Funding Opportunities

2023-06-16 — Joint Office of Energy and Transportation Ride and Drive Electric, Fiscal Year 2023 Funding Opportunity Announcement
The Joint Office of Energy and Transportation (Joint Office), through the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), is issuing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled “Joint Office of Energy and Transportation Ride and Drive Electric, Fiscal Year 2023 Funding Opportunity Announcement.” Awards made under this FOA will be funded, in whole or in part, with funds appropriated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, more commonly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Concept paper due June 16. [ full text ]

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2023-05-26 — Biden-Harris Administration Announces More than $315 Million Through Investing in America Agenda for Cleanup and Technical Assistance at Polluted Brownfield Sites
On March 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced more than $315 million from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to expedite the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites across the country while advancing environmental justice. [ full text ]

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2023-05-26 — EPA to Award Over $10 Million in Grants to Support Water Quality Monitoring at Beaches to Protect Public Health
on May 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $10.6 million in grant funding to help coastal and Great Lakes communities protect the health of beachgoers this summer. The funding will assist many states, Tribes and territories in conducting water quality monitoring and public notification programs for their beaches. [ full text ]

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2023-05-26 — Apply for EPA Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes
The Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes provides financial assistance to tribal governments and tribal consortia for the development and implementation of hazardous waste programs; for building capacity to improve and maintain regulatory compliance; and for developing solutions to address improper management of hazardous waste on tribal lands. [ full text ]

2023-05-26 — FEMA’s Apply for FEMA's FY23 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)
The Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) plays an important role in the implementation of the National Preparedness System. RCPGP supports the building of core capabilities essential to achieving the National Preparedness Goal of a secure and resilient nation by providing resources to close known capability gaps in Housing and Logistics and Supply Chain Management, encouraging innovative regional solutions to issues related to catastrophic incidents, and building on existing regional efforts. [ full text ]

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2023-05-19 — Apply for a USDA Revolving Fund for Financing Water and Wastewater Projects by June 10
This program helps qualified nonprofits create revolving loan funds that can provide financing to extend and improve water and waste disposal systems operated by local governments, nonprofits, or Indian tribes in rural areas. [ full text ]

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2023-05-19 — Apply to Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant Program by July 10
The SS4A program funds regional, local, and Tribal initiatives through grants to prevent roadway deaths and serious injuries. Apply now through July 10. [ full text ]

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2023-05-10 — Check out EPA Grants Management Training for Applicants and Recipients
This online training course is designed to introduce EPA grant applicants and recipients to key aspects of the entire grant life cycle, from preparation of an application through grant closeout. Throughout this training, the term grant is used as a general term to refer to both grants and cooperative agreements. [ full text ]

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2023-05-10 — Check out EPA's Budget Training Course
This online training course is designed to introduce EPA grant applicants and recipients to key aspects of grant budget development. The training may be used by applicants and recipients of EPA funds when preparing proposed work plans, budgets, and budget narratives for EPA grants. Throughout this training, the term grant is used as a general term to refer to both grants and cooperative agreements. [ full text ]

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2023-03-21 — EPA Clean Air Act Grants - $25 million
Eligibility will be limited to air agencies currently receiving CAA Section 105 grants. EPA will award these grants non-competitively to air pollution control agencies. EPA encourages eligible state, local, Tribal, and territorial air agencies to submit grant applications as soon as possible and no later than April 15, 2023. [ full text ]

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2023-03-21 — HUD’s Thriving Communities Technical Assistance (TCTA) Program (14.259).
The TCTA program, funded in FY22 with $5 million, is designed to support the coordination and integration of transportation and housing in infrastructure planning and implementation – including trails. Development of a walking and biking trail could include TCTA to develop anti-displacement strategies or Revitalization of a rural main street could include TCTA to identify strategies to preserve and produce housing near the main street. Requests will be reviewed as they are received on a rolling basis, with review beginning on March 15, 2023. If your jurisdiction is not yet ready for TCTA, future TA opportunities will be available. [ full text ]

