In funding area 2 for Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) related activity, it looks like any electronic reporting expansions related to Drinking Water reporting can only be done as a partnership grant and not as an individual grant applicant.  Is that correct? 

In the FY25 EN Solicitation Notice (SN), all listed activities are restricted by applicant type. Potential project activities 1 ‘implementing data systems to manage water systems to enable electronic reporting of Tribal water system data to CMDP or SDWIS State (via Lab-to-State)’ and 2 ‘improving data quality of existing systems that are used to facilitate drinking water system data sharing with EPA’, as listed on SN page 42  and 43, is only open to Tribal applicants applying as an individual; this excludes state, territorial, intertribal consortia (which are inherently EN partnerships), instrumentalities of a state, and all EN partnership applications. Potential project activity 3 ‘modernizing existing interfacing applications or developing replacements for existing interfacing applications’ is only open to applications which are an EN partnership; this excludes all individual applicants, regardless of entity type.

Potential applicants who are interested in the above activities but do not meet the applicant specifications are encouraged to reach out to the SDWIS contact Justin Wright at wright.justin@epa.gov for more information and to discuss potential funding alternatives.