Cooperative Agreement 03D04724
- This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $652,816, was provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA #66.920). The award will fund the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet to develop a new statewide Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) plan, enhance comprehensive data collection efforts, and implement an updated online reporting and database system. Key deliverables include a new SMM plan covering...
- This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920), provides $511,502 in funding to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. Through this award, DEP will carry out several key activities to enhance Pennsylvania's post-consumer materials management, including: 1) Conducting assessments of the state's food...
- The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection received a $572,065 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920). The purpose of the award is to enhance the state's efforts to meet the objectives of the SWIFR program, which include supporting improvements to local post-consumer materials management and advancing a circular economy for materials. Key activities to be performed...
- This $551,877 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920). The award supports the Maryland Department of the Environment's efforts to enhance post-consumer materials management in the state. Key activities include: (1) Conducting an organics assessment to identify potential locations for organics recycling infrastructure; (2) Assessing existing recycling and processing...
- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $612,441 Cooperative Agreement to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920). The funding will support NCDEQ's efforts to enhance post-consumer materials management in North Carolina. Key activities include conducting a statewide materials management optimization study, advancing statewide materials management campaigns, and providing...
- This $997,199 Cooperative Agreement awarded on April 1, 2024 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920) will fund the expansion and enhancement of the City of West Monroe, Louisiana's recycling infrastructure. The grant will enable the city to expand its recycling facility, purchase new equipment like storage bins, grinders, and a baler, hire additional staff, and implement educational/marketing efforts...
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $2,944,001 Cooperative Agreement to the Town of Greenfield, MA under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920). The funding will allow Greenfield to transition its manual recycling collection system to an automated system, including the purchase of 3 automated recycling vehicles and new residential recycling carts. Additional activities include modifying the town's transfer station to increase...
- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) a $733,568 Cooperative Agreement under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920). This 3-year award will enable WDEQ to 1) update the state's recycling directory and develop a recycling app, 2) update the state's materials diversion study, 3) update the solid waste tracking database, and 4) evaluate illegal tire dumps for potential development of a state...
- This $673,004 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2, under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920), will support the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR) in enhancing the territory's post-consumer materials management infrastructure and waste reduction efforts. Key activities funded under this award include: training at least 10 DPNR employees in zero waste and recycling...
- The Boonslick Regional Planning Commission received a $1,039,440 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920). The award will fund activities to enhance the Commission's recycling infrastructure and services across 4 counties in east-central Missouri. Key initiatives include purchasing a Styrofoam compactor, truck, and trailer; constructing a new storage building and concrete...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,800,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920) will support the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG) in improving solid waste infrastructure and recycling capacity in the Lexington-Fayette disadvantaged communities. Specifically, the award will fund the purchase of a new optical sorter to recover post-consumer polypropylene from the residential waste stream and improve the quality and quantity of HDPE plastic that is baled and sent to market. The anticipated outcomes include creating new capacity for managing post-consumer materials, optimizing existing capacity for capturing and sorting HDPE, contributing to the development of end-markets for recycled commodities, demonstrating a measurable increase in waste diversion from landfills, increasing the recycling rate of polypropylene, and decreasing contamination of the recycling stream. The project performance period is from June 1, 2024, to December 31, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.8m | 8/5/24 |