The Advance Funding Program provides financing to complete design, engineering, permits, and environmental reviews necessary to make water infrastructure projects construction ready. It supports municipal start-up systems without funding, municipal systems with insufficient financial capacity, and disadvantaged communities in Pennsylvania, focusing on drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, and non-point source projects.
Eligible applicants include municipal start-up systems without funding sources, municipal systems lacking financial capacity, and communities identified as disadvantaged or in Environmental Justice Areas in Pennsylvania.