DEP Funding Opportunities

Indian River Lagoon Water Quality Improvement Grant

This grant tackles water quality challenges in the Indian River Lagoon by funding wastewater improvements (including septic-to-sewer conversions), stormwater management and other projects that enhance water quality and support the Indian River Lagoon Protection Program. Applications are made through the grant portal link.

Biscayne Bay Water Quality Improvement Grant

This grant addresses water quality challenges in Biscayne Bay through wastewater improvements, (including septic-to-sewer connections) stormwater management and other projects aimed at improving water quality in the bay. Applications are made through grant portal link.

Florida Keys Area of Critical State Concern Grants

This grant aims to improve water quality to protect and restore natural resources in the Florida Keys Area of Critical State Concern or the City of Key West Area of Critical State Concern. Projects may include wastewater infrastructure, stormwater and canal restoration, land acquisitions and other projects that protect water resources in the Florida Keys.

Alternative Water Supply Grants

This grant is available to local governments and nonstate entities to help communities plan for and implement water conservation, reuse and other water supply and water resource development projects.

Springs and Watershed Restoration Grant Program

This grant is available to local governments and nonstate entities for land acquisition to protect springs and for capital projects that protect the quality and quantity of water that flows from springs.    

Innovative Technology for Harmful Algal Blooms 

This grant is available to local governments and nonstate entities for projects that evaluate and implement innovative technologies and short-term solutions to combat harmful algal blooms and nutrient enrichment, restore and preserve Florida’s fresh waterbodies and implement certain water quality treatment technologies.

Nonpoint Source Management Grants

This grant is available to local governments and nonstate entities to implement eligible shovel-ready stormwater treatment projects that reduce or eliminate nonpoint source nutrient pollution in verified impaired waterbodies. Funding is available for projects that implement nonpoint source pollution best management practices, public education programs to prevent pollution and septic abandonment/connection to sewer on private property. 

Clean Water State Revolving Fund Loan (CWSRF)

Florida’s largest financial assistance program for clean water infrastructure provides low-interest loans to local governments to plan, design and build or upgrade wastewater, stormwater and nonpoint source pollution prevention projects. Certain agricultural best management practices may also qualify for funding. The loan terms include a 20-year amortization and low-interest rates.

CWSRF’s Small Community Wastewater Facility Grants are available for recipients of the Clean Water State Revolving Fund loan for the construction of wastewater facilities in municipalities with 10,000 or fewer people and per capita income levels below Florida's average. 

Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Loans 

Low-interest loans for local governments and certain private utilities to plan, design and build or upgrade drinking water systems. Principal forgiveness (grants) also may be available for disadvantaged communities.

Deepwater Horizon Funding

Funding streams were created for compensation for injury/damage resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment, civil penalties administered under the RESTORE Act and a criminal settlement administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Gulf Environmental Benefits Fund. Each of the funding streams is tied to a particular type of injury or violation specific requests for project proposals will be announced as funding becomes available.

Resilient Florida Planning Grants 

This grant supports counties and municipalities with resilience planning efforts, including further assessment of vulnerabilities of critical assets, adaptation planning and complying with the “Peril of Flood" statute, which helps to ensure coastal communities will recover faster after natural disasters. Water management districts are also eligible to receive funding through this program to assist the Florida Flood Hub for Applied Science and Innovation in addressing gaps in available data. 

Resilient Florida Implementation Grants

This grant is available to counties, municipalities and certain special districts for implementation projects that address risks of flooding or sea level rise identified in a local government vulnerability assessment or the Statewide Vulnerability Assessment.

Florida’s Coral Reef Restoration and Recovery Initiative Grants

This grant program provides funding for academic and private partnerships to implement Florida's Coral Reef Restoration and Recovery Initiative to establish, expand and maintain in-state propagation (sexual and asexual) and grow-out facilities; develop and implement strategies and site-specific restoration plans, including curriculum for a trained workforce; implement innovative technology to increase capacity and efficiencies; and reinforce and expand restoration efforts across Florida’s Coral Reef.

Coastal Partnership Initiative Grants  

Funding to protect and effectively manage Florida’s coastal resources at the local level. Florida's 35 coastal counties and all municipalities within the county boundaries are eligible if they are required to include a coastal element in their comprehensive local plan. Florida public colleges and universities, regional planning councils, national estuary programs and nonprofit groups also may apply with an eligible local government partner. CPI grants provide support for innovative, local, coastal management projects in four program areas: resilient communities, public access, working waterfronts and coastal stewardship.

