This agreement provides a capitalization grant for the recipient's drinking water state revolving fund (dwsrf) program

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 awarded the Kansas Department of Health & Environment a Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) capitalization grant of $14.6 million on August 1, 2025, under CFDA 66.468. This five-year award, extending through July 30, 2030, enables the state to establish a low-interest financing mechanism for public water systems to fund planning, design, and construction of eligible drinking water infrastructure improvements. The recipient may allocate portions of the capitalization grant to set-asides for technical assistance to small water systems, operator certification activities, and source water protection initiatives. The anticipated deliverables include financing for public health-related water infrastructure projects and capacity-building activities that increase the technical, managerial, and financial capabilities of participating public water systems throughout Kansas.

Under this award, the Kansas Department of Health & Environment has issued subawards to four local water entities for specific infrastructure projects: the City of Gaylord (construction of a new treatment plant with disinfection and arsenic treatment capabilities); Rural Water District No. 1 Barber County Kansas (replacement of distribution pipe, system extension, booster pump station, and meter system installation); the City of Oakley (transmission main construction and user meter replacement); and the City of Belpre (water treatment plant rehabilitation including media replacement and equipment upgrades). These subawards, issued between June and October 2025, represent the direct application of capitalization grant funding to address critical drinking water infrastructure needs in rural and municipal water systems across the state.

The award furthers the public health protection objectives of the safe drinking water act (sdwa). Activities:the recipient of these funds will provide low interest rate financing to eligible public water systems for the costs associated with the planning, design, and construction of eligible drinking water improvement projects. The recipient may also use some of the funding for specific set-asides, including but not limited to providing technical assistance to small systems, for operator certification activities, and source water protection activities. Subrecipient:subawards are included in this assistance agreement as loans and grants.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include financing, planning, design, and construction of eligible public health-related projects. Deliverables will also be used to increase the technical, managerial, and financial capacity of public water systems. The expected outcome is public health protection. The intended beneficiaries include citizens throughout the state.