Grant · State & Local
The Safe and Affordable Funding for Equity and Resilience Program (SAFER)
California - State Water Resources Control Board CA
- Status Open, no deadline listed
- Amount Amount not listed
- Set-aside None (open competition)
Scope
Eligible applicants: Nonprofit; Public Agency; Tribal Government.
In 2019, Senate Bill 200 (SB200) established the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water (SADW) Fund to address funding gaps and provide solutions to water systems, especially those serving DACs, to address both their short- and long-term drinking water needs.
The SADW Fund is one of several funds that are part of the larger SAFER Program.
Complementary funding sources administered by the State Water Board’s Division of Financial Assistance for drinking water projects include: General Fund allocations, the Cleanup and Abatement Account, Proposition 68 Drinking Water, Proposition 1 and Proposition 68 Groundwater, and the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF), which offers repayable, low-interest financing and loans with partial or complete principal forgiveness.
Up to $130 million per year will be available from the SADW Fund for ten years (starting with Fiscal Year 2020-21) for local assistance and state operations.
The amount available from complementary funding sources varies each year.
The priority uses of the SADW Fund include: 1) addressing any emergency or urgent funding needs, where other emergency funds are not available and a critical water shortage or outage could occur without support from the Fund; 2) addressing community water systems (CWSs) and school water systems out of compliance with primary health standards, focusing on small Disadvantaged Communities (DACs); 3) accelerating consolidations f
Timeline
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Posted
Jun 8, 2020
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Status
Open now
How to apply for this
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