Thank you for participating in this Water With Your Lunch. A recording of the webinar is available here. Please see below for resource links and PowerPoint slides.

During this installment of the Colorado River District’s popular Water With Your Lunch series, West Slope water users will learn about ways to successfully navigate the federal funding opportunities provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. A cross-discipline team of River District staff members will present information about specific funding categories for water projects, how to put together a successful federal grant application, and how to leverage other grant opportunities to maximize funding and project impacts.

Along with a look at the various federal funding pools for water projects, River District staff will present details on the recently established Community Funding Partnership “Accelerator Grant.” This special funding opportunity is designed to support the grant-writing, feasibility, design, preliminary environmental review, benefit analysis, and engineering needed to complete federal funding applications. The deadline for this grant cycle is August 1.

POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS

Colorado River District Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Opportunities

Nate Pearson, DNR –  Federal Funding Stakeholder Resources

RESOURCE LINKS

BIL Overview  

• GOV

BIL Fast Facts 

• USBR BIL Website
• USBR Spend Plans

Funding Advice 

• OMB Guidance on BABA
• gov

CFP – Accelerator Grants 

• Colorado River District – Accelerator Grants
• Contact: Amy Moyer; amoyer@crwcd.org

CFP Program 

• Colorado River District – Community Funding Partnership
• Contact: Amy Moyer; amoyer@crwcd.org

USBR Water Conservation Field Services Program 

• USBR Water Conservation Field Services Program
• Contact: Gary McRae, gmcrae@usbr.gov  

USBR WaterSMART 

• USBR WaterSMART
• WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grant Contact: Josh German, jgerman@usbr.gov  
• WaterSMART Environmental Water Resources Projects Contact: Robin Graber, 303-445-2764, rgraber@usbr.gov 
• Small Surface Water and Groundwater Storage Projects Contact: Carrie Diroll at 303-445-2835 or cdiroll@usbr.gov 

USBR Aging infrastructure  

• Major Rehabilitation and Replacement Database
• Contact: Western Colorado Area Office – Grand Junction, Reece Carpenter, rkcarpenter@usbr.gov

NRCS PL566 

• Watershed and Flood Prevention Program
• Contact: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/co/contact/state/ 

SRF 

• CDPHE Water Quality Grants & Loans Unit
• Contacts: 
• NW Region Project Manager: Sean Oliver, oliver@state.co.us (Grand, Summit, Eagle, Routt, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Garfield, Mesa, & Delta)
• Central Region Project Manager: Jeff Zajdel, zajdel@state.co.us

 Aquatic Connectivity 

• US Forest Service Aquatic Organism Passage
• America the Beautiful Challenge
• Contact: Nathaniel Gillespie, gillespie@usda.gov  
• US Fish and Wildlife Services Fish Passage
• Contact: Michael Bailey, michael_bailey@fws.gov  
• US Army Corps of Engineers Instream Barrier Removal
• Contact: Mindy Simmons, M.Simmons@usace.army.mil
• NOAA Fisheries Fish Passage
• Contact: Melanie Gange, gange@noaa.gov   
• US Department of Energy:
• Contact: Tim Welch, welch@ee.doe.gov