66.202: Congressionally Mandated Projects

66.202

Active

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Sept. 8, 2022

Sept. 8, 2022

To implement special Congressionally directed projects or programs identified in EPA's annual appropriations act, committee reports incorporated by reference into the annual appropriation act, and other statutes mandating that EPA provide financial assistance agreements to designated recipients for projects or programs. These assistance agreements support special projects earmarked by Congress for specific recipients. The projects may be associated with: (1) various environmental requirements (e.g., wastewater treatment, drinking water treatment); (2) identifying, developing, and/or demonstrating necessary pollution control technologies and techniques to prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution; or (3) evaluating the economic and social consequences of alternative environmental pollution strategies, technologies, or mechanisms for use by those in economic, social, governmental, and environmental management positions. Funding priorities are to award these assistance agreements to the designated recipients as quickly as possible within statutory and regulatory requirements.

B - Cooperative Agreements

Eligible applicants are specified in the statute authorizing the earmark. Examples of recipients that may receive assistance under this program include local, state, intrastate, interstate, U.S. territories or possessions, public or nonprofit institutions/organizations, public/private nonprofit institutions/organizations, quasi-public nonprofit institutions/organizations, institutions of higher education, Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments, Native American Organizations, and international organizations.

Beneficiaries vary with the project Congress has directed EPA to fund. For example, an earmark for a wastewater treatment plant or sewer system would benefit the community in which the project is constructed. An earmark for a training project would benefit the individuals receiving the training under the assistance agreement.

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