Deadline: 18/06/24
The US Environmental Protection Agency is accepting applications for the Source Reduction Assistance in Communities Grants that support various technical assistance methods including research, investigation, experiments, multi-media service-learning approaches, education, training, studies, and/or demonstration of innovative techniques using source reduction approaches.
These applications should create, promote, and use new and/or existing P2 tools and information, green technology solutions, innovative financing partnerships or approaches, and multi-media and multi stakeholder leadership approaches to measurably improve public health and the environment, by reducing the use of hazardous substances, reducing toxic pollutants, or supporting efficiencies in the reduction of pre-consumer resources (such as greenhouse gas emissions, plastics, water, and energy), and reducing beneficiary organization costs.
Beneficiaries can include, for example: for-profit and not for-profit businesses, non-profit organizations, cooperatives and worker-owned businesses, local municipal governments, religious organizations, universities/colleges, secondary schools, consortia, and associations, or a combination of beneficiaries. Applicants will need to select at least one of the following technical assistance methods as the primary approach for performing the grant activity: a) research, b) investigation, c) experiments, d) education, e) training, f) studies, and/or g) demonstration of innovative techniques.
Funding Information
- EPA anticipates award of up to two grants under this announcement with a total combined value of up to $242,000. The federal funding amounts for individual grant awards under this announcement can range from $70,000 to $242,000.
- The estimated project period for the award(s) resulting from this solicitation will begin in January 2025.
- Proposed project periods will be two years.
Outcomes
- The term “outcome” means 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, health-related, or programmatic in nature, but must be quantitative. They may not necessarily be achievable within an assistance agreement funding period. Projects to be funded under this announcement are expected to produce at least one, and preferably all, of the following environmental outcomes:
- 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
- Eligible applicants include Region 2 States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, any territory or possession of the United States, local governments, city or township 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 intertribal consortia.
- Consistent with the definition of Nonprofit organization at 2 CFR 200.1, the term nonprofit organization means any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization that is operated mainly for scientific, educational, service, charitable, or similar purpose in the public interest and is not organized primarily for profit; and uses net proceeds to maintain, improve, or expand the operation of the organization. The term includes tax-exempt nonprofit neighborhood and labor organizations.
- While not considered to be a nonprofit organization(s) as defined by 2 CFR 200.1, public or nonprofit Institutions of Higher Education are, nevertheless, eligible to submit applications under this NOFO.
- Hospitals operated by state, tribal, or local governments or that meet the definition of nonprofit at 2 CFR 200.1 are also eligible to apply as nonprofits or as instrumentalities of the unit of government depending on the applicable law.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Applicants deemed ineligible for funding consideration as a result of the threshold eligibility review will be notified within 15 calendar days of the ineligibility determination.
- Note that 2 CFR 200.1 specifically excludes Institutions of Higher Education from the definition of non-profit organization because they are separately defined in the regulation.
- For-profit colleges, universities, trade schools, and hospitals are ineligible.
- Nonprofit organizations exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that lobby are not eligible for EPA funding as provided in the Lobbying Disclosure Act, 2 U.S.C. 1611.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
