Get EPA Inspection Checklist - State Revolving Fund

Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds – Address PFAS Emerging Contaminants. The BIL provides $10 billion over five years through both the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds and direct grants to communities for addressing PFAS contamination and other emerging contaminants.

The 51 CWSRF programs function like environmental infrastructure banks by providing low interest loans to eligible recipients for water infrastructure projects. As money is paid back into the state's revolving loan fund, the state makes new loans to other recipients for high priority, water quality activities.

The Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) and the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) are low interest loan programs intended to finance public infrastructure improvements in Alabama. The programs are funded with a blend of state and federal capitalization funds.

What was the primary EPA objective in establishing the Clean Water State Revolving Fund? To empower states to proactively manage water quality.

CWSRF can finance publicly owned treatment facilities, nonpoint source projects, and estuary projects. The most common types of application we receive are for wastewater treatment plants and sewer systems. Funding recipients are government entities, tribes, or non-profit organizations responsible for these projects.

The Clean Water State Revolving Fund program provides low-interest loans to eligible entities for a wide range of wastewater and storm water projects that protect surface water and groundwater resources. Funds may also be used for projects that control non-point source water pollution.

A revolving fund is a fund or account that remains available to finance an organization's continuing operations without any fiscal year limitation, because the organization replenishes the fund by repaying money used from the account.

The 51 CWSRF programs function like environmental infrastructure banks by providing low interest loans to eligible recipients for water infrastructure projects. As money is paid back into the state's revolving loan fund, the state makes new loans to other recipients for high priority, water quality activities.