The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is offering the Technical Assistance and Training Grant to improve water and waste disposal systems and facility management.

(a) Entities eligible for grants must be
private nonprofit organizations with tax
exempt status, designated by the
Internal Revenue Service. A nonprofit
organization is defined as any
corporation, trust, association,
cooperative, or other organization that:
(1) Is operated primarily for scientific,
education, service, charitable, or similar
purposes in the public interest.
(2) Is not organized primarily for profit.
(3) Uses its net proceeds to maintain,
improve, and/or expand its operations.
(b) Entities must be legally established
and located within a state as defined in
§ 1775.2.
(c) Organizations must be incorporated by December 31 of the year the application period occurs to be eligible for funds.
(d) Private businesses, Federal agencies, public bodies, and individuals are ineligible for these grants.
(e) Applicants must also have the proven ability, background, experience (as evidenced by the organization’s satisfactory completion of project(s)similar to those proposed), legal
authority, and actual capacity to provide technical assistance and/or training on a
regional basis to associations as provided in § 1775.33. To meet the requirement of actual capacity, an applicant must either:
(1) Have the necessary resources to provide technical assistance and/or training to associations in rural areas through its staff, or
(2) Be assisted by an affiliate or member organization which has such background and experience and which agrees, in writing, that it will provide the assistance, or
(3) Contract with a nonaffiliated organization for not more than 49 percent of the grant to provide the proposed assistance.