TAT Grant Program FY15

The summary for the TAT Grant Program FY15 grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Utilities Programs, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.
TAT Grant Program FY15: Funds may be used to pay expenses associated with providing technical assistance and/or training (TAT) to identify and evaluate solutions to water problems relating to source, storage, treatment, and distribution, and to waste disposal problems relating to collection, treatment, and disposal; assist applicants that have filed a preapplication with RUS in the preparation of water and/or waste disposal loan and/or grant applications; and to provide training that will improve the management, operation and maintenance of water and waste disposal facilities. Grant funds may not be used to recruit applications, duplicate current services such as those performed by a consultant in developing a project, fund political activities, pay for capital assets, purchase real estate or vehicles, improve and renovate office space or repair and maintain privately owned property, pay construction or O&M costs, and pay costs incurred prior to the effective date of grants made.
Federal Grant Title: TAT Grant Program FY15
Federal Agency Name: Utilities Programs
Grant Categories: Other
Type of Opportunity: Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number: TATFY15
Type of Funding: Grant
CFDA Numbers: 10.761
CFDA Descriptions: Technical Assistance and Training Grants
Current Application Deadline: Dec 31, 2014
Original Application Deadline: Dec 31, 2014
Posted Date: October 1st, 2014
Creation Date: Sep 30, 2014
Archive Date: Jan 30, 2015
Total Program Funding: $17,000,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award: none
Minimum Federal Grant Award: none
Expected Number of Awards: 15
Cost Sharing or Matching: No
Category Explanation
The Technical Assistance and Training (TAT) Grant Program has been established to assist communities with water or wastewater systems through free technical assistance and/or training provided by the grant recipients. Qualified private non-profit organizations will receive TAT grant funds to identify and evaluate solutions to water and waste disposal problems in rural areas, assist applicants in preparing applications for water and waste grants made at the State level offices, and improve operation and maintenance of existing water and waste disposal facilities in rural areas.
Applicants Eligible for this Grant
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility
Eligibility criteria for TAT grants is as follows:

(a) Entities eligible for grants must be
private nonprofit organizations with tax
exempt status, designated by the
Internal Revenue Service. A nonprofit
organization is defined as any
corporation, trust, association,
cooperative, or other organization that:
(1) Is operated primarily for scientific,
education, service, charitable, or similar
purposes in the public interest.
(2) Is not organized primarily for profit.
(3) Uses its net proceeds to maintain,
improve, and/or expand its operations.
(b) Entities must be legally established
and located within a state as defined in
� 1775.2.
(c) Organizations must be incorporated by December 31 of the year the application period occurs to be eligible for funds.
(d) Private businesses, Federal agencies, public bodies, and individuals are ineligible for these grants.
(e) Applicants must also have the proven ability, background, experience (as evidenced by the organization�s satisfactory completion of project(s)similar to those proposed), legal
authority, and actual capacity to provide technical assistance and/or training on a
regional basis to associations as provided in � 1775.33. To meet the requirement of actual capacity, an applicant must either:
(1) Have the necessary resources to provide technical assistance and/or training to associations in rural areas through its staff, or
(2) Be assisted by an affiliate or member organization which has such background and experience and which agrees, in writing, that it will provide the assistance, or
(3) Contract with a nonaffiliated organization for not more than 49 percent of the grant to provide the proposed assistance.
Link to Full Grant Announcement
USDA RD TAT Program Website Address
Grant Announcement Contact
Anita OBrien Loan Specialist Phone 202-690-3789
Government Address

Utilities Programs 202.690.1078
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