The WIFIA program accelerates investment in our nation’s

water infrastructure by providing long-term, low-cost

supplemental loans for regionally and nationally significant
projects. The WIFIA program was established by the Water
Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014.

ELIGIBILITY I M P O R TA N T P R O G R A M F E AT U R E S

Eligible borrowers
• Local, state, tribal, and federal government entities $20 $5
communities. 49%
Minimum project size for large 35
MIL MIL YEARS Y
• Partnerships and joint ventures

• Corporations and trusts

$20
• Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
$5 35
Minimum project size for small
49%
communities (population of 25,000 5 %
MIL MIL YEARS YEARS
(SRF) programs or less).

WIFIA can fund development and $20 $5 49% 35 5

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• Wastewater conveyance and treatment projects

$20 $5
• Drinking water treatment and distribution projects
49% 35 5
Maximum final maturity date from
substantial %
completion.
• Enhanced energy MIL
efficiency projects atMdrinking
IL water YEARS YEARS

and wastewater facilities

Maximum time that repayment may
$20 $5
• Desalination, aquifer recharge, and water
recycling projects 49% 35 5 %
be deferred after substantial
MIL MIL YEARS YEARS
completion of the project.
• Acquisition of property if it is integral to the project or
will mitigate the environmental impact of a project
Interest rate will be equal or
$20 $5 of eligible
• A combination 49% 35 by a common
projects secured 5 % greater to the US Treasury rate of
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Projects must be creditworthy.

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$5 and application 35 in the Federal
49%process details 5 % and Steel, and all federal cross-cutter
MIL Register and on its website.
YEARS YEARS provisions apply.

STAY I N TO U C H

WEBSITE: www.epa.gov/wifia EMAIL: wifia@epa.gov

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November 2016 EPA-830-F-16-003