953A0028

**Description:** The purpose of this award is to provide funding under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

The recipient will implement greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction programs, policies, projects, and measures identified in the Commonwealth's Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) developed under their Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) planning grant.

Activities conducted through this grant will benefit all residents and visitors to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania through four main objectives:

- Implementation of ambitious measures that will achieve significant cumulative GHG reductions by 2030 and beyond;
- Pursuit of measures that will achieve substantial community benefits, particularly in low-income and disadvantaged communities;
- Complementing other funding sources to maximize these GHG reductions and community benefits; and,
- Pursuit of innovative policies and programs that are replicable and can be 'scaled up' across multiple jurisdictions.

**Activities:** Pennsylvania will conduct its own subaward competition to re-equip any industrial or manufacturing facility with equipment designed to reduce GHG emissions.

Specific activities of the subawardees will include:

- Electrification technologies such as low- or zero-carbon process heat systems, electric heat pumps, combined heat and power (CHP) systems, thermal storage, and other heating systems based on electricity, clean hydrogen, biomass, or waste heat recovery;
- Energy efficiency technologies those that reduce direct fuel or electricity use, utilize insulation, sensors, or controls or deploy smart energy management systems or other advanced energy efficiency technologies;
- Industrial process emissions and waste reduction technologies such as those that reduce waste in industrial applications, including industrial heat pumps, CHP systems, or advanced recycling approaches;
- Fuel switching technologies that enable the transition to low carbon fuels such as fluidized bed biomass furnaces, solar-thermal heating systems, and direct reduced iron shaft furnaces designed or retrofitted for hydrogen-based reduction;
- On-site renewable energy technologies such as solar photovoltaic systems, wind turbines, micro-hydropower, or geothermal;
- Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies such as flue gas carbon capture systems or calcium looping CO2 capture systems;
- Fugitive emissions reduction technologies such as regenerative thermal oxidizers and ventilation air systems; and any other technology that reduces industrial GHG emissions, as determined by DEP.

**Subrecipient:** Small-, medium- and large-scale greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects for industrial decarbonization will be competitively awarded either directly by PADEP or by its subrecipient PennTAP.

**Outcomes:** The anticipated deliverables include:

- Standing up a statewide industrial decarbonization grant program;
- Completing 100-1,657 small-scale projects, 5-50 medium-scale projects, and 1-7 large-scale projects;
- Reducing air pollutants including CAPs and HAPs throughout Pennsylvania and in low income and disadvantaged communities (LIDACs);
- Submission of community benefits plans (CBPs); and publishing an industrial decarbonization playbook with case studies describing successful projects.

The expected outcomes include:

- Reduction in cumulative metric tons of GHG emissions, including 4,332,303 metric tons CO2e from 2025-2030 and 8,047,294 metric tons CO2e from 2025-2050;
- Reduction in annual criteria air pollutants, including particulate matter (both PM2.5 and PM10), carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone, and nitrogen dioxide, and hazardous air pollutants, including hydrogen sulfide, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, hexane, ethane, pentane, formaldehyde, butane, dichlorobenzene, and propane, in LIDACs in 2030;
- Lower energy demand and industrial energy expenditures;
- Enhanced level of community engagement;
- Creation of high-quality jobs; and reduction in...

Pennsylvania Department Of Environmental Protection

S - CROSS AGENCY STRATEGY S.1 - ENSURE SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY AND SCIENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING 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 1 - TACKLE THE CLIMATE CRISIS 1.1 - REDUCE EMISSIONS THAT CAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE 1 - TACKLE THE CLIMATE CRISIS 1.3 - ADVANCE INTERNATIONAL AND SUBNATIONAL CLIMATE EFFORTS 6 - SAFEGUARD AND REVITALIZE COMMUNITIES 6.2 - REDUCE WASTE AND PREVENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION 5 - ENSURE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 5.1 - ENSURE SAFE DRINKING WATER AND RELIABLE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE 4 - ENSURE CLEAN AND HEALTHY AIR FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 4.1 - IMPROVE AIR QUALITY AND REDUCE LOCALIZED POLLUTION AND HEALTH IMPACTS 1 - TACKLE THE CLIMATE CRISIS 1.1 - REDUCE EMISSIONS THAT CAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE 1 - A CLEANER, HEALTHIER ENVIRONMENT 1.2 - PROVIDE FOR CLEAN AND SAFE WATER 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 1 - CORE MISSION 1.1 - IMPROVE AIR QUALITY S - CROSS AGENCY STRATEGY S.1 - ENSURE SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY AND SCIENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING 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 1 - TACKLE THE CLIMATE CRISIS 1.1 - REDUCE EMISSIONS THAT CAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE 1 - TACKLE THE CLIMATE CRISIS 1.1 - REDUCE EMISSIONS THAT CAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE

66.046 - Climate Pollution Reduction Grants

EPA Region 3: Philadelphia [EPA - RO]

Pennsylvania United States

State-Wide

Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program: Implementation Grants (General Competition) (EPA-R-OAR-CPRGI-23-07)