Assistance program
Water Storage Enhancement
$65.7 Million committed in FY2020–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Reclamation, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 15.574
- What it does
- Section 4007 of Public Law 114-322, also known as The Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act allows the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate and enter into an agreement on behalf of the United States for the design, study and construction or expansion of federally owned or State-led water storage project. The Secretary may participate in a federally owned storage project “in an amount equal to not more than 50 percent of the total cost of the federally owned storage project,†(4007(b)(2)) and may participate in a State-led storage project “in an amount equal to not more than 25 percent of the total cost of the State-led storage project†(4007(c)(1)). In return for this cost-share, “at least a proportional share of the project benefits are the Federal benefits, including water supplies dedicated to specific purposes such as environmental enhancement and wildlife refuges†(4007(c)(2)(C)). To be eligible for funding, the Secretary of the Interior must have determined the project to be feasible before January 1, 2021.
- Who benefits
- Water users, including municipal, industrial, agricultural, and environmental that benefit from the additional water storage.
- Who applies
- Any State, department, agency, or subdivision of a State, or any public agency organized pursuant to State law.
- Authorized by
- Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation [WIIN] Act (Public Law [P.L.] 114-612 [2016])
- Program site
- https://www.usbr.gov/mp/wiin-act/ ↗
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* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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