Orphan Site Cleanup Fund
- Award ceiling
- up to $1,000,000
- Closes
- Not stated
- Last verified
- 2026-09-07
Awards up to $1,000,000 per recipient for business, individual.
In one sentence
Orphan Site Cleanup Fund awards up to $1,000,000 per recipient, open to business, individual in CA.
- Program pool (total)
- $1,000,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $1,000,000The labelled field states "Estimated amount per award: $1 – $1,000,000". The funding method notes state "Reimbursement of costs are limited to the scope and budget approved by the Orphan Site Cleanup Fund."
- Award floor
- $1
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Not stated
- Deadline type
- Not stated
- Opens
- Not stated
- Status
- Open
- Eligible entities
- Business · Individual
- Geography
- CA
- Matching funds
- No
- Disbursement
- Reimbursement
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- Environmental remediation · Corrective actions at orphan sites
- 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.
Source wording: “The labelled field states "Estimated amount per award: $1 – $1,000,000". The funding method notes state "Reimbursement of costs are limited to the scope and budget approved by the Orphan Site Cleanup Fund."”
Who can apply?
Not stated
Source field: applicant size limitThe page states eligible applicants are "Business | Individual" but does not specify entity types further or geographic restrictions beyond the State Water Resources Control Board's jurisdiction.
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
The labelled field states "Expected award announcement: Ongoing"
What can the money be used for?
2 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
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?
3 fieldsEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- ReimbursementRecipients spend first and are reimbursed. Plan cash flow accordingly.
- Matching funds
- NoThe labelled field states "Requires Matched Funding?: No"
What comparable notices state
91 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Environment & Water, 91 of 212 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$256,000
- Median$750,000
- 75th percentile$3,000,000
A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.
Common questions
7 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- Up to $1,000,000 per recipient. The source states: “The labelled field states "Estimated amount per award: $1 – $1,000,000". The funding method notes state "Reimbursement of costs are limited to the scope and budget approved by the Orphan Site Cleanup Fund."”.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $1,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Business, Individual.
- Which locations are eligible?
- CA.
- What can the funding be used for?
- Environmental remediation, Corrective actions at orphan sites, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- No. The source states that no matching funds are required. The 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.
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