinking and source waters by improving the reliability, accessibility, and resilience of the nation’s water infrastructure to reduce the impacts of climate change, structural deterioration, and cyber threats.
- EPA also requires that applicants adequately describe environmental outputs and outcomes to be achieved under assistance agreements. All proposed projects must address the Strategic Plan and include specific statements describing the environmental results of the proposed project in terms of well-defined outputs, and to the maximum extent practicable, welldefined outcomes that will demonstrate how the project will contribute to the overall goal of improved public health and water quality and increasing the non-federal dollars leveraged by the EPA CWSRF and DWSRF water infrastructure finance programs.
- Environmental results are a way to gauge a project’s performance and are described in terms of outputs and outcomes. Expected environmental outputs (or deliverables) refer to an environmental activity, effort, and/or associated work product related to an environmental goal or objective, that will be produced or provided over a period of time or by a specified date.
- Outputs may be quantitative or qualitative but must be measurable during an assistance agreement funding period.
- Examples of anticipated environmental outputs from the cooperative agreement(s) to be awarded under this announcement include, but are not limited to:
- Identification of program innovations and best practices.
- Training workshops related to Clean Water and Drinking Water Infrastructure Financing and associated logistical support and training materials.
Eligibility Criteria
- In accordance with Assistance Listing 66.436, 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. 1 Nonprofit organizations described in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities as defined in Section 3 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 with 40 CFR 35.504 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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