Grants Program
RCC Solicitation Grants Awarded (as of January
22, 2007)
EPA Headquarters Grants:
Municipal and Industrial Solid
Waste Division Grants:
| Grant Title: |
Venue Recycling |
| Grant Number: |
X1-83316101 |
| Grantee: |
The National Association for PET Container
Resources (NAPCOR) and the Association for Postconsumer
Plastic Recyclers (APR) |
| Project Period: |
October 1, 2006 – September 30, 2007 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Judy Taylor |
| Description/Objectives: |
Establish a framework for sustainable ongoing
beverage container recycling programs at away-from-home
venues. The project will:
- Form a stakeholder group composed of NAPCOR, APR,
EPA, selected recycling and waste management professionals,
beverage brand companies, and representatives of the
venue management companies;
- Identify and categorize all venue locations in
the US, including data about facility location, ownership,
management; types and frequencies of events; capacities
and typical attendance;
- Estimate potential quantities of recyclable beverage
containers (plastic bottles. plastic cups, and aluminum
cans) at these venues;
- Identify venue categories that have model sustainable
recycling programs in place;
- Identify those venue categories where no recycling
programs exist or attempts at recycling programs were
unsuccessful;
- Develop a comprehensive list of all venues in the
US by category and the beverage containers they generate;
- Develop models of ongoing, sustainable programs
for replication in those venue categories through
the above efforts;
- Develop a strategic plan for large-scale implementation
of these models to the appropriate event categories.
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| Grant Title: |
Best Practices for Public Space
Recycling |
| Grant Number: |
X1-83315901 |
| Grantee: |
Neighborhood Recycling Corporation (DBA
Eureka Recycling) |
| Project Period: |
October 1, 2006 – September 30,
2008 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Judy Taylor |
| Description/Objectives: |
This project will create a model for
public space recycling that is tested for sustainability,
environmental benefits and cost. It will result in best
practices, including how to access the need and design
of public space recycling in a community, how to launch
a well-designed public space recycling program that
is cost-effective and sustainable, and the elements
of a comprehensive educational campaign that encourages
public space users to think about recycling and utilize
the recycling stations instead of putting everything
in the trash. Eureka Recycling has selected venues and
developed partnerships to test public space recycling
in a full spectrum of public spaces. Recycling at these
spaces would be applicable to many urban, rural, suburban
locations throughout the country. Recycling will be
tested at the Como Zoo and Conservatory and Como Park
in Saint Paul. Both indoor and outdoor attraction centers
will be included. In addition, Eureka Recycling and
the City of Saint Paul will identify a civic space within
Saint Paul to test public space recycling. By partnering
with Saint Paul Public Art, we will work with the established
neighborhood or business associations to create appropriate
and attractive public space recycling. |
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| Grant Title: |
Design a National Rebranding
Campaign for Recycling |
| Grant Number: |
X1-83320701 |
| Grantee: |
National Recycling Coalition |
| Project Period: |
October 1, 2006 – August 31, 2008 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Janice Johnson |
| Description/Objectives: |
The goal of the project is to increase
the national recycling rate from 30% to 35% by 2008.
