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2008 Solid Waste Grant Program Request for Proposals
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10
2008 Solid Waste Management Assistance Funding Program
Announcement Type: Request for Proposals
Funding Opportunity Name: Solid Waste Management Assistance
Funding Opportunity #: EPA-R10-RCC-2008 (PDF) (19pp, 92K)
Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 66.808: Solid Waste Management Assistance
Action Dates: Proposals due on May 19, 2008
Executive Summary
The Solid Waste Management Assistance Funding Program is EPA Region 10’s competitive funding program that promotes solid waste management and pollution prevention projects. This notice announces the availability of approximately $120,000 total program funding for FY2008. The Region expects to award three to six assistance agreements either as grants or cooperative agreements to eligible applicants for amounts between $10,000 and $40,000.
Eligibility
Eligible organizations include State 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. There is no funding match requirement. Proposed projects must also identify how they will achieve measurable environmental results in one or more of the following Regional Priorities. Please see Section III for further information on eligibility requirements.
Regional Priorities
1. Reducing the generation of municipal solid waste sent to landfills, including:
- Recycling on the go – providing increased recycling opportunities in public areas
- Organic waste collection – including residential and commercial food waste collection, composting, anaerobic digestion, and/or market substitution based on biodegradability.
- Material recovery facilities – introducing technologies or techniques to increase the success in capturing usable commodities from post consumer waste recycling programs.
2. Reducing the environmental impact of new construction through green building techniques, including:
- Construction and demolition debris – fostering the increased reuse or recycling of salvaged materials.
- Market development – promoting the increased use of recycled content material in building construction
3. Reducing the toxicity of current or future waste streams, including:
- Persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic substances – addressing waste streams that pose an increased risk to human health and the environment
- Green chemistry – seeking to prevent future waste threats by integrating the precautionary principle into the creation of current products.
4. Reducing market barriers for environmentally preferable goods, including:
- Product stewardship – providing reuse and recycling opportunities for end of life consumer goods.
- Design for the environment – making front end design changes in products and packages to facilitate end of life ease of recycling or biodegradability.
- Environmentally preferable purchasing – assisting federal, state, and local governments to incorporate environmentally preferable procurement standards such as the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool or Executive Order 13423 implementation.
5. Reducing greenhouse gas production with respect to solid waste management, including:
- Waste prevention, recovery and disposal – demonstrating the energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reductions that result from making appropriate changes across the materials lifecycle. Examples include integrating solid waste related greenhouse gas reduction techniques into climate change planning for your organization, product stewardship, design for the environment, environmentally preferable purchasing, increased use of recycled content, increased recovery, and changes in disposal practices.
- Methane reduction – reducing landfill gas methane emissions through the promotion of composting or in-vessel anaerobic digestion.
- Education and outreach – programs that a) increase awareness of the greenhouse gas reductions and energy efficiency benefits of addressing waste prevention, recovery and disposal, and b) result in greenhouse gas emissions reductions
To review the complete details of this request for proposal, please see the full funding announcement (PDF) (19pp, 92K), which includes the following information:
I. Funding opportunity description
II. Award information
III. Eligibility information
IV. Application and submission information
V. Application review information
VI. Award administration information
VII. Agency contacts
Application Submission Deadline: Your organization’s Authorized Organization Representative (AOR) must submit your complete application electronically to EPA through Grants.gov (http://www.grants.gov) no later than midnight, Pacific Time, May 19, 2008.
Unit: Resources Mgmt. & State Programs Unit
Point of contact: Jeff Hunt
E-Mail: hunt.jeff@epa.gov
Phone Number: (206)553-0256
Last Updated: 04/02/2008 |
