Investigating Site Contamination Program (ISCP)

Awards $1 – $100,000 per recipient for public agency, closing Rolling — no fixed deadline.

In one sentence

Investigating Site Contamination Program (ISCP) awards $1 – $100,000 per recipient, open to public agency in California, accepting applications on a rolling basis.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$3,000,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$100,000
Funding Method is Loan (Advance). Amounts listed are per award based on labelled field "Estimated amount per award: $1 – $100,000"
Award floor
$1
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Rolling — no fixed deadline
Deadline type
rolling
Opens
Not stated
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Public Agency
Geography
California
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Reimbursement
Application effort
Not confirmed
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$3,000,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$100,000

Source wording: “Funding Method is Loan (Advance). Amounts listed are per award based on labelled field "Estimated amount per award: $1 – $100,000"

Who can apply?

entity

Public Agency

Source field: entity types
state

California

Source field: states
industry

Environment & Water

Source field: industries
use

Environmental remediation and site investigation - investigating site contamination

Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not stated

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Program is limited to Public Agencies. Letter of Intent not required.

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

No fixed deadlineRollingrolling deadline

Listed as "Expected award announcement: Continuous basis"

What can the money be used for?

Environmental remediation and site investigation - investigating site contamination

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Reimbursement
Recipients spend first and are reimbursed. Plan cash flow accordingly.
Matching funds
No
Labelled field states "Requires Matched Funding?: No"

Who has received this funding?

No award records yet

We hold no prior awards for this programme. That is a gap in what we have connected, not a finding that the programme has never funded anyone — check the official page, which may list past recipients.

Common questions

Every answer below is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.

How much can one applicant receive?
$1 – $100,000 per recipient. The source states: “Funding Method is Loan (Advance). Amounts listed are per award based on labelled field "Estimated amount per award: $1 – $100,000"”.
How much funding is available in total?
$3,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?
This programme accepts applications on a rolling basis and states no fixed closing date. Listed as "Expected award announcement: Continuous basis"
Who is eligible to apply?
Public Agency.
Which locations are eligible?
California.
What can the funding be used for?
Environmental remediation and site investigation - investigating site contamination, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required. Labelled field states "Requires Matched Funding?: No"
Is the money paid up front or reimbursed?
Reimbursement. Recipients spend first and claim the cost back, so the money has to be found before it is repaid.
Provenance
Source pagegrants.ca.gov
Retrieved2026-09-01
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-01

The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.