Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products

The goal of the Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products grant program is to support the development, enhanced standardization and transparency, and reporting criteria for environmental product declarations (

This program will provide significant resources and tools to the construction materials and products industry and other eligible entities to support the development, enhanced standardization and transparency, and reporting criteria for environmental product declarations (EPDs) through grants and/or cooperative agreements. Embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions -- also called embodied carbon -- refers to the amount of GHG emissions associated with upstream -- extraction, production, transport, and manufacturing -- stages of a product's life. The Inflation Reduction Act also directs EPA to consider relevant use and disposal stage emissions. This program seeks to reduce embodied GHGs in the built environment through improved transparency and disclosure of embodied greenhouse gas emissions associated with construction materials and products in order to facilitate the procurement of lower embodied carbon construction materials and products throughout the United States.

Eligible entities include businesses that manufacture, remanufacture, and refurbish construction materials and products, and States, Indian Tribes, and nonprofit organizations that will support such businesses. Businesses are defined as for profit or nonprofit entities that manufacture, remanufacture, or refurbish construction materials. States include the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any agency or instrumentality thereof (including port authorities) exclusive of local governments. Indian tribes are defined as any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. Chapter 33), which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians (25 U.S.C. 450b(e)). See annually published Bureau of Indian Affairs list of Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible to Receive Services." Note that Alaskan Native Corporations are Indian tribes for the purposes of 2 CFR 200.1. Nonprofits are defined as any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization, not including IHEs, that (1) Is operated primarily for scientific, educational, service, charitable, or similar purposes in the public interest; (2) Is not organized primarily for profit; and (3) Uses net proceeds to maintain, improve, or expand the operations of the organization. Institutions of higher education (IHEs) who are non-profit organizations and/or agencies or instrumentalities of States. Private universities can demonstrate that they qualify as nonprofits based on the nature of how they are incorporated under state law or through their federal tax-exempt status. Ineligible applicants include entities who are not incorporated in the United States, for-profit firms who do not manufacture construction materials and products (e.g. consulting firms and individual consultants, management firms, architectural and engineering firms, information technology vendors, proprietary universities and trade schools), and Local governments as defined in 2 CFR 200.1. 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.

As part of the eligibility requirements under this assistance listing, partnerships under grant agreements must be documented with a signed Letter of Commitment from the partner(s) detailing the parameters of the partnership, as well as the role and responsibilities of the partner(s). Nonprofit organizations may be required to provide documentation of their organizational status upon application.

Grants and cooperative agreements are available to support recipients' allowable direct costs incident to approved grants and cooperative agreements plus allowable indirect costs, in accordance with established EPA policies and regulations.

Grants and cooperative agreements under this program will be awarded with periods of performance of up to five years.

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 in the NOFO.

Applicants, except in limited circumstances approved by the Agency, must submit all initial applications for funding through Grants.gov.

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

EPA will review and evaluate applications in accordance with the terms, conditions, and criteria stated in the NOFO. Competitions will be conducted in accordance with EPA policies/regulations for competing assistance agreements.

Deadlines will be specified in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).

Approximately 180 days after deadline for application submission.

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.