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)
Delta Institute - EPA Region 5 Environmental Finance Center
Services
- Planning and assessment: Water infrastructure project identification, planning, and set-up;
- Project development: Ensuring project readiness for SRF application(s);
- Funding and financing: Application assistance to secure state based SRF investment; Compliance and risk mitigation advisement;
- Program management support: Project maintenance, stewardship, and long-term planning; and,
- Direct Water-focused technical assistance.
Eligibility
- Anyone is eligible for TA right now; EPA is responsible for approving the request.
- Priority communities are those who have not received State Revolving Loan Fund (SRF) investment within the past three years.
- Priority communities are those living with environmental justice considerations, including legacy flooding issues. You may review EPA’s EJScreen resource tool, the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) interactive map, or consult the State of Michigan’s definitions of underserved communities.
- Projects that achieve the goals of either the Clean Water Act (i.e. natural sources/bodies of water that benefit the public) or the Safe Drinking Water Act (i.e. water specifically for human consumption, and administered by utilities/municipalities).
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
