Environmental Protection Agency

Environmental Protection Agency

Brownfields Competitive Grant Program ($1.2B)

  • Description: The IIJA provides significant investment into the Brownfields program to help communities, States, Tribes and others to assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse contaminated properties.
  • Eligible Applicants: State, local, and tribal government entities as well as nonprofit organizations.
  • Application Deadline: TBD
  • Apply or learn more: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE

 

Clean School Bus Program ($5B) 

  • Description: EPA will offer a total of $5 billion between fiscal years 2022 and 2026 to fund the replacement of dirtier school buses with low- or no-carbon school buses. Each year, $500 million will be available exclusively for electric school buses and $500 million will be available for electric buses and multiple types of cleaner alternative fuel school buses. EPA can offer grants and rebates to assist fleets in purchasing new, cleaner school buses and the associated charging and fueling infrastructure. EPA will ensure a broad geographic distribution of awards
  • Eligible Applicants: State and local governments, eligible contractors and nonprofit school transportation associations.
  • Application Deadline: TBD
  • Apply or learn more: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE

 

Pollution Prevention Program ($100M) 

  • Description: Grants provide technical assistance to businesses in order to help them develop and adopt source reduction practices (also known as “pollution prevention” or “P2”). P2 means reducing or eliminating pollutants from entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal.
  • Eligible Applicants: State governments, colleges and universities (recognized as instrumentalities of the state), federally-recognized tribes and intertribal consortia.
  • Application Deadline: TBD
  • Apply or learn more: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE

 

Post-Consumer Materials Management Infrastructure Grant Program ($275M)

  • Description: This will fund a new grant program, established in Save our Seas 2.0 (Pub. L. 16-224), that allows the agency to award grants to states for projects that will improve local post-consumer materials management, including municipal recycling programs.
  • Eligible Applicants: States and tribes.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach Grant Program ($75M) 

  • Description: IIJA creates a new program at the EPA to award competitive grants to states, local and tribal governments, nonprofits, and public-private partnerships to improve the effectiveness of recycling programs. Grant money can be used to help educate households and consumers about residential and community recycling programs, provide information about recyclable materials, and increase collection rates and decrease contamination.
  • Eligible Applicants: State, local, and tribal government entities as well as nonprofit organizations and public-private partnerships.
  • Application Deadline: TBD