The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP or the Department) is soliciting grant proposals from Applicants who are Eligible Entities in response to this Request for Responses (RFR) for projects providing planning assistance (including Drought Planning and resiliency projects and select Firm Yield studies), PFAS planning, rate studies, and implementation assistance, such as demand management, minimization, and mitigation activities for new withdrawal impacts in local communities. The goal of this grant is to minimize and mitigate water withdrawals in Massachusetts, while providing reasonable protection of the interests listed in Chapter 21G, Section 7 of the Water Management Act, which include: fish and wildlife, public drinking water supplies, navigation, hydropower resources, water-based recreation, agriculture, reasonable conservation practices, reasonable economic development, wetland habitat, floodplains, groundwater recharge areas, waste assimilation capacity, wastewater treatment capacity, and water quality.
