The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a grant competition to fund two-year Pollution Prevention assistance agreements for projects that provide technical assistance (e.g., information, training, tools) to businesses to help them develop and adopt source reduction practices (also known as “pollution prevention” or “P2”). P2 means reducing or eliminating pollutants from entering any waste stream or otherwise being released into the environment prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal.
Donor Name:U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territory: U.S. Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/11/2022
Grant Size: $350,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
EPA anticipates the grants awarded under this announcement will provide beneficial P2 practices to businesses receiving technical assistance (information, training and tools) and will allow those businesses to reduce pollution from air, water and land affecting all communities and address pollution concerns that may disproportionately impact overburdened and vulnerable communities. EPA also views these grants as a critical component of the Justice40 initiative which is to provide a meaningful benefit to communities impacted by legacy pollution issues.
Grant application must address at least one of the following:
- Makes specific technical assistance available to businesses seeking information about source reduction opportunities, including funding for experts to provide on-site technical advice to businesses and to assist in the development of source reduction plans;
- Targets assistance to businesses for whom lack of information is an impediment to source reduction; or
- Provides training in source reduction techniques. Such training may be provided through local engineering schools or other appropriate means.
Funding Information
The maximum individual award ceiling is $350,000 for the expected two-year grant period.
Eligibility Criteria
- Authorize Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) to award grants and/or cooperative agreements to the fifty states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of the U.S.), any agency or instrumentality of a state, including colleges and universities of states, federally-recognized Indian tribes that meet the requirements and Intertribal Consortia that meet the requirement Colleges and universities must be chartered, commissioned or publicly-owned/operated by the state or the federally-recognized tribe in order to be eligible.
- Colleges and universities must include documentation within their applications, which may include, but is not limited to as:
- State constitutional reference, college/university charter, W-7 tax form that has confirmed the college or university to serve as an instrumentality of a state or a federally-recognized tribe.
Note: Local governments, private universities, for-profit organizations, nonprofit organizations, private businesses, and individuals are not eligible to apply for funding under this announcement.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
