Texas Water Development Board

The Texas Water Development Board, a U.S. state government entity headquartered in Austin, Texas, is a federal grant recipient that administers water infrastructure, flood mitigation, and emerging contaminant remediation programs across Texas on behalf of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA Region 6).

The TWDB operates as a prime grant recipient (99% of awards) across a portfolio dominated by formula grants and project grants that support state revolving funds, flood mitigation, and water quality initiatives. It does not compete for federal contracts and does not hold a federal contracting vehicle posture. The agency's capability portfolio centers on administering capitalization grants for drinking water and clean water state revolving funds (SRF), managing flood mitigation assistance programs, providing technical support to the National Flood Insurance Program through Cooperating Technical Partners agreements, and delivering geospatial data services including LIDAR mapping and groundwater monitoring. Recent representative work includes: a $55.125 million EPA formula grant (CFDA 66.442) awarded September 1, 2025, addressing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and emerging contaminants in small and disadvantaged drinking water systems across Texas through September 30, 2029; a $62.8 million EPA capitalization grant (CFDA 66.468) for the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund with a focus on PFAS treatment, running through August 31, 2029; a $32.44 million FEMA project grant (CFDA 97.029) for Flood Mitigation Assistance awarded April 24, 2026, supporting localized flood control, property acquisitions and elevations, and drainage improvements across Texas through April 23, 2029; and a $1.44 million Department of Interior Bureau of Reclamation grant (CFDA 15.514) for Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations tool development to increase water supply reliability in multi-purpose reservoirs.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to FEMA and EPA. FEMA Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards (74 awards) and EPA Region 6 (31 awards) dominate by count, together accounting for 89% of awards. The remaining customer base spans Federal Emergency Management Agency, EPA, and the Department of Interior US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants (14 awards, $202 thousand combined potential value). The TWDB's federal footprint reflects its role as a state-level water and flood infrastructure administrator rather than a commercial contractor; the agency issues sub-awards to municipalities, utilities, drainage districts, and county governments across Texas to implement projects funded by federal grants.

Recent activity has tracked uneven: 19 awards in 2022, 37 in 2023, 13 in 2024, 7 in 2025, and 1 in 2026. Thirteen awards face completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure or grant renewal opportunity. The TWDB's federal grant portfolio, valued at $5.19 billion in obligated dollars across all awards in the source, reflects the scale of infrastructure and mitigation work flowing through the state as pass-through recipient. Sub-award activity is minimal (1% of portfolio), confined to two items: a HEC-RAS distributed-memory parallelization sub-award dated January 15, 2025, and a Model Storage & Management System sub-award for TDIS dated July 1, 2024.