Three key deliverables will be produced and submitted over the course of the four-year program period, including: a priority climate action plan (PCAP), due march 1, 2024; a comprehensive climate…

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program (CFDA 66.046) provides $1,000,000 to the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (Acog) for the development of climate action plans. The key deliverables over the 4-year program period include a Priority Climate Action Plan, a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan, and a final status report. The plans will identify strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and co-pollutants, with a focus on achieving benefits for low-income and disadvantaged communities. Activities include conducting emissions inventories, quantifying reduction measures, and engaging stakeholders and the public. Acog will coordinate with the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality to strengthen the statewide greenhouse gas emissions inventory. The expected outcomes include reducing greenhouse gas and co-pollutant emissions over the lifetime of the measures, improving air quality, and creating jobs through workforce development.

Three key deliverables will be produced and submitted over the course of the four-year program period, including: a priority climate action plan (PCAP), due march 1, 2024; a comprehensive climate action plan (CCAP), due two years from the date of the award; and a status report, due at the close of the grant period. The expected outcomes include a priority climate action plan and comprehensive climate action plan that identifies: tons of pollution greenhouse gases (GHG) and CO-pollutants reduced over the lifetime of the measures; tons of pollution (greenhouse gases and CO-pollutants) reduced annually; and tons of pollution (greenhouse gases and CO-pollutants) reduced with respect to low-income and disadvantaged communities. Other expected outputs/outcomes include: the short-term environmental outputs will consist of two main outputs. The first output will be association of central oklahoma governments building an internal baseline understanding of the regional GHG emissions. The second output will consist of sharing this information with stakeholders, the public and in particular disadvantaged and environmental justice communities. From this position, association of central oklahoma governments will work on identifying potential projects that will have the greatest impact on significantly reducing greenhouse gases. This will lead US to long-term environmental outputs with the primary goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions with a focus on these projects helping disadvantaged communities. The outputs of the request projects will include: - priority climate action plan - comprehensive climate action plan - status report - a detailed and complementary GH greenhouse gas emissions inventory of the association of central oklahoma governments in coordination with the larger oklahoma department of environmental quality state greenhouse gas emissions inventory - number of emissions reduction measures identified - number of outreach meetings/annual stakeholders engaged - tons of greenhouse gas reduced annually - final report to environmental protection agency expected outcomes from the projects funded under this program may include, but are not limited to: - tons of greenhouse gas and CO-pollutants reduced over the lifetime of the measures - tons of greenhouse gas and CO-pollutants reduced in low-income and disadvantaged communities - improved internal knowledge of greenhouse gas pollution in the association of central oklahoma governments region - increased and improved community engagement - improved ambient air quality - increase jobs creation through workforce development activities:in general, activities include the development, updating, and evaluation of plans to reduce climate pollution (that is, to reduce GHG emissions and/or enhance carbon sinks). Specific activities include . . . [insert from workplan a summary list of specific activities to be conducted by the recipient]. To be strategic with resources, association of central oklahoma governments association of central oklahoma governments acog will work in close coordination with oklahoma department of environmental quality to strengthen a statewide GHG emissions inventory. If possible, association of central oklahoma governments acog does not want to duplicate efforts by creating two competing or conflicting GHG emissions inventories. Association of central oklahoma governments acog will work to enhance department of environmental quality (DEQ) emissions inventory by providing more details on emissions in the association of central oklahoma governments association of central oklahoma governments acog region, identifying additional emissions sources that might not fall within the scope of odeq emissions inventory or could otherwise supplement a statewide inventory. Acog will review and evaluate the odeq GHG emissions inventory for the OKC metropolitan statica