Deadline: 06-Aug-21
The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking applications for its Trash Free Waters to generate applications for innovative projects focused on utilizing partnership expertise in both governmental and non-governmental organizations to prevent the trash from reaching waterways.
The project may include community-based trash removal components, but removal should not be the primary focus of the project. Projects could include:
- Fostering partnerships dedicated to establishing community-wide changes to promote prevention of trash.
- Utilizing education and incentives for organizations (e.g., businesses, schools, nonprofits) to replace unsustainable products/practices with reusable or innovative products/practices.
- Demonstrating innovative approaches to source reduction. For the purposes of this FON, source reduction is a practice that reduces, eliminates, or prevents pollution (trash or litter in the environment) at its source.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $9,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $4,000,000
Outputs
The following are potential project outputs:
- Number of individuals reached through education and outreach activities
- Number of organizations (e.g., businesses, schools, nonprofits) engaged in trash prevention outreach activities
- Resources and/or programs developed or provided to educate consumers or organizations about their roles to reduce the amount of trash generated and to prevent trash pollution.
Outcomes
- Amount of trash prevented from entering the environment (describe quantification method) One or more required:
- Water quality and/or understanding of water quality conditions are improved (report number of water segments or water bodies)
- Habitat is enhanced or restored (report in acres or linear feet)
- Consumer knowledge or understanding is improved as demonstrated by pre and post evaluations (report number of individuals with improved knowledge or understanding)
- Communities are made more resilient due to a change in practices or approaches resulting in the prevention of trash from reaching waterways (report number of communities)
- Examples of additional project outcomes:
- Organizations that have changed business practices (report number)
- Organizations that utilize or develop more sustainable products available to consumers (report number)
- Trash removed from the environment (report in pounds, cubic feet, or both)
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications will be accepted from governmental entities, including state agencies, interstate agencies, Indian tribes, local governments, institutions of higher learning (i.e., colleges and universities), and non-profit organizations (as defined at 2 CFR 200) are eligible to apply for funding under this RFA. School districts or high schools designated as one of the eligible entities above are eligible.
- For-profit organizations are not an eligible entity for this funding opportunity. Additionally, non-profit organizations described in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities as defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible to apply.
- To be eligible for this funding opportunity, projects must take place within the Gulf of Mexico watershed:
- Within the coastal zone of one of the five Gulf States or
- Within 25 miles of the coastal zone of one of the five Gulf States, or
- within the following metropolitan statistical areas (MSA): Baton Rouge, Louisiana Memphis, Tennessee-Mississippi-Arkansas St. Louis, Missouri-Illinois Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, Iowa-Illinois Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minnesota-Wisconsin Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, Arkansas Evansville, Indiana-Kentucky Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky-Indiana Cincinnati, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas Omaha-Council Bluffs, Nebraska-Iowa.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333928