First, NRC will provide technical assistance and guidance
on the definition and proper usage of recycling logos,
icons, and messages. This effort will be guided in part
by a group of experts and stakeholders who will clarify
standards and guidelines for use of the recycling logo
and symbols. A website will be created to place the
uniform information. In the second stage, NRC will undertake
consumer research to identify the most effective messages
for enhancing the value of recycling for consumers,
and will establish a fund development team to secure
financing for the national campaign from a broad-based
and diverse group of stakeholders. These funds will
be used to develop and place the creative part of the
national campaign in multiple media formats and markets
along with public service announcements. |
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| Grant Title: |
Curbside Recycling In Wilmington |
| Grant Number: |
X1-83316101 |
| Grantee: |
City of Wilmington, Delaware |
| Project Period: |
October 1, 2006 – September 30,
2007 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Angie Leith |
| Description/Objectives: |
The purpose of this project is to provide
public outreach and education to maximize residents’
participation in a new curbside recycling program. The
City, in partnership with RecycleBank (a Philadelphia
based company that has developed an innovative program
that rewards households for recycling) will provide
single stream collection of recyclables to approximately
7,200 households as a pilot program. The city will be
able to track participation in the new curbside recycling
and then use the grant money to produce outreach/education
materials. |
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| Grant Title: |
Redevelopment of MERGE, a Tool
to Assess the Environmental Impacts of Packaging Design
and Material Choice Decisions |
| Grant Number: |
X1-83313801 |
| Grantee: |
Green Blue Institute |
| Project Period: |
September 1, 2006 – April 1, 2008 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Angie Leith |
| Description/Objectives: |
The purpose of this project
is to upgrade and expand an existing tool (MERGE, a
tool developed by Environmental Defense in the mid-1990’s)
for packaging designers and developers to allow early
screening of design decision that affect the recyclability
of a package, the impact of recycle content and other
environmental impacts of design decision. This tool
will allow modifications to be made early in the product
development process when changes are most cost effective. |
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| Grant Title: |
State Electronics Challenge:
Bringing the Federal Electronics Challenge to the States
through a Pilot Demonstration in the Northeastern US |
| Grant Number: |
X19972612-06-0 |
| Grantee: |
Northeast Recycling Council, Inc. |
| Project Period: |
October 1, 2006 – September 30,
2008 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Joseph Bergstein (Region 2) |
| Description/Objectives: |
This demonstration project will expand
the potential and impact of the Federal Electronics
Challenge by creating a parallel state-level Partnership
program; the State Electronics Challenge (SEC). The
SEC will promote environmental stewardship of computers
by state, regional, and local government by providing
information, implementation tools, awards, technical
assistance, and specifically promoting implementation
of EPA's electronics programs: the Electronics Product
Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT), Energy Star®,
and Plug into eCycling. |
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| Grant Title: |
Development of a National Summary
CCP Report |
| Grant Number: |
83316201-0 |
| Grantee: |
University of North Dakota, Energy and
Environmental Research Center |
| Project Period: |
September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2007 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
John Sager |
| Description/Objectives: |
The purpose of this grant is to produce
a summary report which synthesizes the work of three previous
state reviews of coal combustion product utilization (CCP)
practices. The Department of Energy, the EPA, the American
Coal Ash Association and Headwaters, Inc. previously sponsored
a series of independent reviews in Texas, Florida and
Pennsylvania. The purpose of the reviews was to study
utilization practices, highlight successes, and identify
barriers to increased utilization. This summary report
will examine the results of the three reviews and provide
an analysis of CCP utilization from a national perspective. |
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| Grant Title: |
Seachable Database for State issued
Beneficial Use Determinations (BUDs) |
| Grant Number: |
X197151801 |
| Grantee: |
Northeast Management Officials Association
(NEWMOA) |
| Project Period: |
October 1, 2006 – September 30, 2008 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Christine Beling (Region 1) |
| Description/Objectives |
USEPA New England, with support from EPA
HQ and the Region 5 Chicago office, awarded a $35,000
cooperative agreement to the Northeast Management Officials
Association to develop a searchable database of beneficial
use determinations (BUDs). The database will initially
include information from the eight Northeast states, including
Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey, as well as, Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania, Florida, Indiana, and Minnesota. The database
will focus on coal combustion by-products, foundry sands,
and various construction and demolition (C&D) debris
materials. This work is building on an existing database,
developed by NEWMOA in 2001, by improving and expanding
the types of information available. The goal of the project
is to encourage the beneficial reuse of industrial by-products
and C&D debris and to decrease the quantity of materials
requiring disposal, through improved information sharing
among state BUD programs. The project will improve the
information available about the quantity of by-products
reuse that is occurring and the state BUD review process
by providing information about particular waste/use combinations
that other states have already dealt with. |
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| Grant Title: |
Create Market Development Tools
for Industrial Byproducts |
| Grant Number: |
X1-83316301 |
| Grantee: |
National Recycling Coalition |
| Project Period: |
June 30, 2006 – July 1, 2007 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Robert Burchard |
| Description/Objectives: |
The purpose of this project is to form a partnership
with EPA to promote the recycling of industrial materials.
Specifically, the Coalition will work with EPA to:
- Create and distribute information about industrial
byproducts;
- Establish an industrial materials Web site;
- Introduce industrial materials recycling to the
private sector; and
- Develop workshops to promote industrial materials
recycling.
