Revolving Funds for Financing Water and Wastewater Projects

Eligible regions include:

• Rural areas and towns with populations of 10,000 or less. 
• Tribal lands in rural areas
• Colonias

The RFP is designed to help qualified nonprofits create revolving loan funds that can provide financing to extend and improve water and wastewater disposal systems in rural areas. Grant recipients will set up a revolving loan fund to provide loans to finance predevelopment costs of water or wastewater projects, or short-term small capital projects not part of the regular operation and maintenance of current water and wastewater systems. Capital projects should consider energy efficiency, resiliency, and water reuse technologies.

Rural Development Key Priorities: The Agency encourages applicants to consider projects that will advance the following key priorities (more details available at https://www.rd.usda.gov/priority-points):

• Assisting rural communities recover economically through more and better market opportunities and through improved infrastructure;
• Ensuring all rural residents have equitable access to Rural Development (RD) programs and benefits from RD funded projects; and
• Reducing climate pollution and increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change through economic support to rural communities.

Grant funds may be used to create a revolving loan fund for eligible water and wastewater systems operated by:

• State and local governmental entities
• Nonprofits
• Indian tribes on federal and state reservations and other federally recognized Indian tribes

What may the revolving loan fund be used for?

• Pre-development costs for water and wastewater treatment projects.
• Short-term small capital improvement projects that are not part of the regular operations and maintenance.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)

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