Closed · EPA-OW-OWM-24-01 · CFDA 66.446 · Discretionary

Training and Technical Assistance for Rural, Small and Tribal Municipalities and Wastewater Treatment Systems for Clean Water Act Prevention, Reduction, and Elimination of Pollution

Federal grant opportunity posted by Environmental Protection Agency, cataloged on Grants.gov.

up to $4M
Award range
Closed
Status
November 25, 2024
Close date
28
Expected awards

The verdict

Training and Technical Assistance for Rural, Small and Tribal Municipalities and Wastewater Treatment Systems for Clean Water Act Prevention, Reduction, and Elimination of Pollution is a closed discretionary listing from Environmental Protection Agency that offered Up to $4,000,000 across 28 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 1,487 other opportunities from Environmental Protection Agency.

up to $4M
award range
Closed
application status
28
expected awards
66.446
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Training and Technical Assistance for Rural is closed (last close November 25, 2024). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Environmental Protection Agency still indexes 1,487 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed November 25, 2024

Posted Sep 23 Closes Nov 25

Est. Total Funding

$49,000,000

Expected Awards

28

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The EPA is soliciting applications to provide training and technical assistance to rural, small, and Tribal municipalities, publicly owned wastewater treatment works, and decentralized wastewater treatment systems for the prevention, reduction, and elimination of pollution. Eligible activities include training and technical assistance only. Each application submitted under this announcement must address one, and only one of the four Priority Areas. Only one application may be submitted for each Priority Area per applicant. Eligible organizations may submit more than one application under this competition as long as each one is separately submitted and addresses only one Priority Area. Priority area 1: Acquisition of Finance/Funding: Training and technical assistance for rural, small, and Tribal municipalities for planning, developing and acquisition of financing/funding for CWSRF eligible activities. Priority area 2: Protect Water Quality and Compliance Assistance: Training and technical assistance for rural, small, and Tribal publicly owned treatment works and decentralized wastewater systems to help improve water quality and to achieve and maintain compliance. Priority area 3: Tribal: Training and technical assistance focused specifically on Tribes for planning, developing and acquisition of financing/funding, to help improve water quality and achieve and maintain compliance, and/or to support emerging contaminants project development. Priority area 4: Decentralized Systems: Information Dissemination, Training and Technical Assistance focused specifically on decentralized wastewater treatment systems to support planning, development and acquisition of finance.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · EPA-OW-OWM-24-01

Grants.gov marks Training and Technical Assistance for Rural with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Environment (ENV). This eligibility-code string dominates the Environmental Protection Agency book (1,239 peers, 83% of 1,488).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Agency Contact

Grace Persico EPA, Office of Water (OW) Office of Wastewater Management (OWM)

What to do next

Training and Technical Assistance for Rural is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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