This funding opportunity is intended to generate applications for innovative projects focused on preventing micro/nanoplastics from reaching waterways and removing microplastics from waterways as well as to make information on microplastics more accessible.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/08/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Focus Areas
- Projects must include at least one of the following focus areas:
- Support the development and demonstration of management practices and technologies to remove microplastics (including microfibers) from waterways
- Demonstrate innovative approaches to prevent microplastics from reaching waterways through source reduction. For the purposes of this FON, source reduction is any practice that reduces or eliminates sources of microplastics (wastewater treatment, reuse and refill systems, sustainable materials, and waste management technology)
- Improve accessibility and availability of microplastics research including the sources, transport, fate, concentrations, impacts, and remediation of microplastic pollution. Identify data gaps and work to improve coordination among researchers.
- All projects must develop and disseminate educational resources concerning micro/nanoplastics to aid in informed decision making for consumers, communities, businesses, cooperatives,and/or state and local governments.
Funding Information
EPA expects to provide approximately $5 million for eight to twelve projects in this funding opportunity. EPA expect awards for this funding opportunity to range from $500,000 to $750,000. Proposed project periods may be up to three years. The maximum amount of federal funds that will be awarded for any project in this funding opportunity is $750,000.
Eligible Activities
- Projects submitted must align with the Clean Water Act 104(b)(3), which authorizes the award of grants to conduct and promote the coordination and acceleration of research, investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to the causes, effects, extent, prevention, reduction, and elimination of pollution.
- Demonstration projects must involve new or experimental technologies, methods, or approaches, where the results of the project will be disseminated so that others can benefit from the knowledge gained in the demonstration project. The applicant must clearly explain in the proposal how the technologies, methods, or approaches used are new or experimental and how the project otherwise meets the requirements of a demonstration as described in this NOFO. If your project uses technologies, methods or approaches that have been used previously in other geographic areas and/or other situations, then your proposal must include an explanation as to how your demonstration project is different from such prior projects. The applicant must also explain what will be learned from the demonstration project.
Eligibility Criteria
- In accordance with Assistance Listing 66.475, governmental entities, including state agencies, interstate agencies, Indian tribes, local governments, institutions of higher learning, and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply for funding under this NOFO. School districts or high schools designated as one of the eligible entities above are eligible.
- Nonprofit organizations that are not exempt from taxation under section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code must submit other forms of documentation of nonprofit status such as certificates of incorporation as nonprofit under state or tribal law.
- For-profit organizations are not eligible entities for this funding opportunity.
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