Assistance program
Congressionally Mandated Projects
$2.7 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 66.202
- What it does
- To implement special Congressionally mandated spending for projects or programs identified in EPA's annual appropriations act, explanatory statements and/or committee reports incorporated by reference into the annual appropriations act, and other statutes mandating that EPA provide financial assistance agreements to Congressionally designated recipients in specified amounts for identified projects or programs. The projects may be associated with: (1) environmental requirements; (2) identifying, developing, and/or demonstrating necessary pollution control technologies and techniques to prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution; (3) evaluating the economic and social consequences of alternative environmental pollution strategies, technologies, or mechanisms for use by those in economic, social, governmental, and environmental management positions; or (4) other activities described in the applicable statute. Funding priorities are to award these assistance agreements to the designated recipients as quickly as possible in compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Who benefits
- Beneficiaries vary with the project Congress has mandated EPA to fund. For example, a Congressionally mandated project for a wastewater treatment plant or sewer system would benefit the community in which the project is constructed. A Congressionally mandated project for a training project would benefit the individuals receiving the training under the assistance agreement.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants are specified in the statute authorizing the Congressionally mandated spending item. Examples of recipients that may receive assistance under this program include local, state, intrastate, interstate, U.S. territories or possessions, public or nonprofit institutions/organizations, public/private nonprofit institutions/organizations, quasi-public nonprofit institutions/organizations, institutions of higher education, Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments, Native American Organizations.
- Authorized by
- EPA's Annual Appropriation Acts
Committed by fiscal year
* 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.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments