California Hazard Mitigation Grant Program – California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services
Deadline: Ongoing
Emergency management agency or similar state office, federally recognized Native American tribes, local governments or communities, and nonprofits.
Hazard mitigation projects including but not limited to projects which mitigate flood and drought conditions, hazard mitigation planning, dry floodproofing of historic residential structures, structural retrofitting of existing buildings, wildfire mitigation, wind retrofit, and other mitigation construction.
Applications are accepted on a continuous basis.
Grant awards for mitigation projects are 75% of the cost of the project. Available funding varies by project type.
Small, Medium, and Large
Medium
Clean Water State Revolving Fund – California State Water Resources Control Board
Deadline: Ongoing
Cities, towns, districts, or other public bodies, nonprofits, federally recognized tribes or state tribes (must have jurisdiction over disposal of sewage, industrial wastes, or other waste).
Construction of publicly-owned treatment facilities such as wastewater treatment, local sewers, sewer interceptors, water reclamation and distribution, stormwater treatment, combined sewers, or landfill leachate treatment. Implementation of nonpoint source pollution in agriculture, forestry, urban areas, marinas, hydromodfication, and wetlands.
Applications are accepted on a continuous basis and added quarterly to the Competitive List.
Average $570 million/year. The program has significant financial assets, and is capable of financing projects through grants and loans from less than $1 million to more than $100 million.
Small, Medium, and Large
Medium to High
36 out of 109 proposals funded (2018).
Water and Waste Disposal Loan & Grant Program – U.S. Department of Agriculture
Deadline: Ongoing
Most state and local governmental entities, nonprofits, and federally recognized Native American tribes all in rural areas and towns with populations of 10,000 or less.
Acquisition, construction, or improvement of drinking water sourcing, treatment, storage, and distribution, sewer, solid waste, and storm water collection, transmission, treatment, disposal, and other activities.
Applications are accepted on a continuous basis.
Approximately $33 million in loan funding and $10 million in grant funding was available to California applicants in 2019. Award amounts are determined on tier eligibility based on the median household income of the area to be served.
Small to Medium
Medium to High
Although competitive information is unavailable for this program, the majority of projects that fulfill program requirements receive funding.
Water Recycling Funding Program Construction Funding – State Water Resources Control Board
Deadline: Ongoing
Local public agencies, nonprofits, public utilities, federally recognized and California State Native American tribes, and mutual water companies.
Construction cost of recycled water treatment, storage, pump stations, and distribution pipeline systems with the capacity of a project used within 10 years of completion of construction.
Applications are accepted on a continuous basis.
Grant awards cover 35% of eligible costs, up to $15 million per project.
Small, Medium, and Large
High
36 projects funded (2020).
Water Recycling Funding Program Planning Grant – State Water Resources Control Board
Deadline: Ongoing
Local public agencies.
Planning studies to determine the feasibility of using recycled water to offset the use of fresh/potable water from state and/or local supplies.
Applications are accepted on a continuous basis.
Grant awards cover 50% of eligible costs, up to $75,000 per project.
Small
High