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2023-03-21 — DOT Opens Applications for First Round of $2.5 Billion Program to Build EV Charging in Communities & Neighborhoods Nationwide.
The Biden-Harris Administration today opened applications for a new multi-billion-dollar program to fund electric vehicle (EV) charging and alternative-fueling infrastructure in communities across the country and along designated highways, interstates, and major roadways. [ full text ]

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2023-03-21 — EPA Provides Rural, Small, and Tribal Wastewater Technical Assistance
Click the link to find a technical assistance provider and discover more about how these providers can provide support by 1) ensuring that rural, small, and tribal communities that have difficulty in securing public funding receive the help they need to access resources to support infrastructure improvements and 2) supporting rural, small, and tribal wastewater treatment systems–centralized and decentralized–build their technical, managerial, and financial capacity to operate their systems well and maintain compliance. [ full text ]

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2023-03-21 — OCCHE Launches Program to Allocate Environmental Justice Solar and Wind Capacity
The Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program promotes clean energy investments in low-income communities, on Tribal Land, and within affordable housing. Beginning in 2023, a 10 percentage point increase is available to eligible solar and wind facilities that are installed in low-income communities or on Tribal land. A 20 percentage point credit increase will be available to clean energy projects that serve a qualified low-income residential building or provide at least 50% of the financial benefits of electricity generated to low-income households. [ full text ]

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2023-03-21 — OCCHE Launches Program to Allocate Environmental Justice Solar and Wind Capacity
The Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program promotes clean energy investments in low-income communities, on Tribal Land, and within affordable housing. Beginning in 2023, a 10 percentage point increase is available to eligible solar and wind facilities that are installed in low-income communities or on Tribal land. A 20 percentage point credit increase will be available to clean energy projects that serve a qualified low-income residential building or provide at least 50% of the financial benefits of electricity generated to low-income households. [ full text ]

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2023-03-14 — EPA Announces the Availability of $16 Million for Pollution Prevention Grants in Environmental Justice Communities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $16 million for two new grant opportunities to support states and Tribes in providing technical assistance to businesses seeking to develop and adopt pollution prevention (P2) practices that advance environmental justice in underserved communities. [ full text ]

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2023-03-14 — DOE Offers Funding Opportunity for Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas
Provides financial investment, technical assistance, and other resources to advance clean energy demonstrations and energy solutions in rural and remote areas that can be replicated and scaled. Apply by June 28, 2023. [ full text ]

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2023-03-07 — EPA Announces $2.4 Billion for Clean Water Infrastructure Upgrades Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law through this year’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF)
Nearly half of funding for states, Tribes, and territories is available as grants and forgivable loans for critical water infrastructure projects that will help underserved communities across the country. [ full text ]

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2023-03-07 — NFWF Opens FY23 National Fish & Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) - National Coastal Resilience Fund
Planning, design, and restoration of natural and nature-based solutions to help protect coastal communities from the impacts of storms, floods, and other natural hazards and enable them to recover more quickly and enhance habitats for fish and wildlife. Pre-Proposal Due Date: April 12, 2023. Full Proposal Invitations: Mid to End of May 2023. Full Proposal by Invite Only Due Date: June 28, 2023. [ full text ]

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2023-02-21 — Questions and Answers document for the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grants for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia
The following are formal Agency responses to questions/comments received regarding the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grants for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia. This list of questions and answers will be updated as questions about the funding opportunity are received. [ full text ]

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2023-02-21 — EPA’s Watershed Academy Launches Hazard Mitigation Module Creating Co-Benefits Through Hazard Mitigation Planning and Water Resource Management Module
This module is intended for water quality and hazard mitigation professionals that are interested in integrating water quality issues and/or nature-based solutions into state or local Hazard Mitigation Plans (HMPs), and highlights the benefits of working across water quality and hazard mitigation programs. Modules in this series can be used as training tools to help planners from both worlds explore activities of mutual interest and benefit. Case studies and examples are provided to assist hazard mitigation planners with integrating water resource programs into HMPs and help watershed planners understand the synergies between water resource plans and HMPs. [ full text ]

