Deadline: 14-Jul-23
The Environmental Protection Agency is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes to support projects designed to develop and implement hazardous waste management programs.
The RCRA Subtitle C program is a comprehensive effort to ensure that hazardous waste is managed safely from “cradle to grave” from the moment it is generated; while it is transported, treated, or stored; until it is finally re-used or disposed of in a safe manner.
These programs must improve the applicant’s ability to properly identify, manage, or dispose of hazardous waste.
Types of Projects EPA Will Fund Under this Grant Program
- This grant program will support projects designed to develop and implement hazardous waste management programs. These programs must improve the applicant’s ability to properly identify, manage, or dispose of hazardous waste. The seven project types listed are hazardous waste management activities that support the RCRA Subtitle C “cradle to grave” approach to managing hazardous waste and are acceptable for funding. Applicants must address at least one project type in their application:
- Hazardous Waste Identification;
- Hazardous Waste Generator Siting, Monitoring, and Compliance (Large Quantity, Small Quantity, and Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators/Very Small Quantity Generators);
- Hazardous Waste Minimization and Recycling, and the Management of Used Oil, and Universal Wastes;
- Hazardous Waste Transportation;
- Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facility Siting, Permitting, Monitoring, Corrective Action, and Enforcement;
- Land Disposal Restrictions; and
- Combustion.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $500,000
- Award Ceiling: $100,000.
Examples of Program Activities
- The following activities are examples and do not limit the range of activities considered eligible under this grant program. These activities are eligible when they are performed in support of developing and implementing a tribal program to manage hazardous waste:
- Develop and implement codes, regulations, ordinances, policies, or guidance to regulate hazardous waste management activities and facilities, such as generators, transporters, and treatment, storage, and disposal facilities.
- Develop and implement hazardous waste program enforcement policies and procedures to ensure regulatory compliance, including monitoring and inspection.
- Develop legal and administrative infrastructure that are adequate to implement and maintain regulatory or non-regulatory hazardous waste management programs.
- Identify and assess hazardous waste generation and ongoing community concerns regarding the management of waste, including:
- Developing an inventory of active and inactive dump/disposal sites and assessing their contamination potential;
- Characterizing hazardous waste streams; and
- Identifying sensitive sites with potential or actual impacts on water bodies, soil, air, cultural/historic resources, threatened or endangered species, etc.
- Develop and implement tribal integrated hazardous waste management plans (including source reduction/recycling).
- Plan and implement used oil collection and other programs to reduce the improper management of hazardous waste in the community. Used oil collection programs must comply with 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 279.
- Plan and implement household hazardous waste collection events or programs that provide sustainable or long-term solutions for disposal of household hazardous waste for the community.
- Plan and implement universal waste collection events or programs that provide sustainable or long-term solutions for disposal of universal waste for the community. Universal waste programs must comply with 40 CFR Part 273.
- Develop outreach documents and other resource materials to plan and conduct hazardous waste management seminars for tribal leaders, community members, businesses and civic organizations, etc.
- Establish qualifications for environmental management personnel relative to the tribe’s needs and plan for program implementation.
- Establish a communications plan for hazardous waste management program activities.
- Identify multi-jurisdictional opportunities for hazardous waste management, including feasibility for intergovernmental (tribal, federal, state, and local) cooperative efforts.
Measuring Environmental Results: Anticipated Outcomes/Outputs
- Pursuant to EPA Order 5700.7A1, Environmental Results under EPA Assistance Agreements, EPA requires that all grant applicants and recipients adequately address environmental outcomes and outputs. Outcomes and outputs differ both in their nature and in how they are measured. Applicants must discuss environmental outcomes and outputs in their proposed work plan.
- Outcomes. The term “outcomes” refers to the result, effect, or consequence that will occur from carrying out an environmental program or activity that is related to an environmental or programmatic goal or objective. Outcomes may be environmental, behavioral, healthrelated, or programmatic in nature, must be quantitative, and may not necessarily be achievable during the project period.
- Outputs. The term “outputs” refers to an environmental activity, effort, or associated work products related to an environmental goal or objective, that will be produced or provided over a period of time or by a specified date. Outputs may be quantitative or qualitative but must be measurable during the project period.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications will be accepted from
- an Indian tribal government, or
- an intertribal consortium or consortia. An Indian tribal government is any tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation (as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 43 U.S.C. 1601, et seq.), which is recognized by the U.S. Department of the Interior as eligible for the special services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.
- A consortium is a partnership between two or more Indian tribal governments authorized by the governing bodies of those tribes to apply for and receive assistance under this program. For certain competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing description, the Agency may limit eligibility to compete to a number or subset of eligible applicants consistent with the Agency’s Assistance Agreement Competition Policy.
- Intertribal consortia are 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. Documentation can be in the form of letters signed by all member tribes, approved by-laws that contain language that specifically address the eligibility requirements and/or other forms of documentation that adequately meet the eligibility requirements.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.