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Household Water Well Grant Program

ID: RDRUS-16-01-HWWS • Type: Posted

Description

The HWWS Grant Program has been established to help individuals with low to moderate incomes finance the costs of household water wells that they own or will own. Eligible Grant Purposes a. Grant funds must be used to establish and maintain a revolving loan fund to provide loans to eligible individuals for household water well systems. b. Individuals may use the loans to construct, refurbish, rehabilitate, or replace household water well systems up to the point of entry of a home. Point of entry for the well system is the junction where water enters into a home water delivery system after being pumped from a well. c. Grant funds may be used to pay administrative expenses associated with providing Household Water Well loans.

Overview

Category of Funding
Agriculture
Environment
Health
Funding Instruments
Grant
Grant Category
Discretionary
Cost Sharing / Matching Requirement
True
Source
On 3/11/16 Rural Utilities Services posted grant opportunity RDRUS-16-01-HWWS for Household Water Well Grant Program with funding of $1.2 million. The grant will be issued under grant program 10.862 Rural Decentralized Water Systems Grant Program. It is expected that 10 total grants will be made.

Timing

Posted Date
March 11, 2016, 12:00 a.m. EST
Closing Date
May 9, 2016, 12:00 a.m. EDT Past Due
Version
1
Archive Date
June 8, 2016

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Info
1. An organization is eligible to receive a HWWS grant if it: a. Has an active registration with current information in the System for Award Management (SAM) and has a Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS)number. b. Is a private, non-profit organization. c. Is legally established and located within one of the following: (1) A state within the United States (2) The District of Columbia (3) The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (4) A United States territory. d. Has the legal capacity and authority to carry out the grant purpose. e. Has sufficient expertise and experience in lending activities. f. Has sufficient expertise and experience in promoting the safe and productive use of individually-owned HWWS and ground water. g. Has no delinquent debt to the federal government or no outstanding judgments to repay a Federal debt. h. Demonstrates that it possesses the financial, technical, and managerial capability to comply with Federal and State laws and requirements, and i. Is not a corporation that has been convicted of a felony (or had an officer or agent acting on behalf of the corporation convicted of a felony) within the past 24 months. Any Corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agreement with the authority responsible for collecting the tax liability is not eligible. 2. An individual is ineligible to receive a Household Water Well grant. An individual may receive a loan from an organization receiving a grant award.

Award Sizing

Ceiling
Not Listed
Floor
Not Listed
Estimated Program Funding
$1,192,081
Estimated Number of Grants
10

Contacts

Contact
Utilities Programs
Email Description
Email Address
Contact Phone
(202) 690-1078
Additional Information
Website Address

Documents

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