The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking projects addressing environmental justice concerns and focusing predominantly on addressing the disproportionate and adverse human health, environmental, climate related, and other cumulative impacts, as well as the accompanying economic challenges of such impacts, that have affected and/or currently affect Tribal and indigenous populations, and other vulnerable populations such as the elderly, children, and those with pre-existing medical condition.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/14/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Objectives
- All applications must address one or more of the following objectives:
- Develop or update plans focused on encouraging environmentally sound post-consumer materials management such as source reduction (e.g., repair clinics, reuse centers), collection, storage, transportation, composting, recycling, and/or markets for recyclables;
- Develop, strengthen, and/or implement comprehensive data collection efforts that demonstrate progress towards the National Recycling Goal and Food Loss and Waste Reduction Goal;
- Establish, increase, or expand materials management infrastructure, such as facilities for reuse, recycling, or composting; collection and storage bins for recyclable or organic material, purchasing and maintaining equipment or supplies such as scales, crushers, balers, and sorting equipment, trucks, forklifts, and safety equipment);
- Establish or identify end-markets for the use of recycled materials; or
- Demonstrate an increase in the diversion recycling rate, and/or quality of materials collected
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $20,000,000
- The minimum individual award is $100,000 and the maximum individual award is $1,500,000 for the grant period, which is up to three years..
Eligible Projects
- Applications may include (but are not limited to) projects that fund:
- Developing or updating plans focused on improving post-consumer materials management;
- Planning and construction of facilities for food and organics recovery, reuse, recycling, composting or anaerobic digestion;
- Programs that provide or increase access to prevention, reuse, and recycling in areas that currently do not have access; including construction of and/or upgrades to drop-off and transfer stations (including but not limited to a hub-and-spoke model in rural communities), etc.;
- Purchasing collection or storage bins for recyclables or organic material;
- Purchasing or leasing recycling equipment or supplies for post-consumer materials management recovery efforts (e.g., crushers, balers, and sorting equipment, trucks, forklifts, safety equipment);
- Activities focused on development of end-markets for materials (e.g., working with a recycler to accept collected materials for processing);
- Activities to support increasing and improving collection of recyclable materials and/or organics and food waste, and backhaul;
Eligibility Criteria
Under this announcement, applications will be accepted from:
- Federally Recognized Tribes which include Alaskan Native Villages as defined in Public Law 92-203, and former Indian reservations in Oklahoma, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, and
- Intertribal consortia
- Intertribal consortia will be 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:
- the existence of the partnership between Indian Tribal governments, and
- authorization of the consortium by all its members to apply for and receive the grant
- Nonprofits other than intertribal consortia are not eligible entities under this solicitation but may be program beneficiaries or subrecipients provided the transactions comply with applicable regulatory policy requirements.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
