Emergency Grants
Each Legislature authorizes $100,000 for TSEP to provide grants for emergency projects. The emergency grants can be awarded by the Department at any time between, and during, legislative sessions to remedy conditions that if allowed to continue until legislative approval could be obtained would endanger the public health or safety and expose the applicant to substantial financial risk.
What is an emergency?
- An “emergency” means the imminent threat or actual occurrence of a disaster causing immediate peril to life, property, or the environment, which with timely action can be averted or minimized.
- The situation if allowed to continue until legislative approval could be obtained, would significantly endanger the public health or safety and expose the applicant to substantial financial risk.
- The applicant has contributed as much financial and other resources to the problem as is possible, and exhausted all other means of funding the emergency project.
Application Process
- Usually limited to $30,000 per project.
- The use of TSEP funds, and the expenses that will be eligible for reimbursement, will be determined on a case by case basis.
- No application form is required.
- Contact Richard Knatterud, TSEP Engineer, at 841-2784 if you think you have an emergency that TSEP could help fund.
Ineligible Projects
- Projects will not be funded if reasonable management practices can be implemented that will forestall the risks to health or safety until legislative approval can be obtained.
- Preventive maintenance, or backup system to an existing system component, will not be funded.
