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Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation (WIFIA)

Program Information

Popular name

WIFIA

Program Number

66.958

Sub-agency

N/A

Program objective

To accelerate investment in our nation's water and wastewater infrastructure by providing long-term, low-cost supplemental credit assistance under customized terms to creditworthy water and wastewater projects of national and regional significance. Selected projects shall demonstrate the broad range of project types that the WIFIA program can finance including wastewater, drinking water, stormwater, and water recycling projects. Funding priorities are announced with the release of each Notice of Funding Availability.

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. 2018

    Published Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) soliciting letters of interest from prospective borrowers four weeks following appropriations. Received 43 Letters of Interest from prospective borrowers. After evaluating the Letters of Interest, WIFIA invited 12 selected prospective borrowers and projects to apply for loans. Issued five loans totaling over $1 billion.

  2. 2019

    Published Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) soliciting letters of interest from prospective borrowers and received 51 Letters of Interest from prospective borrowers. After evaluating the Letters of Interest, WIFIA invited 38 selected prospective borrowers and projects to apply for loans. The program issued seven loans during FY 2019 .

  3. 2022

    Published Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) soliciting letters of interest from prospective borrowers. The program issued 30 loans during FY 2022, providing $3.8 billion to borrowers and supporting more than $8.0 billion in water infrastructure projects.

  4. 2023

    Published Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) soliciting letters of interest from prospective borrowers. The program issued 22 loans during FY 2023, providing $3.1 billion to eligible borrowers and supporting almost $7.0 billion in water infrastructure projects

  5. 2024

    Published Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) soliciting letters of interest from prospective borrowers. The program issued 19 loans during FY 2024, providing $1.9 billion to eligible borrowers and supporting almost $4.8 billion in water infrastructure projects.

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.

See WIFIA website at: https://www.epa.gov/wifia/wifia-law-and-regulations.

  1. 33 U.S.C. § Ch. 52: Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation.