Grant priorities include:

• Supporting improvements and sustainability of drinking water infrastructure
• Supporting affordability and access to healthy drinking water for Michigan residents

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Applicants must include a Project Workplan, including project need, what will be addressed and how, and maps illustrating project work areas, and Project Cost Detail, including categories and amounts along with vendor estimates/quotes.

Additional guidance is included in the AP Grant Overview Guidance Document.

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AP grants have no matching requirements. Additional points may be awarded for demonstrated match.

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Grant funding is restricted to activities that improve consumer affordability and/or drinking water quality. Eligible activities under the grant may include:

• Develop and implement an income-based water rate structure.
• Pursue and implement water system regionalization, collaboration, or consolidation efforts that improve water quality and/or affordability for residents.
• Conduct drinking water distribution system leak detection studies and develop plans for resolving leaks in water systems that purchase water from another source.
• Develop or update project planning (e.g., engineering, design, and legal) or application documents needed to better position projects for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) funding.
• Planning costs to construct sewer laterals to connect low-income households* with failing septic systems to available public sewer.
• Planning costs to construct service lines to connect low-income households* with failing or contaminated private wells to available community water system.

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Grants will be awarded by April 1, 2024. Work must be completed by June 1, 2025.

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Applicants will be accepted until February 19, 2024 at 11:59 p.m.

Applicants are required to complete the Affordability and Planning Grants Application (EQP1063) and attach a Project Workplan and Project Cost Detail. Applications and Plans must be electronically submitted via email. If you need application information in an alternate format, email EGLE or call 800-662-9278.

Please contact grant administrators using the “Contact Information” section below for the most up-to-date information on application deadlines and forms.

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For questions and inquiries, please email:
EGLE’s Grants and Finance Division