00E03691

Description:
This agreement provides funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to restore America's Estuaries (RAE) to develop and implement a basin-wide Great Lakes Environmental Justice Grant Program (GLEJGP) with the support of a coalition.

Activities:
The resulting GLEJGP will be advised by a working group of Great Lakes-area organizational partners, through which RAE will provide guidance to subawardees on grant writing, project design, budgeting, and federal grant applications. RAE will also administer a living technical support curriculum to support the subawardees of four project RFA cycles.

Subrecipient:
Subawards will be made through a competitive RFA process implemented by Restore America's Estuaries and recipients are not yet known. Activities to be implemented may include habitat restoration; invasive species removal or treatment; stormwater runoff and green infrastructure; and/or Great Lakes education projects.

Outcomes:
Anticipated outcomes include increased regional organization capacity to access and manage federal funding, as well as reduced environmental burdens for beneficiaries in underserved communities in the Great Lakes Basin through the implementation of subaward projects that further Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan goals.

Restore America's Estuaries

5 - ENSURE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 5.1 - ENSURE SAFE DRINKING WATER AND RELIABLE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE 2 - TAKE DECISIVE ACTION TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2.1 - PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS AT THE FEDERAL, TRIBAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LEVELS 4 - ENSURE CLEAN AND HEALTHY AIR FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 4.1 - IMPROVE AIR QUALITY AND REDUCE LOCALIZED POLLUTION AND HEALTH IMPACTS 5 - ENSURE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 5.2 - PROTECT AND RESTORE WATERBODIES AND WATERSHEDS 6 - SAFEGUARD AND REVITALIZE COMMUNITIES 6.1 - CLEAN UP AND RESTORE LAND FOR PRODUCTIVE USES AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES 6 - SAFEGUARD AND REVITALIZE COMMUNITIES 6.2 - REDUCE WASTE AND PREVENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION 6 - SAFEGUARD AND REVITALIZE COMMUNITIES 6.2 - REDUCE WASTE AND PREVENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION 6 - SAFEGUARD AND REVITALIZE COMMUNITIES 6.2 - REDUCE WASTE AND PREVENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION 2 - TAKE DECISIVE ACTION TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2.1 - PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS AT THE FEDERAL, TRIBAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LEVELS 5 - ENSURE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 5.1 - ENSURE SAFE DRINKING WATER AND RELIABLE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE 6 - SAFEGUARD AND REVITALIZE COMMUNITIES 6.2 - REDUCE WASTE AND PREVENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION 2 - TAKE DECISIVE ACTION TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2.1 - PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS AT THE FEDERAL, TRIBAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LEVELS 5 - ENSURE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 5.2 - PROTECT AND RESTORE WATERBODIES AND WATERSHEDS 5 - ENSURE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 5.2 - PROTECT AND RESTORE WATERBODIES AND WATERSHEDS 2 - TAKE DECISIVE ACTION TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL

66.469 - Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

EPA Region 5: Chicago [EPA - RO]

Erie, New York United States

County-Wide

Great Lakes Environmental Justice Grant Program (GLEJGP) (EPA-I-R5-GL2023-GLEJGP)