Calendar Year 2022 Disaster Water Grants

The Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service is soliciting applications for Calendar Year 2022 Disaster Water Grants to fund water infrastructure repairs and resilience projects in communities impacted by Presidentially Declared Disasters occurring during 2022, with an application deadline of June 11, 2026. Program funds have been exhausted and the application window is closed.

Eligible applicants are public bodies, not-for-profit organizations, tribes, or prefabricated home organizations operating eligible community-based water systems in designated disaster-affected areas. Non-tribal applicants proposing to serve tribes and tribal areas must have tribal support in the form of a Tribal Resolution and/or letter of support. Each applicant must possess or obtain legal authority necessary for owning, constructing, operating, and maintaining the facility or service to be repaired or replaced and for issuing security for the proposed grant; be responsible for operating, maintaining, and managing the facility and providing for its continued availability and use at reasonable user rates and charges; and retain this responsibility even though the facility may be operated, maintained, or managed by a third party under contract or management agreement. Applicants must be eligible to receive and administer a Federal grant under Federal law.

Water infrastructure systems eligible for funding include drinking water, wastewater, solid waste, and stormwater projects serving eligible communities. Grants support damage repairs and system capacity and resiliency development to reduce or eliminate long-term risks from future events. Applicants must provide adequate documentation demonstrating impacts to water infrastructure systems.

Total available funding is at least $247.25 million. Eligible disaster-affected areas include Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia.

Applications are submitted electronically through RD Apply at https://rdapply.sc.egov.usda.gov/. This opportunity operates under CFDA 10.760, Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities.