FY 2024 – FY 2025 Pollution Prevention Grant Program

Background
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a two-year competitive funding opportunity for awards to eligible entities to provide technical assistance (TA) to businesses to encourage the development and implementation of source reduction practices also known as pollution prevention or “P2”. EPA is requiring recipients to develop at least one P2 case study and one P2 success story during the grant period. A P2 case study should provide detailed technical information on one or two specific source reduction/P2 practices implemented by a business, and the benefits achieved, so that other P2 TA providers or interested businesses have enough technical information that they can learn from and replicate those P2 practices. A P2 case study should focus on P2 approaches that are new and not widely known or adopted and/or where the recipient believes detailed information on the project could support more widespread project replication.

Grant Details
The grant opportunity is announced under the authority of the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 (PPA). The priorities for P2 TA, or National Emphasis Areas (NEAs), are described in Section I.F below. Across all the industrial sector NEA, where feasible and appropriate, EPA strongly encourages applicants to emphasize TA that addresses environmental justice for disadvantaged communities (see Section I.E) and/or reduction in the use of hazardous, harmful or toxic materials or substances (toxics).

Eligibility Requirements
Entities eligible to apply for this funding opportunity include the fifty states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of the United States, federally recognized tribes and intertribal consortia, and any agency or instrumentality of a state or federally recognized tribe.

Period of Performance
The grant will be performed over a two-year period.

Grant Value
$9.94 million total estimated funding for awards under this competitive opportunity over a two-year funding period. Individual awards may be up to $700,000; issued over a two-year funding period.