Deadline: 30 April 2020
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a grant competition to fund two-year Source Reduction Assistance (SRA) agreements that support research, investigation, study, demonstration, education and training using source reduction approaches (also known as “pollution prevention” and herein referred to as “P2”). P2 means reducing or eliminating pollutants from entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal.
EPA is particularly interested in receiving applications that offer hands on practical P2 tools, information and/or innovative P2 approaches to measurably improve the public health and the surrounding environment, by reducing the use of hazardous substances, reducing toxic pollutants, supporting efficiencies in reducing resource use (e.g., water and energy), and reducing business expenditures and liability costs.
Under this competition, EPA is emphasizing the importance of grantees documenting and sharing P2 best practices identified and developed through these grants so that others can replicate these practices and outcomes. To achieve this, EPA will require grant recipients to document and report on P2 recommendations that they provide to a technical assistance beneficiary (e.g., state agencies, federally recognized tribes, inter tribal consortia, business, facility, trade association, municipal/local governments, and/or local communities that received the technical assistance) and, at a later date, report on the adopted P2 actions.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,300,000
- Award Ceiling: $200,000
Elements
Listed below are the output and outcome elements that P2 grant recipients are required to report to EPA.
- Output Measures:
- Number of case studies and other P2 documentation products describing specific P2 best practices identified, developed or implemented through the grant.
- Number of amplification activities that widely share P2 practices and documentation (i.e., training/demonstration projects, webinars, round tables, or other outreach).
- Percentage of business facilities and/or other entities that received technical assistance and that the grantee intends to follow up with (e.g., phone calls, on-site visits, letters or emails) to determine which P2 practices were implemented (should be 100%).
- Number of business facilities and/or other entities that were provided technical assistance.
- Percentage of business facilities and/or other entities that implemented at least one new P2 practice as a result of the technical assistance provided by the grantee.
- In addition, applicants may report optional project outputs, such as:
- Number of stakeholder groups involved in the process.
- Number of technical assistance assessments or visits.
- Number of recommendations made to business facilities.
- Number of P2 recommendations implemented by business facilities.
- Number of innovations and/or best practices developed.
- Number of workshops, trainings/project demonstrations and courses conducted.
- Number of businesses attending workshops, trainings and courses.
- Number of outreach materials developed (e.g., fact sheets, leaflets).
- Types of skills and abilities achieved by training participants.
- Outcome Measures:
- Reduction in pounds of hazardous material used and of hazardous substances, pollutants and contaminants released,
- Reductions in gallons of water used,
- Reductions in metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e) released, and
- The dollar savings associated with achieving reductions in hazardous material use, hazardous releases, water use, and energy use, including savings from reduced regulatory burden.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any agency or instrumentality there of exclusive to local governments (includes public institutions of higher education and hospitals, city or townships governments, independent school district governments, state controlled institutions of higher education, non-profit organizations, (other than institutions of higher education) private institutions of higher education, community-based grass roots organizations, and federally-recognized tribes and inter tribal consortia.
- Note: Individuals, private business/entrepreneurs, and nonprofit organizations 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible for funding under this announcement.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=325091