EPA Water and Wastewater Technical Assistance (TA)

waterta@epa.gov

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides technical assistance (TA) to build community capacity, resolve compliance challenges, and address water infrastructure needs in large and small water systems in rural, tribal, urban, and suburban communities across the country.

Challenges TA can help the community address include:

• Lead service line identification and replacement
• Drinking water treatment plant and pipe upgrades or building new drinking water infrastructure
• Wastewater treatment plant and pipe upgrades or building new wastewater infrastructure
• Connecting households or small drinking water/wastewater systems to larger systems
• Stormwater, green infrastructure, and water conservation projects
• Source water protection
• Emerging contaminant challenges
• Improving cybersecurity
• Improving climate resiliency

TA services include:

• Identifying water infrastructure or water quality improvement needs
• Planning for capital improvements
• Building technical, managerial, and financial capacity
• Preparing for and developing applications materials for financing a project through the State Revolving Funds (SRF) and other EPA-supported funding opportunities

Eligible participants:

• Local governments/communities
• Drinking water utilities/systems
• Wastewater utilities/systems
• Stormwater utilities/systems
• States, tribes, and territories
• Non-governmental organizations that are seeking federal funding for water projects

This is a technical assistance opportunity.

Complete the online TA request form.

Press release April 27, 2023
EPA Invests $41 million in New Technical Assistance to Help Communities Address Wastewater Challenges