Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products

EPA is updating and amending the Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and Notice of Intent (NOI). Specifically, the NOFO has been revised to reflect the following: • The deadline to submit a grant application was originally January 8, 2024, and EPA has extended the deadline until January 16, 2024. Application packages must be submitted electronically to the EPA through grants.gov (www.grants.gov) no later than January 16, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. (ET) in order to be considered for funding. • EPA is extending the date to submit an optional Notice of Intent to apply from October 27, 2023, to November 15, 2023. Please provide any new NOIs to embodiedcarbon@epa.gov. • Under the Section III.D.1., the threshold criteria for Statutory Criteria now reads, "Applications must adhere to the statutory criteria of Inflation Reduction Act Section 60112, ensuring proposed projects are designed to support the development, enhanced standardization and transparency, and/or reporting criteria for EPDs that include measurements of the embodied greenhouse gas emissions of the material or product associated with all relevant stages of production, use, and disposal, and conform with international standards, for construction materials and products. • Under Section V and Appendix C, all "points" have been changed to "weight" to reflect the scoring method. • There were also minor formatting and grammatical fixes to the document made in the following sections: o Section VI.C.2. - fixed the grammatical error under the "Note." o Appendix B - added additional letter formatting to the eligible project categories o Section V.A, Table 1, Criterion3, and Appendix C - fixed the letter formatting of the Criterion 3 -

The Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products grant program will advance the goals of EPA's Environmental Product Declarations Assistance Program as follows: Increase the robustness of greenhouse gas emissions data associated with the production, use, and disposal of construction materials and products; Assist businesses in disclosing and verifying these data via robust EPDs, as well as states, Indian tribes and non-profit organizations that assist these businesses; and Spur market demand for construction materials and products that have lower embodied greenhouse gas emissions.

To support these goals, EPA plans to award up to 40 grants and/or cooperative agreements in FY2024, including:

• Grants and/or cooperative agreements to businesses that manufacture construction materials and products for developing and verifying Environmental Product Declarations, and to States, Indian Tribes, and nonprofit organizations that will support such businesses.

• Cooperative agreements to pass-through entities that will collaborate with EPA to design and build their own processes to receive and evaluate subaward applications from businesses that manufacture construction materials and products for developing and verifying Environmental Product Declarations, and to States, Indian Tribes, and nonprofit organizations that will support such businesses. Per the Code of Federal Regulations (2 CFR 200.74), a pass-through entity is defined as a non-Federal entity that provides a subaward7 to a subrecipient to carry out part of a federal program. See Sections I.B, III.A, IV.E for more details on pass-through entities.