66.719: Center of Excellence for Chemical Alternatives Assessment

66.719

Inactive

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Oct. 21, 2016

Sept. 30, 2016

Assistance Agreement will support the creation of a Center of Excellence. The center will support projects that reduce and/or eliminate toxic chemicals from air, water and/or land. Funding Priorities for FY 2017: FY 2017 Project: Create the Center of Excellence for Chemical Alternatives Assessment to promote chemical safety and chemical substitution, by establishing and deploying expertise to identify and evaluate the safety and functionality of chemical alternatives for products and processes. FY2018 Project: The Center of Excellence will provide technical assistance, training, information exchange to advance the use of safer chemicals or processes. The center will: 1) develop and update alternatives assessment methodologies; 2) conduct alternatives assessments according to those methodologies for governments, industry, and other stakeholders; 3) promote continual improvement for alternatives assessment and 4) provide wider access to the results of such assessments.

Z - Salaries and Expenses

Section 10 of the Toxic Substances Control Act authorizes EPA to award grants and cooperative agreements to any entity for research, development, monitoring, public education, training, demonstrations, and studies. (P.L. 106-74, October 20, 1999, amended the grant authority in FIFRA 20 and TSCA 10.)

State and local governments, U.S. territories and possessions, federally recognized Indian tribal governments and intertribal consortia of federally recognized tribes, universities and colleges, and private and public nonprofit institutions.