United States: Sustainable Materials Management Grants

Deadline: 1-Oct-21

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pleased to announce the Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Grants for the benefit of States or communities within EPA Region (New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and eight Indian Nations).

Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) is a systemic approach to using and reusing materials more productively over their entire life cycles. It represents a change in how the society thinks about the use of natural resources and environmental protection.

Approach

By examining how materials are used throughout their life cycle, an SMM approach seeks to:

Use materials in the most productive way with an emphasis on consuming less;
Reduce toxic chemicals and environmental impacts throughout the material life cycle;
Assure they have sufficient resources to meet today’s needs and those of the future.

Funding Information

The total estimated funding expected to be available for all awards in this competitive opportunity is $150,000, disbursed over two years.

Eligibility Criteria

The following entities are eligible to compete under this solicitation: States, local, Tribal, interstate, and intrastate government agencies and instrumentalities, and non-profit organizations that are not 501(c)(4) organizations that lobby, including non-profit educational institutions and non-profit hospitals. Individuals and for-profit organizations are not eligible. Non-profit organizations, means any corporation, trust, association, cooperative or other organization that:
- is operated primarily for scientific, educational, service, charitable or similar purposes in the public interest;
- is not organized primarily for profit; and
- uses its net proceeds to maintain, improve and/or expand its operations.
Note that the following types of organizations from the definition of “non-profit organization” because they are separately defined in the regulation:
- institutions of higher education; and
- state, local and federally recognized Tribal governments.
While not considered to be a “non-profit organization(s)”, Institutions of Higher Education and state, local and federally recognized Indian tribal governments are, nevertheless, eligible to submit applications under this RFA. Hospitals operated by state, tribal, or local governments or that meet the definition of nonprofit are also eligible to apply. For-profit colleges, universities, trade schools, and hospitals are ineligible.
Individuals and for-profit organizations are not eligible for this funding opportunity. Additionally, non-profit organizations of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible to apply. Eligible non-profit organizations must have documentation of non-profit status from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service or their state of incorporation.