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2021 Clean Water Act Section 319 Nonpoint Source Pollution Grant

State Water Resources Control Board · 3189

Eligibility details

Most projects must quantify pollutant load reduction to waters of the state. Projects must be part of a larger watershed plan to improve overall watershed health, unless it is a planning project.

Matching funds & resources

Source matching-funds field: 25%. Applicants may apply for a waiver of match funding if project improves or involves a disadvantaged community.

Matching funds and leveraged resources are different requirements. Read the description and reviewed rules below before determining resource commitments.

About this opportunity

The program primarily funds implementation projects, but occasionally offers grants for planning projects. Examples of projects include livestock fencing to reduce sediment and nutrient discharges, agricultural best management practices to reduce pesticide and nutrient discharges, dredging contaminated sediment from pesticide-impaired waters, habitat restoration such as installation of large woody debris and riparian revegetation, and rural road inventories and repairs to reduce sedimentation and erosion. Most awards go to projects that improve impaired waters, but a small amount of funding goes to projects that protect high-quality waters, or that address a nonpoint source pollution problem created by wildfire.

Funding geography: Projects must address a program preference, which is a specific watershed or waterbody and pollutant combination that is identified by the Regional Water Quality Control Board. Program preferences are listed in the grant guidelines.

Funding instrument: Grant. Issuing jurisdiction: California. This is not a geographic eligibility determination.