Nonpoint Source-Related Funding Opportunities

Information Resources and Centers

• Watershed Funding Information
  A hub for tools, databases and information about sources of funding to practitioners and funders that serve to protect watersheds.
  
  
• Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection (Searchable Database)
  A searchable database of financial assistance sources (grants, loans, cost-sharing) available from federal agencies to fund a variety of watershed protection projects.
  
  
• Capacity Building Resources
  This Nonpoint Source Capacity Building and Funding Workgroup Web site provides scientific, legal, outreach, planning, and engineering resources and tools.
  
  
• Financing Stormwater Management
  This site includes an annotated bibliography of existing stormwater finance materials; an archive that contains selected previously published materials concerning stormwater finance; a manual that discusses the financing options available to communities for stormwater management programs.
  
  
• Office of Wastewater Management Financial Assistance
  This page provides links to funding programs including the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and the Environmental Finance Program.
  
  
• Nonpoint Finance Project
  The Northeast-Midwest Institute and the Marine Studies Consortium have launched a Nonpoint Finance Project that seeks to identify innovative ways to finance nonpoint source pollution reduction.

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Clean Water State Revolving Fund

• Funding Nonpoint Source Activities with Clean Water State Revolving Fund (PDF) (24 pp, 266K About PDF)
  This guidance provides detailed information on the Clean Water State Revolving Fund including explanations of the funding breakdown, the program’s history and state agency contact information (November 2003, EPA 832-F-03-009).
  
  
• Cleaning Up Polluted Runoff with the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (Fact Sheet) (PDF) (4 pp, 722K About PDF)
  This fact sheet provides background information on the CWSRF (March 2003, EPA 832-F-03-0004).
  
  

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Clean Water Act Section 319 Funding

• Process for Applying for 319(h) Funds
  This page provides background information on securing 319(h) funds.
  
  
• Clean Water Act Section 319(h) Grant Funding History
  Table listing grant funding totals starting in 1990.
  
  
• Applying for and Administering CWA Section 319 Grants: A Guide for State Nonpoint Source Agencies (March 2003)
  This manual provides an overview of federal grant requirements that will guide state and territory nonpoint source agency staff when applying for and administering grants awarded under the Clean Water Act Section 319.
  
  
• Clean Water Act Section 319
  More information on Section 319 grants.

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Guides and Reports

• Nonpoint Source Mini-grants (2001) (PDF) (38 pp, 100K About PDF)
  This report describes mini-grants programs used by various states, local agencies and non-profit organizations to implement efforts to address nonpoint source pollution and to protect or restore watersheds. The report is a product of the Grants Workgroup of the State-EPA Nonpoint Source Partnership.
  
  
• Environmental Finance Program - A Guidebook of Financial Tools
  This Guidebook is intended to be a working tool to enable practitioners in the public and private sector to find the appropriate methods to pay for environmental protection efforts. The Guidebook does not explain how or where to apply for nonpoint source related grants.
  
  
• A State and Local Government Guide to Environmental Program Funding Alternatives
  This document provides an overview of traditional (nongovernmental) funding mechanisms and innovative approaches for funding environmental programs (January 1994, EPA 841-K-94-0001).