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2023-02-21 — EPA’s New Pollution Prevention (P2) Grant Opportunities Focused on Environmental Justice are Coming Soon!  
EPA is providing notice of these grant opportunities in advance so potential applicants can make the necessary preparations to submit a high-quality application to the Agency. Eligible applicants include states, state entities such as universities, U.S. territories and possessions, and federally recognized Tribes and intertribal consortia. The two grant opportunities are: “Pollution Prevention Grant: Environmental Justice in Communities” and “Pollution Prevention Grant: Environmental Justice Through Safer and More Sustainable Products.” [ full text ]

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2023-02-14 — Overview of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law CWSRF Emerging Contaminants Supplemental Appropriation Recording
Recording of EPA webinar that discusses the recently authorized Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) emerging contaminants funding. “It includes an overview of emerging contaminants and CWSRF funding eligibility; emerging contaminant project ideas, including monitoring activities; and highlights of the CWSRF emerging contaminant projects being considered in several states.” [ full text ]

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2023-02-14 — EPA’s Local Government Advisory Committee Releases Latest Recommendations on IRA and Heavy Duty Vehicles Program.
Input and recommendations from LGAC to EPA about how to develop and execute programs under IRA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Program. Provides recommendation for funding priorities, technical assistance, improving multi-government coordination and more. [ full text ]

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2023-02-14 — Preparing for and Accessing Water Infrastructure Funding and Opportunities with Support from EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working to ensure that projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law build the adaptive capacity of communities and their water systems to be better prepared for climate change and the impacts of more extreme weather in the future. EPA’s Creating Resilient Water Utilities initiative supports these efforts by empowering communities to pursue funding from Federal loan and grant programs, such as the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Programs. [ full text ]

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2023-02-14 — Empowering Communities to Improve Climate Resilience in the Water Sector
This video presents ways in which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Creating Resilient Water Utilities initiative can support communities, particularly those historically underserved by government funding and support, as they confront climate change challenges. This support is timely, given the unprecedented levels of government funding now available from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which aims to reinvest in our Nation’s water infrastructure. [ full text ]

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2023-02-14 — FEMA’s SAVE THE DATE: Hazard Mitigation Partners Virtual Workshop is October 16-19, 2023.
Theme: All Together for Climate Resilient Communities will bring stakeholders together to discuss our focus on partnerships, community-based efforts to prevent and reduce the risk of flooding, expanding access to Hazard Mitigation Assistance grant funding, and simplifying our mitigation programs and processes to help the whole community build climate resilience. Abstract submissions open March 2023 [ full text ]

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2023-02-14 — EPA Announces $6.5 Billion in New Funding Available for Water Infrastructure Projects
Releases notices of funding availability for the agency’s Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program and the State Infrastructure Financing Authority WIFIA (SWIFIA) program. OPEN NOW! Letters of interest may be submitted by prospective borrowers and received by EPA at any time on or after September 6, 2022. The submission period will close when all available funds are committed to prospective borrowers. EPA encourages submissions at the beginning of the availability period. This round’s program priorities include one water innovation, resilience, increasing investment in economically stressed communities, making rapid progress on lead service line replacement, and addressing PFAS and emerging contaminants. Letters of interest will be accepted on a rolling basis until all funds have been expended. [ full text ]

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2023-01-31 — U.S. Department of Energy Announces the Buildings Upgrade Prize
The Buildings Upgrade Prize (Buildings UP) is offering more than $22 million in cash prizes and technical assistance to teams across America with winning ideas to accelerate widespread, equitable energy efficiency and building electrification upgrades. Local governments, Indian tribes, and other organizations are encouraged to collaborate and apply. Applications support for new and under-resourced teams is available. For more information, attend an informational webinar on Thursday, February 2 at 12 PM ET. Due Date: February 15, March 15, and April 14 2023. [ full text ]

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2023-01-31 — USDA's Water & Waste Disposal Predevelopment Planning Grants
This program helps eligible low-income communities plan and develop applications for proposed USDA Rural Development water or waste disposal projects. [ full text ]

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2023-01-31 — USDA's SEARCH - Special Evaluation Assistance for Rural Communities and Households Grant
This program helps very small, financially distressed rural communities with pre-development feasibility studies, design and technical assistance on proposed water and waste disposal projects. Application Deadline: Ongoing [ full text ]

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