Financial Assistance
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Summary of financial assistance
Wisconsin provided over $7.3 billion in financial assistance to municipalities since State Fiscal Year (SFY) 1991 through two environmental financing programs:Clean Water Fund Program (CWFP), for wastewater and storm water, since 1991, including the…
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Cost and Effectiveness Certification
Federal requirement Clean Water Act amendments passed in June 2014 added a number of new federal requirements to the Clean Water Fund Program (CWFP). The last of these requirements being implemented for CWFP applicants is the requirement for Cost…
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Statutes and Administrative Codes
Street Policy Finalized The Environmental Loans’ Street Reconstruction Cost Policy Paper, which was created to consistently apply the cost eligibility requirements in chs. NR 162.04 and NR 166.07, Wis. Adm. Code, was finalized in May 2024. The…
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Environmental Loans Staff Directory
The Environmental Loans (EL) Section staff contact information is listed along with their areas of expertise. For information about a specific loan or project, contact your DNR Loan Project Manager.
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CWFP Priority Principal Forgiveness
Priority Principal Forgiveness (Priority PF) is an incentive that may be awarded in addition to general Principal Forgiveness (PF). There are three categories of Priority PF, as established in the Clean Water Fund Program (CWFP) annual Intended Use…
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User charge system and sewer use ordinance
A municipality receiving financial assistance from the Clean Water Fund Program (CWFP) must adopt and maintain a user charge system (UCS). The UCS must proportionally distribute the costs of operations and maintenance among users and must generate…
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Unsewered projects
A Clean Water Fund Program (CWFP) unsewered project is a construction of a collection system or an interceptor in an area that is undeveloped or serviced by individual systems. Providing sewer service in an unsewered community tends to create many…
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Storm water projects
Storm water carries excessive nutrients, sediments, and other pollutants from streets and parking lots to nearby streams, rivers, and lakes. A municipality can eliminate or reduce storm water runoff pollution in its community by building or…
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Equipment Replacement Fund
Every municipality that has a Wisconsin Pollution Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permit for wastewater treatment facilities, urban runoff treatment works, or structural urban best management practices (BMP) is required to properly operate and…
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Loan repayment
Term The Clean Water Fund Program (CWFP) and Safe Drinking Water Loan Program (SDWLP) typically lend money for 20 years. Thirty-year financing is available for the sewer pipe portion of eligible CWFP projects. You may request a shorter loan term.…