COLUMBIA, S.C. — U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development South Carolina State Director Dr. Saundra Glover today announced the availability of grants to help rural and Tribal communities recover and increase resiliency of water, wastewater, stormwater, and solid waste infrastructure damaged by presidentially declared disasters in 2022.
“The Biden-Harris Administration and USDA stand ready to help people rebuild their lives and their communities,” Glover said. “The assistance I’m announcing today will help make sure rural communities across this state, who were impacted by Hurricane Ian last year, have the resources they need to recover and increase the resiliancy of their water, wastewater, stormwater, and solid waste infrastructure. This funding is critical because we know that rural America is home to millions of people who make up America’s spirit and character.”
President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is growing the American economy from the bottom up and middle-out – from rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure, to driving more than $470 billion in private-sector manufacturing and clean-energy investments in the United States, to creating good-paying jobs and building a clean-energy economy that will combat climate change and make our communities more resilient.
USDA is making more than $8 million in grants available through the 2022 Disaster Circuit Rider Technical Assistance (CY 2022 Disaster CRTA) Grants Program.
Funds may be used to provide on-site technical assistance to:
- Support post-disaster mitigation of eligible events.
- Identify and evaluate solutions to impacted water, wastewater, stormwater and solid waste challenges.
- Help communities develop and prepare applications for water, wastewater, stormwater, and solid waste loans and grants.
- Deliver training and other resources to operators, managers and other system personnel.
- Provide certain technical assistance efforts that support the resiliency and capacity of eligible systems.
- Pay certain expenses associated with the provision of such services.
Funds may be used in the all 46 counties in South Carolina.
Applications must be between September 28, 2023 and 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on October 30, 2023 via Grants.gov.
For more information on how to apply, see page 66797 of the Sept. 28, 2023, Federal Register.
–Stephanie Bittiker, USDA
