66.721: Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products

66.721

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Sept. 7, 2023

Sept. 7, 2023

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 (EPDs) which include the measurement of embodied greenhouse gas emissions associated with all relevant stages of production, use, and disposal, in conformance with international standards. In support of this goal, EPA will provide grants to businesses that manufacture, remanufacture, and refurbish construction materials and products for developing and verifying environmental product declarations, and to States, Indian Tribes, and nonprofit organizations that will support such businesses. Under this program, EPA plans to award in FY24 up to 40 grants and/or cooperative agreements, some potentially as pass-through grants to eligible entities. Per the Code of Federal Regulations (2 CFR 200.74), a pass-through entity is defined as a non-Federal entity that provides a subaward to a subrecipient to carry out part of a federal program. This grant program will lead to progress towards achieving the objectives of Section 60112 of the Inflation Reduction Act.

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.

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