This grant program will provide funds to local governments to increase the resilience of publicly owned treatment works to a natural hazard or cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Grants may cover planning, designing, or constructing projects and can focus on topics including water conservation, efficiency, green infrastructure, but will have to provide documentation of risks (and demonstration of project design) such as Hazard Mitigation Plan or Climate Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plans. Small or disadvantaged communities are eligible for cost share up to 90 percent.
IIJA called for policy changes but no new funding was attached.