Technical Assistance and Training Grant

The summary for the Technical Assistance and Training Grant Federal Grant is detailed below. It contains information such as the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number, the government agency offering the grant, funding award amounts, and important deadlines. 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 in the Grant Announcement Contact section.

Federal Grant Title:	Technical Assistance and Training Grant
CFDA Number:	10.761
CFDA Description:	Technical Assistance and Training Grants
Federal Agency Name:	Utilities Programs
Category of Funding Activity:	Other Community Development Environment
Category Explanation:	The objectives of the Technical Assistance and Training Grants are 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 l
Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number:	USDA-GRANTS-TAT-092906-001
Document Type:	Modification to Previous Grants Notice
Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
Posted Date:	Oct 01, 2006
Creation Date:	Oct 11, 2006
Original Closing Date for Applications:	Dec 31, 2006
Current Closing Date for Applications:	Information not provided
Archive Date:	Jan 30, 2007
Expected Number of Awards:	14
Estimated Total Program Funding:	$17,000,000
Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	Information not provided
Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

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 organizations 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.
Grant Description: 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.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: Technical Assistance and Training Grants
http://www.usda.gov/rus/water/tatg.htm
Grant Announcement Contact: Anita OBrien
Loan Specialist
Phone 202-690-3789 anita.obrien@wdc.usda.gov Government Email Address
Similar Government Grants: • ARRA TAT Grant; • TAT Water Resource Study Grant; • Technical Assistance and Training Grant Program - Water Resource Studies