Deadline: 30-Apr-21
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10 (EPA), is issuing a Request for Applications (RFA) from eligible entities to improve community health, resilience, and/or sustainability through pollution prevention and/or sustainable materials management implementation.
The Region 10 Healthy, Resilient and Sustainable Communities grant program will support Region 10 communities as they develop and implement pollution prevention and/or sustainable materials management systems that help make their communities safer, healthier, and more resilient.
Pollution prevention (P2) and Sustainable materials management (SMM) are powerful tools that can build community health including:
- Reducing the use, release, and exposure to toxic chemicals.
- Implementing life cycle approaches to reduce the health and environmental impacts of materials use.
- Employing upstream solutions that reduce the need and cost of environmental cleanup and pollution management.
P2 and SMM implementation also help to build community resilience and sustainability including:
- Reducing the demand for virgin, raw materials.
- Reducing the demand for and cost of utility services such power, water, and wastewater treatment through energy and water efficiency.
- Increasing the efficiency of materials use and reuse.
- Creating opportunities for in-process recycling and the innovative reuse of materials.
- Fostering systems in which materials, like edible food and building materials, are used for their best and highest purpose.
Funding Information
- EPA Region 10 anticipates awarding approximately $120,000 under this announcement.
- Awards will be issued and managed through EPA’s Region 10 Office.
- EPA anticipates awarding 2-4 grants, ranging from $30,000 to $60,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include Region 10 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), nonprofit private institutions of higher education, community-based grassroots organizations, and federally recognized tribes and intertribal consortia.
- Eligible projects must take place within Region 10, which includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=331262