Technical Assistance and Training for Rural, Small and Tribal Municipalities and Wastewater Treatment Systems

Grace Persico
RuralSmallTribalNOFO@epa.gov

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is accepting applications to provide training and technical assistance to rural, small, and tribal publicly owned wastewater treatment works and decentralized wastewater treatment systems to help improve water quality and to achieve and maintain compliance.

Training and technical assistance activities must address only one of the following priorities:

• Priority 1 - Acquisition of financing/funding
• Priority 2 - Protect water quality and compliance assistance
• Priority 3 - Tribal
• Priority 4 - Decentralized systems

Institutions of higher education and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply.

Award ranges by priority area:

• Priority 1: $1,000,000 - $3,000,000
  2-3 expected awards
• Priority 2: $1,000,000 - $3,000,000
  2-4 expected awards
• Priority 3: $1,000,000 - $2,000,000
  1-3 expected awards
• Priority 4: $1,000,000 - $2,000,000
  1-3 expected awards

Projects will have a 1-3 year project period.

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.