Block Grant A25AV00902

This Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Administration and Resource Management - Funding Office provides $177,000 to the State of Utah Department of Environmental Quality to enhance IT and data management capabilities that facilitate electronic collection, reporting, exchange, sharing and integration of environmental protection data. Under the award, the State of Utah will develop electronic reports and surveys for Utah's solid waste facilities, and a...

The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), in partnership with the Michigan Sustainable Business Forum (MISBF) and other regional/national partners, received a $683,836 Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Pollution Prevention Grants Program (CFDA 66.708). The project aims to provide technical assistance to address environmental justice concerns and improve human health/environment in disadvantaged communities. Key activities include developing an implementation...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202), aims to evaluate the feasibility, cost, and acceptability of establishing a hazardous waste processing and disposal facility in Alaska. The primary objectives are to: 1) identify in-state treatment and disposal options suitable for implementation in Alaska; 2) evaluate the identified alternatives from the perspectives of constructability,...

This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Pollution Prevention Grants Program (CFDA 66.708), will fund Central Michigan University (CMU) and its partner Michigan Sustainable Business Forum (MISBF) to provide technical assistance (TA), training, and community engagement to businesses in Michigan's food and beverage manufacturing and processing sector. The $287,645 award from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026 will support the implementation...

This $857,744 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Pollution Prevention Grants Program (CFDA 66.708) will provide technical assistance to the critical mineral mining industry to address environmental justice concerns and improve human health and the environment in disadvantaged communities. The project aims to promote pollution prevention in mining operations, with a focus on reducing air pollution and managing mining waste. Key activities include hosting three...

This $1,499,999 Cooperative Agreement award from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Geographic Programs – Gulf of Mexico Program (CFDA 66.475) supports the University of Houston's efforts to enhance and protect the water quality of the Gulf of Mexico. The key activities under this 3-year award include: Demonstrating a new floating aquatic plant system that can reliably remove 50-60% of excess nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus from stormwater runoff. The system will use floating...

The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) was awarded a $133,472 Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951). This project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and encourage environmentally-beneficial behaviors in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The funding will enable UVI to educate college students and...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement to The Fortune Society, Inc. (doing business as The Fortune Academy) under the EPA's Brownfields Job Training program (CFDA 66.815). This 5-year project will provide training to recruit, train, and place unemployed and underemployed residents of New York City in environmental careers with skills needed to conduct remediation work at solid and hazardous waste-contaminated sites. The training program will...

This $1,074,619 cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) Program (CFDA 66.312) funds the Port of New Orleans' Louisiana International Terminal (LIT) Sustainability Management Plan (SMP) project. The project aims to directly benefit the overburdened community of Violet, Louisiana and the larger St. Bernard Parish through a range of activities, including quarterly engagement with community-based...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 awarded the University of Connecticut a $133,333 Project Grant under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025. The grant will fund the University of Connecticut to implement a project to design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices focused on stormwater management and green infrastructure in Hartford, Bloomfield, and Windham, Connecticut. Key deliverables include...