The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a two-year competitive funding opportunity for awards to eligible entities to provide technical assistance (TA) to businesses to encourage the development and implementation of source reduction practices also known as pollution prevention or “P2”.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/17/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
EPA is requiring recipients to develop at least one P2 case study and one P2 success story during the grant period. A P2 case study should provide detailed technical information on one or two specific source reduction/P2 practices implemented by a business, and the benefits achieved, so that other P2 TA providers or interested businesses have enough technical information that they can learn from and replicate those P2 practices. A P2 case study should focus on P2 approaches that are new and not widely known or adopted and/or where the recipient believes detailed information on the project could support more widespread project replication.
P2 applications and grants may also address some P2 technical assistance outside of the industry sectors represented by the NEAs
- NEA #1: Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Processing
- NEA #2: Chemical Manufacturing, Processing and Formulation
- NEA #3: Automotive Manufacturing and Maintenance
- NEA #4: Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing and Maintenance
- NEA #5: Metal Manufacturing and Fabrication
- NEA #6: Supporting Pollution Prevention in Indian Country and Alaska Native Villages
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $9,940,000
- Award Ceiling: $700,000
Project Period
2 years
Eligibility Criteria
- Section 6605 of the PPA and applicable parts of 40 CFR Part 35, Subparts A and B authorize 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 United States, federally recognized tribes that meet the requirements, Intertribal Consortia that meet the requirements, and any agency or instrumentality of a state or federally recognized tribe, including colleges and universities. 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 indicating or confirming that they are an instrumentality of a state or a federally recognized tribe.
- EPA strongly encourages minority serving institutions (MSIs) that meet the eligibility criteria to apply for these grants. Note: Local governments, private universities, for-profit organizations, nonprofit organizations (which are not state or tribal entities), private businesses, and individuals are not eligible to apply for funding under this announcement but can partner with eligible applicants.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
