The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is soliciting proposals for its Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/14/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
To address hazardous waste management issues, EPA is responsible for implementing the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The RCRA program is a comprehensive effort to ensure that hazardous waste is managed safely from “cradle to grave” from the moment it is generated; while it is transported, treated, or stored; until it is finally re-used or disposed of in a safe manner.
Types of Projects EPA Will Fund Under this Grant Program
This grant program will support projects designed to develop and implement hazardous waste management programs. These programs must improve the applicant’s ability to properly identify, manage, or dispose of hazardous waste. The seven project types listed below are hazardous waste management activities that support the RCRA Subtitle C “cradle to grave” approach to managing hazardous waste and are acceptable for funding. Applicants must address at least one project type in their application:
- Hazardous Waste Identification;
- Hazardous Waste Generator Siting, Monitoring, and Compliance (Large Quantity, Small Quantity, and Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators/Very Small Quantity Generators);
- Hazardous Waste Minimization and Recycling, and the Management of Used Oil, and Universal Wastes;
- Hazardous Waste Transportation;
- Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facility Siting, Permitting, Monitoring, Corrective Action, and Enforcement;
- Land Disposal Restrictions; and
- Combustion.
Examples of Program Activities
The following activities are examples and do not limit the range of activities considered eligible under this grant program. These activities are eligible when they are performed in support of developing and implementing a tribal program to manage hazardous waste:
- Develop and implement codes, regulations, ordinances, policies, or guidance to regulate hazardous waste management activities and facilities, such as generators, transporters, and treatment, storage, and disposal facilities.
- Develop and implement hazardous waste program enforcement policies and procedures to ensure regulatory compliance, including monitoring and inspection.
- Develop legal and administrative infrastructure that are adequate to implement and maintain regulatory or non-regulatory hazardous waste management programs.
- Identify and assess hazardous waste generation and ongoing community concerns regarding the management of waste, including:
- Developing an inventory of active and inactive dump/disposal sites and assessing their contamination potential;
- Characterizing hazardous waste streams; and
- Identifying sensitive sites with potential or actual impacts on water bodies, soil, air, cultural/historic resources, threatened or endangered species, etc.
- Develop and implement tribal integrated hazardous waste management plans (including source reduction/recycling).
- Plan and implement used oil collection and other programs to reduce the improper management of hazardous waste in the community. Used oil collection programs must comply with 40 Code of Federal Regulations
- Plan and implement household hazardous waste collection events or programs that provide sustainable or long-term solutions for disposal of household hazardous waste for the community.
- Plan and implement universal waste collection events or programs that provide sustainable or long-term solutions for disposal of universal waste for the community. Universal waste programs must comply.
- Develop outreach documents and other resource materials to plan and conduct hazardous waste management seminars for tribal leaders, community members, businesses and civic organizations, etc.
- Establish qualifications for environmental management personnel relative to the tribe’s needs and plan for program implementation.
- Establish a communications plan for hazardous waste management program activities.
- Identify multi-jurisdictional opportunities for hazardous waste management, including feasibility for intergovernmental (tribal, federal, state, and local) cooperative efforts.
Outcomes
Examples of anticipated environmental outcomes from the projects that are expected to be awarded under this announcement may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Improved knowledge about the location of hazardous waste handlers/facilities, and the types of hazardous waste they manage as reflected by inventories of facilities.
- Improved ability to properly identify, manage, or dispose of hazardous waste as demonstrated by a reduction in the number of citations under tribal codes, regulations, and ordinances, and fewer reports of illegal hazardous waste disposal.
- Increased amount of household hazardous waste recycled, and/or increased use of hazardous waste reduction and re-use activities as demonstrated by increased use of household hazardous waste collection stations and re-use centers.
- Improved community awareness of proper hazardous waste and used oil management practices as demonstrated by the level of participation in household hazardous waste collection events, used oil collection programs, and/or increased purchasing of alternative, non-toxic or less hazardous products.
Outputs Examples of anticipated environmental outputs from the projects that are expected to be awarded under this announcement may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Inventory of hazardous waste handlers/facilities in Indian country;
- Codes, regulations, ordinances, policies or guidance for regulating hazardous waste;
- Facilities for improved hazardous waste management, such as secure household hazardous waste collection stations and re-use centers for used paint, wood stains, etc.;
- Number of tribal leaders and environmental staff trained or certified;
- Educational or community outreach material; and
- Reports from studies, sampling, or research.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $500,000
- Award Ceiling: $100,000
Project Period
Project performance period of one year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications will be accepted from an Indian tribal government, or an intertribal consortium or consortia. An Indian tribal government is any tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation , which is recognized by the U.S. Department of the Interior as eligible for the special services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians. A consortium is a partnership between two or more Indian tribal governments authorized by the governing bodies of those tribes to apply for and receive assistance under this program. For certain competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing description, the Agency may limit eligibility to compete to a number or subset of eligible applicants consistent with the Agency’s Assistance Agreement Competition Policy.
- Intertribal consortia are eligible to receive grants under this program only if the consortium demonstrates that all members of the consortium meet the eligibility requirements for the grant and authorize the consortium to apply for and receive assistance by submitting to EPA documentation of: (1) the existence of the partnership between Indian tribal governments, and (2) authorization of the consortium by all its members to apply for and receive the grant. Documentation can be in the form of letters signed by all member tribes, approved by-laws that contain language that specifically address the eligibility requirements and/or other forms of documentation that adequately meet the eligibility requirements.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
