Water Resources Directory/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Financial Assistance
Grant programs for water resources improvements:

Planning Assistance to States
(Section 22)
 * Water resource, watershed and ecosystem planning assistance ($500,000 per state)
 * Local sponsor match is 50%

Remedial Action Plans
(Section 401)
 * General assistance for RAP development and implementation
 * Local sponsor match is 50%, but may include in-kind services

Expedited Reconnaissance Study
(Section 905(b))
 * Conduct a reconnaissance study of local watershed problems to determine applicability to Corps programs ($100,000 per study)
 * Local sponsor match = none required

Beneficial Use of Dredged Material
(Section 204)
 * Protect, restore and enhance aquatic habitat using dredged material from Federal navigation projects
 * Local sponsor match is 25% (with credit for lands, easements, rights-of-way, and relocations)

Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration
(Section 206)
 * Plan, design and construct aquatic ecosystem restoration and protection projects ($5,000,000 per project)
 * Local sponsor match is 35% (with credits for lands, easements, rights-of-way, and relocations)

Restoration of Environmental Quality
(Section 1135) ($5,000,000 per project)
 * Modify Corps structures or their operations to restore environmental quality. Restoration may be away from Corps project
 * Local sponsor match is 25% (with credit for lands, easements, rights-of-way and relocations)

Flood Mitigation & Riverine Restoration
(Section 212) ($30,000,000 per project)
 * Develop flood protection projects that restore natural functions of floodplain and enhance habitat
 * Local sponsor match is 35% (with credit for lands, easements, rights-of-way and relocations)

Environmental Dredging
(Section 312)
 * Provide for the removal of contaminated bottom sediments in waterways outside Federal navigation Channels
 * Local sponsor match is 35% (with credit for lands, easements, rights-of-way and relocations)

Environmental Infrastructure
(Various authorities )
 * Support development or restoration of environmental infrastructure, including water supply, wastewater, combined sewer overflows
 * Local sponsor match is (variable).

River Basin Studies
(Section 729)
 * Study water resources needs of river basins and regions
 * Local sponsor match = none required.