Water and Waste Technical Assistance and Training Grants

 

Annual TAT - To identify and evaluate solutions to water and waste disposal problems in rural areas; to assist applicants in preparing applications made in accordance with 7 CFR 1780; to improve operation and maintenance of water and waste disposal facilities in rural areas. Technical Assistance and Training for Innovative Regional Wastewater Treatment Solutions (TAT/RWTS) - to identify and evaluate economically feasible innovative regional solutions to wastewater treatment concerns for historically impoverished communities in areas which have had difficulty installing traditional wastewater treatment systems due to soil conditions.

Active 10.761 Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture B - Project Grants Not applicable. Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, as amended, Sections 306(a)(16)(A), Public Law 99-198, 7 U.S.C. 1926(a).
TAT/RWTS - Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 Annual TAT - Eligible entities must be private nonprofit organizations. Applicants must have proven ability, background, experience, legal authority and actual capacity to provide technical assistance and/or training on a regional basis to associations. TAT/RWTS - Eligible entities must be consortiums (regional institutions of higher education, academic health and research institutes or economic development entities, or combination thereof, located in the region identified to be served that have experience in addressing these issues in the region). Applicants must have proven ability, background, experience, legal authority and actual capacity to provide technical assistance . Entities that may be eligible for water and waste disposal loans and grants (10.760) such as municipalities, counties, districts, authorities, and other political subdivisions of a State, organizations operated on a not-for-profit basis, such as associations, cooperatives, or private corporations, Indian tribes on Federal and State reservations and other federally recognized Indian tribes. Not applicable. Preapplication coordination is required. An environmental impact assessment is required for this listing. Standard application forms as furnished by RUS must be used for this program. 2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards applies to this program. OMB Circular A-110 applies to this program. This program is subject to the provisions of OMB Circular A-122. Applications include the criteria specified within 7 CFR 1775. This includes, but is not limited to, the requirement to submit an application form Form SF 424, Application for Federal Assistance, to the National Office in Washington, D.C. The Water and Environmental Programs staff in Washington, D.C. will review and process the application. Following completion of application processing requirements and grant approval, funds are made available to the applicant on a reimbursement basis. October 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011 Contact the headquarters or regional location, as appropriate for application deadlines Dependent upon funding availability and the completeness of the application. From 60 to 120 days following the submission deadline. An application determined ineligible may request a review of this decision with the National Appeals Division of USDA in accordance with USDA regulations at 7 CFR 11. Not applicable. Assistance will be directed to those applicants who: (1) have demonstrated ability to provide technical assistance and/or training to rural associations; (2) propose to serve multi-state, regional, or nationwide areas; (3) maximize use of grant funds for direct staffing of activities that are delivered to the associations; and (4) the population of the associations served have low income. Annual TAT - Funds may be used to pay expenses associated with providing technical assistance and/or training (TAT) to identify and evaluate solutions to water problems relating to source, storage, treatment, and distribution, and to waste disposal problems relating to collection, treatment, and disposal; assist applicants that have filed a application with RUS in the preparation of water and/or waste disposal loan and/or grant applications; and to provide training that will improve the management, operation and maintenance of water and waste disposal facilities. Grant funds may not be used to recruit applications, duplicate current services such as those performed by a consultant in developing a project, fund political activities, pay for capital assets, purchase real estate or vehicles, improve and renovate office space or repair and maintain privately owned property, pay construction or O&M costs, and pay costs incurred prior to the effective date of grants made. TAT/RWTS - Funds must be used to identify and evaluate innovative regional solutions to wastewater treatment solutions for historically impoverished communities in areas which have had difficulty installing traditional wastewater treatment systems due to soil conditions. The work product must be related to a proposed project that is regional in scope.Grant funds may not be used to recruit applications, duplicate current services such as those performed by a consultant in developing a project, fund political activities, pay for capital assets, purchase real estate or vehicles, improve and renovate office space or repair and maintain privately owned property, pay construction or O&M costs, and pay costs incurred prior to the effective date of grants made. Not applicable. In accordance with the provisions of 2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles and Audit Requirements, Subpart F, Audit Requirements (Revised, December 26, 2013)nonfederal entities that expend financial assistance of $750,000 or more in Federal awards will have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year. Nonfederal entities that expend less than $750,000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in Subpart F. Annual audit or Management Report Financial records, supporting documents, statistical records, and all other records pertinent to the grant must be retained for a period of at least three years after closing. Statutory formula is not applicable to this assistance listing.

Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. A time limitation is not specified, however, priority will be given to applicants whose time frame for completion of the technical assistance and/or training grant project is 12 months or less. Method of awarding/releasing assistance: Quarterly. Consult your local telephone directory under United States Government, Department of Agriculture, for Rural Development office number. If no listing, get in touch with the appropriate RD State Office listed in Appendix IV of the Catalog. Charles Stephens
Rural Utilities Service, 1400 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20250 US
charlesd.stephens@usda.gov
Phone: (202) 619-8500 http://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/all-programs/water-environmental-programs 12-1980-0-1-452 (Project Grants) FY 22$37,386,636.00; FY 23 est $38,898,008.00; FY 24 est $38,898,008.00; FY 21$36,777,164.00; FY 20$29,999,792.00; FY 19$30,083,280.00; FY 18$41,164,931.00; - (Project Grants (for specified projects)) FY 22$0.00; FY 23 est $5,150,091.00; FY 24 est $0.00; FY 21$4,849,909.00; FY 20$0.00; FY 19$0.00; - $32,500 to $9,999,999. Average: $1,557,777 7 CFR, Part 1775, Technical Assistance and Training Grants. Not applicable.