Technical Assistance Directory
Technical Assistance Providers & Programs
MI Water Navigator
Rural Communities Assistance Program (RCAP)
Services
- Asset Management
- CDBG Grant Administration
- CMOM Planning
- Community Planning
- Decentralized Waste Water Treatment
- Emergency Response Plans
- Energy Audits
- Environmental Reports
- GIS Data Collection & Development
- Grant Writing
- Management & Financing
- Policies and Procedures Review
- Project Development
- Rate Analysis
- Sewer Condition Assessments
- Source Water Protection
- Training for Local Officials
- Valve Exercising Plans & Services
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Water TA
Services
- Identifying water infrastructure or water quality improvement needs
- Planning for capital improvements
- Building technical, managerial, and financial capacity
- Preparing for and developing application materials for financing a project through the State Revolving Funds (SRFs) or other EPA-supported funding opportunities:
Eligibility
- Local governments/communities
- Drinking water utilities/systems
- Wastewater utilities/systems
- Stormwater utilities/systems
- States, tribes, territories
- Non-governmental organizations (in pursuit of Clean Water State Revolving Fund [SRF] financing)
EPA WaterTA aims to assist communities with applications for federal funding, quality infrastructure, and reliable water services in partnership with drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities and local government. WaterTA cannot provide direct assistance to federal facilities or individuals/individual households.
Great Lakes Environmental Infrastructure Center (GLEIC)
Michigan Rural Water Association (MRWA)
Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC)
Environmental Protection Network (EPN)
Services
- Translating documents or regulatory processes into lay language
- Explaining and/or advising on how to navigate complicated regulatory or grant programs
- Helping to identify individual contacts at regulatory agencies
- Connecting groups with others in the EPN network for additional advice
- Sharing similar examples of situations that might provide lessons learned
