Financial Assistance Programs – Grants and Loans
The State Water Board's Division of Financial Assistance administers the implementation of the Water Board's financial assistance programs, that include loan and grant funding for construction of municipal sewage and water recycling facilities, remediation for underground storage tank releases, watershed protection projects, nonpoint source pollution control projects, etc. DFA also administers the Water Recycling Program and the Operator Certification Program.
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Programs - Past Programs
Announcements
- New! $ Clean Beaches Initiative Grant Program Solicitation – Now Open for Implementation Project Concept Proposals
- Update! Application Status
- New! Fiscal Year 2012-13 Wastewater User Charge Survey
- New! Notice of a Proposed Amendment to the Policy for Implementing the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF)
- New! Infrastructure Funding Fair in Los Angeles
- New! Schedule for the California Financing Coordinating Committee (CFCC) Funding Fairs
- State Water Board and I-Bank Bond Sale of AAA Related Bonds saves State of California $10 Million
- Opportunities to Advance Sustainability in California’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program
- Updated Proposition 84 Storm Water Grant Program Schedule
General Information
- California Indian Tribal Relations
- Davis Bacon
- Small Community Wastewater Strategy
The Small Community Wastewater Strategy is referenced in a Resolution promoting strategies to assist small and/or disadvantaged communities with wastewater needs, which was adopted by the State Water Board on July 1, 2008. - U.S. EPA Petroleum Only Assessment and Cleanup Grants
- Wastewater User Charge Survey Reports
Request for Proposals and Solicitations
Upcoming RFPs and Solicitations
- No current activity
Currently Accepting Applications
- Agricultural Drainage Loan Program
- Agricultural Drainage Management Loan Program
- Cleanup and Abatement Account
- Clean Beaches Initiative Grant Program
- Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program
- Orphan Site Cleanup Fund Program
- Water Recycling Funding Program
- 2013 Clean Water Act §319(h) Non-Point Source Grant Program Solicitation -
- Small Community Wastewater Grants
- Proposition 84 Storm Water Grant Program
- 2011 Federal Clean Water Act §319 Nonpoint Source Implementation Program
- 2003 Consolidation of Watershed Protection and Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Grants
- Agricultural Water Quality Grant Program
- Proposition 50 Integrated Regional Water Management Implementation Grant Program
- Pesticide Research and Identification of Source, and Mitigation (PRISM) Grants
- Proposition 13 Phase II Nonpoint Source Pollution Control and Watershed Protection Grants
- Proposition 84 ASBS Grant Program – Full Proposals
- 2005-06 Consolidated Grants Program
- 2008 CALFED Water Quality Grant Program
- 2008 CALFED Watershed Grant Program – Implementing Watershed Plans
Funding Programs
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| Groundwater Improvement and Protection Programs | |
| Proposition 50 Integrated Regional Water Management Program | |
| Proposition 50 Groundwater Monitoring | |
| Seawater Intrusion Control Program | |
| Small Community Groundwater Grants | |
| Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund | |
| Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Programs | |
| CALFED Drinking Water Quality Program Proposition 13, Proposition 50 | |
| $ Clean Beaches Initiative Program (open for implementation projects) | |
| Coastal Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program Proposition 13, Proposition 50 | |
| Federal Clean Water Act Section 319 Nonpoint Source Implementation Program | |
| Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program Proposition 13, Proposition 40 | |
| Pesticide Research and Identification of Source, and Mitigation (PRISM) Grant Program | |
| Proposition 40 Integrated Watershed Management Program | |
| Proposition 50 Integrated Regional Water Management Program | |
| Proposition 40 Urban Storm Water Grant Program | |
| Proposition 84 Areas of Special Biological Significance (ASBS) Grant Program | |
| Proposition 84 Storm Water Program | |
| Santa Monica Bay Restoration | |
| Clean Water State Revolving Fund |
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| Wastewater Construction Programs | |
| Proposition 50 Integrated Regional Water Management Program | |
| Small Community Wastewater Grants | |
| Clean Water State Revolving Fund | |
| Water Recycling Programs | |
| Proposition 50 Integrated Regional Water Management Program | |
| Clean Water State Revolving Fund | |
| Water Recycling Loans and Grants | |
| Watershed Protection Programs | |
| CALFED Watershed Program Proposition 13, Proposition 50 | |
| Proposition 13 Watershed Protection Program | |
| Proposition 50 Integrated Regional Water Management Program | |
| Proposition 40 Integrated Watershed Management Program | |
| Lake Elsinore and San Jacinto Watershed Program | |
| Southern California Integrated Watershed Program (SCIWP) | |





