EPA Region 10 seeks to fund proposals that fit into one or more of the following categories:
Promote education and outreach on source reduction, product stewardship, reuse, recycling, composting, and/or buying recycled products
Address data gaps in the reduce, reuse, and recycle hierarchy
Provide technical assistance or spur innovative technology development to promote source reduction, product stewardship, reuse, recycling, composting, and/or buying recycled products.
Stimulate market development for materials that are difficult to recycle, such as construction and demolition debris, electronics, tires, etc.
Incorporate EPA initiatives (e.g., community-based environmental protection, environmental justice, extended producer responsibility, sustainability, protecting children's health from environmental threats) with source reduction, product stewardship, reuse, recycling, composting, and/or recycled product procurement projects.
Improvement of collection, disposal, or landfill techniques.
Between $5,000-$20,000 in award money is available.
Persons or parties eligible for the grant money include states, tribes, territories, multi-state/tribal organizations, universities, local governments, and not-for-profit organizations in states within the EPA Region.
To apply for grant money the first step is to communicate with EPA: The proposal process relies extensively on direct communication (in person or by phone, fax or electronic mail) with the EPA Region 10 contact. For this solicitation please contact Domenic Calabro at (206) 553-6640 or by e-mail at calabro.domenic@epa.gov.
Pre-Proposals should be e-mailed, mailed, or faxed, to be received by EPA no later than February 1, 2002, to: Domenic Calabro, U.S. EPA, 1200 Sixth AVE,
Mail stop: WCM-128, Seattle, Washington 98101, fax: (206) 553-8509,e-mail: calabro.domenic@epa.gov.