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Technical Assistance for Treatment Works (Clean Water Act [CWA] Section 104(b)(8))

Program Information

Popular name

N/A

Program Number

66.446

Sub-agency

N/A

Program objective

The objective is to provide technical assistance and training to rural, small, and tribal municipalities to: (1) plan, develop, and obtain financing for Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) eligible projects; (2) protect water quality and achieve and maintain compliance with the requirements of the Clean Water Act; and (3) provide information on planning, design, construction, and operation of publicly owned treatment works and decentralized wastewater treatment systems.

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. 2022

    On September 20, 2021, EPA announced $12,000,000 in assistance to provide training and technical assistance to small, rural, and tribal publicly-owned wastewater systems and to small, rural and tribal communities served by onsite/decentralized wastewater systems.

  2. 2023

    On April 27, 2023, EPA announced approximately $41,000,000 in assistance to provide training and technical assistance to small, rural, and tribal publicly-owned wastewater systems and to small, rural and tribal communities served by onsite/decentralized wastewater systems.

    On June 27, 2023, EPA announced 18 award recipients from its competition in five priority areas: acquisition of finance and funding, protect water quality and compliance assistance, Tribal systems, decentralized systems, and lagoon systems. Applicants began assisting communities in the fall of 2023 and as of the fall of 2024, awardees have provided training and technical assistance to over 1,000 small, rural, and/or tribal communities.

  3. 2024

    On June 27, 2023, EPA announced 18 award recipients from its competition in five priority areas: acquisition of finance and funding, protect water quality and compliance assistance, Tribal systems, decentralized systems, and lagoon systems. Applicants began assisting communities in the fall of 2023 and as of the fall of 2024, awardees have provided training and technical assistance to over 1,000 small, rural, and/or tribal communities.

    On September 23, 2024, EPA announced a competitive opportunity for approximately $49,000,000 to provide training and technical assistance to small, rural, and tribal publicly-owned wastewater systems and to small, rural, and tribal communities served by onsite/decentralized wastewater systems.

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.

Grants and cooperative agreements are subject to the general grant regulations 2 CFR 200 1500 (EPA Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards); 40 CFR Part 33 (Participation by Disadvantaged Business Enterprises in United States Environmental Protection Agency Programs).

  1. Clean Water Act, Section 104(b)(3). (33 U.S.C. § 1254) as amended.

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Environmental Quality

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Local
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • Rural
  • State
  • U.S. Territories

Additional resources