66.708: Pollution Prevention Grants Program

66.708

Active

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Sept. 21, 2022

Sept. 21, 2022

The P2 grant program was enacted under the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 to: 1. Provide technical assistance (e.g., information, training and tools) to businesses/facilities on source reduction/P2 techniques to help them adopt and implement source reduction/P2 approaches that may increase the development, adoption, and market penetration of sustainable manufacturing and processing practices and greener products. 2. Identify, develop, document, and share source reduction/P2 best management practices and innovations so the information generated may inform future technical assistance and encourage practices and innovations that may be replicated by others. The technical assistance provided must use P2/source reduction techniques to reduce and/or eliminate pollution from air, water and/or land prior to performing recycling, reuse, clean up or disposal activities. The P2 grant program may fund grants and/or cooperative agreements. Funding Priorities - Fiscal Year 2021: 1. To help businesses adopt P2 techniques into day-to-day operations to reduce and/or eliminate harmful pollutants from entering the air, water or land; 2. To encourage education and/or training in P2/source reduction techniques by adopting one or more of the P2 Program's National Emphasis Areas (NEAs). NEAs will be described in anticipated grant solicitation announcements; 3. To support P2 information sharing of best management practices and innovations among States, federally-recognized tribes, local technical assistance programs, businesses, and industry in order to replicate work of others.

B - Project Grants (Discretionary)

State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals), Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments, Intertribal Consortia, U.S. Territories and possessions, U.S. Territories and possessions (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals), any agency or instrumentality of a state, including colleges and universities of states, federally-recognized tribes that meet the requirements as described in 40 CFR 35.663, and Intertribal Consortia that meet the requirements in 40 CFR 35.504. Colleges and universities must be chartered, commissioned or publicly-owned/operated by the state or the federally-recognized tribe in order to be eligible. Colleges and universities must include documentation within their applications, which may include, but is not limited to: a state constitutional reference, college/university charter, W-7 tax form that has confirmed the college or university to serve as an instrumentality of a state or a federally-recognized tribe. For certain competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing description, the Agency may limit eligibility to compete to a number or subset of eligible applicants consistent with the Agency's Assistance Agreement Competition Policy.

Eligible applicants under this program are: State agencies, State colleges and universities that are instrumentalities of the State and federally-recognized Tribes. These eligible applicants are encouraged to establish partnerships with businesses and environmental assistance providers to deliver seamless P2 assistance. Over the years, the P2 Program has found that the most successful P2 grant applicants are those that make the most efficient use of their government funding. In many cases, this has been accomplished through securing grant partnerships. As a result, those who are eligible to apply directly for P2 grant funding can also provide P2 benefits to their grant partners and grant beneficiaries, which include, but are not limited to: States, interstate, intrastate, and local agencies or organizations/universities, federally-recognized Tribes, intertribal consortia, public or private nonprofit organizations/institutions, private businesses, trade associations, student interns (within undergraduate and graduate programs), quasi public nonprofit organizations, schools and the general public.

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