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Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief

Program Information

Popular name

WaterSMART Drought Response Program

Program Number

15.514

Program objective

Funding under the Drought Response Program will be provided to: (1) develop or update comprehensive drought contingency plans and (2) implement projects that will build long-term resiliency to drought and water scarcity.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2017

    No information available. In FY17, available funding was used to select 6 Drought Contingency Plans and 11 Drought Resiliency Projects.

  2. 2018

    No information available.

  3. 2019

    In FY18, available funding was used to select 2 Drought Contingency Plans and 185 Drought Resiliency Projects.

    In FY19, available funding was used to select 18 Drought Resiliency Projects.

  4. 2020

    Available funding was used to select 4 Drought Contingency Plans and 12 Drought Resiliency Projects.

  5. 2021

    Reclamation announced the 5 entities were selected to receive grant funding for Drought Contingency Plans and 18 entities were selected to receive grant funding for Drought Resiliency Projects.

  6. 2022

    Reclamation selected 23 entities to receive grants for Drought Resiliency Projects, and six entities to receive Drought Contingency Planning grants.

  7. 2023

    Fiscal Year 2023: Reclamation selected 36 entities to receive grants for Drought Resiliency Projects.

  8. 2024

    Reclamation announced FY24 Drought Resiliency Project funding opportunity selections in May 2024. 42 projects were selected to receive $147.9 million in BIL, IRA, and appropriated funds.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

2 CFR 200 UNIFORM ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS, COST PRINCIPLES, AND AUDIT REQUIREMENTS FOR FEDERAL AWARDS and the applicable OMB Circulars. These documents may also be obtained by contacting the Bureau of Reclamation Office listed below.

  1. Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991, Public Law 102-250, 43 U.S.C. §§2201-2214, as amended; and Section 9504(a), Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009, (Public Law 111-11), as amended.
  2. Pub. L. 117, 169.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Anyone/general public
  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • State

Additional resources