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Awards/COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

$49,146,469

Department of the Interior·Bureau of Reclamation

to NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY

WORK BEGAN2023-05-19·LATEST ACTION·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_R23AC00312_014
Award description

THE PURPOSE OF THE AWARD IS TO PROVIDE FEDERAL FUNDS TO NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT FOR THE PLANNING AND DESIGN OF THE NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM. THE WATER SYSTEMS SERVING RESIDENTS OF NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA DO NOT MEET MINIMUM HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARDS, POSE A THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY, AND ARE INADEQUATE TO SUPPLY THE WATER NEEDS OF THE RESIDENTS. FURTHER, THE ENTITIES ADMINISTERING THE RURAL AND MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEMS IN NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY COMPLYING WITH REGULATIONS PROMULGATED UNDER THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT (42 U.S.C. 300F ET SEQ.). CONGRESS PASSED PUBLIC LAW 107-331 TO ADDRESS THE WATER SUPPLY ISSUE IN NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA.THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO PLAN, DESIGN, AND CONSTRUCT THE NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM TO ENSURE A SAFE AND ADEQUATE RURAL, MUNICIPAL, AND INDUSTRIAL WATER SUPPLY FOR RESIDENTS OF CHOUTEAU, GLACIER, HILL, LIBERTY, PONDERA, TETON, AND TOOLE COUNTIES, MONTANA.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Plan, design, and construct a regional water system to provide safe drinking water to rural Montana counties.

Sub-sectors
water-infrastructurerural-water-systemssafe-drinking-water
Why this matters

Addresses critical public health gap in rural Montana where existing systems fail Safe Drinking Water Act compliance and pose health risks.

Supply-chain signal

Will drive demand for water infrastructure engineering, construction materials, and treatment equipment suppliers serving rural Montana.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002267.

Period of performance
Start
2023-05-19
End
2026-12-31
Status
activein 226 days
Sources

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