State Agency and Water Management District Grants

Provides federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration funds for state agencies and water management districts for projects related to coastal resource protection. Projects must contribute to the protection, management and enhancement of Florida’s coastal resources, and they must be completed within a 12-month period. 

Clean Vessel Act (CVA) Grant

The CVA grant program is a great way to upgrade your marina's waste-handling facilities and provide customers with a quick and convenient option for proper disposal. Funding for up to 75% of eligible project costs relating to a marina's pump out waste-handling facilities, including site preparation, equipment purchase, installation, operations, maintenance, sewage hauling and educational outreach.  

Beaches Management Funding Assistance Program  

Funding for local governments to plan and implement beach restoration/nourishment projects on beaches that are critically eroded and publicly accessible and consistent with the state’s Strategic Beach Management Plan as well as for the management of inlet sand bypassing/inlet management plan implementation projects.

Hurricane Restoration Reimbursement Grant Program

Funding available for coastal property owners (multi-family, site-built, residential properties, not to exceed four units) with coastal beach erosion from either Hurricanes Ian or Nicole or both within the listed impacted counties: Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, Duval, Flagler, Indian River, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Nassau, Palm Beach, Saint Johns, Saint Lucie, Sarasota and Volusia. This grant will cover reimbursement of construction costs associated with sand placement or temporary or permanent coastal armoring. Additionally local governments in those areas can apply for grants to cover large scale nourishment projects.

Volkswagen Settlement Funding

Funding for specified diesel emission reduction projects. These projects are intended to offset excess emissions of NOx caused by the subject vehicles in order to fully mitigate the total, lifetime excess NOx emissions from the 2.0-liter and 3.0-liter vehicles. 

Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) State Grant Program

Provides funding for projects that mitigate diesel emissions from mobile sources. Eligible projects are specified in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) DERA Program Guide. 

Parks and Open Space Florida Forever Grant Program

Funding for local governments and nonprofit environmental organizations to acquire conservation lands, urban open spaces, parks and greenways.

Stan Mayfield Working Waterfronts Capital Outlay Grant Program 

Funding to commercial saltwater products or commercial saltwater wholesale dealers, retail license holders or seafood houses for the development of working waterfronts through fixed or operating capital outlay projects.

Florida Recreation Development Assistance Grant Program 

Funding for the acquisition or development of land for public outdoor recreation. Eligible participants include county governments, municipalities and other local governments entities with the responsibility for providing outdoor recreational sites and facilities for the public.

Land and Water Conservation Fund Grant Program

Grants for the acquisition or development of land for public outdoor recreation. Eligible participants include state and local governmental entities with responsibility for providing outdoor recreational sites and facilities for the public.  

Recreational Trails Grant Program

Grants for the acquisition or development of land for public outdoor recreation. Eligible participants include state and local governmental entities with responsibility for providing outdoor recreational sites and facilities for the public.

Household Hazardous Waste Collection Center Grants 

Funding to encourage the establishment of a statewide network of local household hazardous waste collection centers, to provide collection services in rural counties that do not have collection centers and to investigate unique or innovative household hazardous waste projects.

Small County Consolidated Solid Waste Grant

Funding for counties with populations less than 110,000. These grants are distributed equally among those counties. Supported activities include general solid waste management, litter prevention and control, and recycling and education programs.

Brownfield Grants

The Site-Specific Activity (SSA)/Targeted Brownfields Assessment program, authorized and funded by CERCLA Section 128(a) under the State and Tribal Response Program, is designed to help communities — especially those without EPA brownfields grants — minimize the uncertainties of contamination often associated with brownfields.

Voluntary Cleanup Tax Credits (VCTC)

Tax credits provided to encourage participants to conduct voluntary cleanup of certain dry cleaning solvent contaminated sites and brownfield sites in designated brownfield areas. Participants may be private or public entities, but they must meet the eligibility criteria established under sections 376.3078, 376.30781 and 376.82, Florida Statutes, as applicable, and they must enter into either a voluntary cleanup agreement for drycleaning solvent cleanup or a brownfield site rehabilitation agreement. Tax credit certificates are awarded by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection from an annual $35 million authorization and are valid against Florida corporate income tax. Tax credit awards in excess of $35 million for any given fiscal year are issued from the next available tax credit authorization.