Water Quality Improvement Fund, State Revolving Loan Fund (SRF), SRF AGricultural Best Management Practice (Ag BMP) Program, Stormwater Local Assistance Fund (SLAF).
RLF: The VCWRLF is a self-perpetuating loan fund, which provides low interest loans to eligible borrowers to fund projects that provide water quality benefits for their communities. Eligible project types include:
Publicly owned wastewater collection and treatment facilities, Publicly owned stormwater best management practices, Remediation of contaminated brownfield properties, Land conservation
Living shorelines, Agricultural best management practices. SLAF: The Stormwater Local Assistance Fund (SLAF) is a grant program that provides matching grants to local governments for planning, design and implementation of stormwater best management practices. WQIF: The Water Quality Improvement Fund (WQIF) is a grant program that provides grant funding for design and installation of nutrient reduction technology and wastewater conveyance infrastructure at publicly owned wastewater treatment plants in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Total Annual Funding Available through Program
Varies annually based on requests (WQIF), General Assembly Appropriated Funding (SLAF), and available EPA funding (VRF).
Average Award Size
Over $1,000,000
Eligible Applicants
Business/Small Business
Unit of Government
Other: Only Agricultural SRF funding available to individuals, the rest of the loans available to Localities only
Eligibile Areas
The answer is both no and yes. Water Quality Improvement Funds (WQIF) are only available to localities within the Chesapeake Bay drainage area. All other loans are available for the entirety of the Commonwealth.
Application Interval
WQIF is an ongoing open application period, as well as Agricultural BMP. All other Loans have defined application enrollement periods.