The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting applications from eligible applicants as described in Section III.A to provide training and technical assistance for small public water systems to help such systems achieve and maintain compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), and
to provide training and technical assistance for small publicly-owned wastewater systems, communities served by onsite/decentralized wastewater systems, and private well owners to improve water quality under the Clean Water Act (CWA).
Training and technical assistance activities provided to these systems, communities and private well owners should be made available nationally in rural and urban communities and to personnel of tribally-owned and operated systems.
These goals support the following objectives of EPAs Strategic Plan for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 2018:
Goal 2:
Protecting Americas Waters, Objective 2. 1:
Protect Human Health, and Objective 2. 2:
Protect and Restore Watersheds and Aquatic Ecosystems.
(The EPA Strategic Plan is available at http://www 2. epa.gov/planandbudget/strategicplan.)