Safe Drinking Water Research and Demonstration

The Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development operated the Safe Drinking Water Research and Demonstration program (CFDA 66.506), with the most recent grant award disbursed on June 1, 1999—27 years ago. This program is no longer active. The portfolio contains only two Project Grants awarded between 1996 and 1999, with no grant opportunities currently posted or recently reopened.

The two historical awards funded applied research projects: monitoring of public water supplies for Cryptosporidium and Giardia parasites, and a resource protection partnership covering the Great Bay and Ossipee ecoregions. Both were Project Grants structured as time-limited research activities with defined completion dates.

The program has no recent grant activity and should not be pursued. The 27-year gap since the final award, combined with the absence of any posted opportunities or portfolio activity in the intervening decades, indicates the program is dormant or discontinued. Applicants seeking EPA funding for drinking water research and demonstration should instead explore currently active EPA research and development programs or contact the EPA Office of Research and Development directly to identify active solicitations in this subject area.