The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking applications for its 2025 National Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the District of Columbia, Guam, Republic of Palau, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/24/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The Exchange Network (EN) was launched in 2002 as an inter-governmental, collaborative partnership of EPA, states, territories, and Tribes to foster better environmental management and decision making through increased access to timely, high quality environmental information. This was achieved through a standards based approach to facilitate environmental data sharing among EPA, states, Tribes, and territories. The framework adopted allows organizations to exchange data over the Internet regardless of the specific information technology used.
The EPA EN Grant Program is soliciting project applications to:
- Facilitate sharing of environmental data, especially through shared and reusable services.
- Reduce burden and avoid costs for co-regulators and the regulated community.
- Streamline data collection and exchanges to improve its timeliness for decision making.
- Increase the quality and access to environmental data through discovery, publishing, outbound and analytical services so it is more useful to environmental managers.
- Increase data and IT management capabilities needed to fully participate in the EN.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $9,500,000
- Award Ceiling: $600,000.
Grant Period
3 years.
Eligibility Criteria
Only these types of organizations may apply. Organization types are consistent with definitions at 2 CFR 200.1:
- Federally recognized Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages.
- Inter-Tribal Consortia of federally recognized Tribes.
- States.
- U.S. Territories (i.e., American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the District of Columbia, Guam, Palau, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands).
- Instrumentality of a State or Tribe (i.e., some regional air pollution control districts or public/Tribal universities)
- Entities asserting they are agencies or instrumentalities of a state must provide a letter from the appropriate state Attorney General (AG) certifying the applicant is an agency or instrumentality of the state.
- Entities asserting they are instrumentalities of a Tribe must provide a certification and supporting documentation from the Tribal council or other appropriate tribal government official certifying they are an instrumentality of the Tribe.
- EPA will not accept or review an application which does not include the required documentation.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
