Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) Program

This program has been terminated. The purpose of this cooperative agreement program is to support and/or create model state, local, and/or tribal activities that lead to measurable environmental or public health results in communities disproportiona

This cooperative agreement program supports and/or creates model state activities that lead to measurable environmental or public health results in communities disproportionately burdened by environmental harms and risks.

(1) a partnership between a state (includes the District of Columbia) and a community-based non-profit organization (CBO). The term State encompasses instrumentalities of state government as provided in 2 CFR 200.1 with the exception of state institutions of higher education; (2) a partnership between a federally recognized tribal government and a CBO; (3) a partnership between a local government (as defined by 2 CFR 200.64 - includes cities, towns, municipalities, and counties, public housing authorities and councils of government) and a CBO; (4) Puerto Rico; (5) U.S. Territories - includes territorial and local governmental entities in American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands; (6) Freely Associated States (FAS) - includes state and local governmental entities in the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Palau; (7) Tribal governments in remote areas and; (8) State recognized tribal governments. The following entities are INELIGIBLE: 1) Public and Private Institutions of Higher Education, including state and tribal colleges and universities even if they are instrumentalities of state or tribal government; 2) Hospitals and medical facilities even if they are instrumentalities of state, tribal or local governments; 3) Non-profit organizations even if they are CBOs;4) For-profit businesses; 5) International organizations; 6) Faith-based organizations and local houses of worship; 7) Civic and Philanthropic organizations; 8) Individuals. For certain competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing, the Agency may limit eligibility to compete to a number or subset of eligible applicants consistent with the Agency's Assistance Agreement Competition Policy.

(1) a partnership between a state (includes the District of Columbia) and a community-based non-profit organization (CBO). The term State encompasses instrumentalities of state government as provided in 2 CFR 200.1 with the exception of state institutions of higher education; (2) a partnership between a federally recognized tribal government and a CBO; (3) a partnership between a local government (as defined by 2 CFR 200.64 - includes cities, towns, municipalities, and counties, public housing authorities and councils of government) and a CBO; (4) Puerto Rico; (5) U.S. Territories - includes territorial and local governmental entities in American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands; (6) Freely Associated States (FAS) - includes state and local governmental entities in the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Palau; (7) Tribal governments in remote areas and; (8) State recognized tribal governments.

The purpose of this cooperative agreement program is to support and/or create model state, local, and/or tribal activities that lead to measurable environmental or public health results in communities disproportionately burdened by environmental harms and risks. These models should leverage or utilize existing resources or assets of state, tribal, local, and territorial agencies to develop key tools and processes that integrate environmental justice considerations into all levels of government and government programs. The EJG2G program goals are to (1) achieve measurable and meaningful environmental and/or public health results in communities; (2) build broad and robust, results-oriented partnerships, particularly with community-based nonprofit organizations (CBO) within disproportionately impacted areas; (3) pilot activities in specific communities that create transferable models, which can be expanded or replicated in other geographic areas and; (4) strengthen the development and implementation of meaningful approaches to achieve environmental justice. Projects should leverage: (1) state and local data; (2) state and local leadership; (3) state and local results; (4) relationships between delegated programs (i.e., federal environmental programs delegated to and carried out by states, tribes, local government, and US territories) and state, tribal, local, and territorial environmental justice policies, and (5) state, tribal, local, and territorial government targeting of disproportionately burdened areas. Assistance agreement awards under this program may involve or relate to geospatial information. Further information regarding geospatial information may be obtained by viewing the following website: Geospatial Resources at EPA (https://www.epa.gov/geospatial).This program makes Federal awards on a discretionary basis. A discretionary award means an award in which the Federal awarding agency, in keeping with specific statutory authority that enables the agency to exercise judgement ("discretion"), selects the recipient and/or the amount of Federal funding awarded through a competitive process or based on merit of proposals. A discretionary award may be selected on a non-competitive basis, as appropriate. For further information, please contact the Headquarters or regional office.

All cooperative agreements will be awarded for a 3-year project period.

This program is eligible for coverage under E.O. 12372, "Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs," when a proposed financial assistance Federal financial assistance involves land use planning. EPA financial assistance programs and activities subject to intergovernmental review that are subject to review under State single point of contact procedures are identified at https://www.epa.gov/grants/epa-financial-assistance-programs-subject-executive-order-12372-and-section-204. Applicants for programs or activities subject to Intergovernmental Review that are not subject to State single point of contact review must provide directly affected State, areawide, regional, and local entities at least 60 days to review their application following notification by EPA that the application has been selected for funding as provided by 40 CFR 29.8(a) and (c). Regarding pre-application assistance with respect to competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing, EPA will generally specify the nature of the pre-application assistance, if any, that will be available to applicants in the competitive announcement. For additional information, contact the individual(s) listed as Agency Contacts in the competitive announcement.

The evaluation and selection criteria for competitive awards under this assistance listing will be described in the competitive announcement.

For competitive awards, EPA will review and evaluate applications, proposals, and/or submissions in accordance with the terms, conditions, and criteria stated in the competitive announcement. Competitions will be conducted in accordance with EPA policies/regulations for competing assistance agreements.

For competitive awards, deadlines will be specified in the NOFO.

Approximately 150 days after the application submission due date.

Generally, EPA incrementally funds grants and cooperative agreements for training, research, surveys, studies, and investigations. Approval of subsequent funding increments is dependent on satisfactory project progress, continued relevance of the project to EPA's priorities, and availability of funds.

Assistance agreement competition-related disputes will be resolved in accordance with the dispute resolution procedures published in 70 FR (Federal Register) 3629, 3630 (January 26, 2005). Copies of these procedures may also be found at: https://www.epa.gov/grants/grant-competition-dispute-resolution-procedures. Disputes relating to matters other than the competitive selection of recipients will be resolved under 2 CFR 1500 Subpart E, as applicable.