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Hazardous Waste Minimization
and Management Division Grants:
| Grant Title: |
Trends in Mercury Use in Products
Sold in the United States |
| Grant Number: |
X1-8332401 |
| Grantee: |
Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association
(NEWMOA) |
| Project Period: |
July 1, 2006 – September 30, 2007 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Nolean Deskins |
| Description/Objectives: |
The Northeast Waste Management Officials'
Association (NEWMOA) goals for the project are to prepare
a report that presents the trends in the use of mercury
in products sold in the US in 2001 and 2004 based on data
submitted to the Interstate Mercury Education and Reduction
Clearinghouse (IMERC), and to prepare a proposal for implementing
electronic filing of Notification Forms by the regulated
community and how IMERC can implement the proposal in
time for the 2007 triennial Notification schedule. IMERC’s
efforts to transition to an e-filing database are to streamline
the regulatory burden on the reporting companies; improve
the quality of the data by building in logic and intelligence
that eliminates common errors, such as incorrect units
(i.e., firms reporting milligrams when they actually should
report in grams), incorrect calculations, illogical data,
or required data that are missing; dramatically reduce
the time needed to make the data available online; substantially
reduce IMERC’s costs for maintaining the database
by eliminating the need to manage and copy hard copy forms
and to manually input the data into the database; enable
the Clearinghouse to create the capacity for users of
the database to generate certain types of reports using
the data in the database that could be accessed through
the website; and, enable the states to sustain the Notification
system and the Mercury-added Products Database with the
funds that they provide through their annual dues to IMERC
by reducing the operating costs for IMERC in the long
term. |
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| Grant Title: |
Waste School Chemicals Removal
and Education Project |
| Grant Number: |
X1-83324201 |
| Grantee: |
Alabama Department of Environmental Management
(ADEM) |
| Project Period: |
October 1, 2006 – September 30, 2008 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Delores Rodgers-Smith (Region 4) |
| Description/Objectives: |
ADEM is conducting a demonstration project
involving 36 Alabama schools to identify and remove legacy
chemicals in order to set the stage for training and implementation
of responsible chemical management practices. The project
will:
- Identify and remove legacy chemicals from the participating
schools;
- Provide awareness training to the school faculty
and administrators; and
- Encourage participating schools to improve their
chemical management practices by altering their current
science curriculum to incorporate microscale or smallscale
chemistry and/or participate in the Alabama Science
in Motion program.
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| Grant Title: |
School Lab Cleanout and Prevention
Program |
| Grant Number: |
X1-83324301 |
| Grantee: |
Meramec Regional Planning Commission (MRPC) |
| Project Period: |
September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2008 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Edwin Buckner (Region 7) |
| Description/Objectives: |
MRPC is working with schools to raise awareness about
chemical hazards, cleanout labs, and provide assistance
to implement safe chemical management practices. Description
of work:
- Raise awareness and educate appropriate school staff;
- Conduct on-site chemical inventories;
- Identify potentially harmful materials and remove
them;
- Assist the participating schools in implementing
safer storage and inventory procedures, and chemical
procurement practices; and
- After six months follow up with the schools to see
if protocols are being followed.
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| Grant Title: |
North Carolina School Chemical
Cleanout and Maintenance Project |
| Grant Number: |
X1-83324501 |
| Grantee: |
North Carolina Department of Environment
and Natural Resources (NC DENR) |
| Project Period: |
October 1, 2006 – September 30, 2008 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Delores Rodgers-Smith (Region 4) |
| Description/Objectives: |
NC DENR is carrying out a demonstration
project to remove outdated and hazardous chemicals from
NC schools, and provide technical assistance, training
and educational guidance on proper chemical management.
The project will develop training materials for school
personnel in areas of progressive laboratory and maintenance
chemical management, and preventative approaches for future
chemical management. Description of work:
- Test a program to remove potentially harmful chemicals
from schools and implement responsible chemical management
practices;
- Support chemistry teachers and school facilities
managers by providing technical assistance; and
- Increase statewide awareness of the problem of out-dated,
off-specification and unused chemicals being accumulated
and stored in North Carolina schools.
The lessons learned from this project will help inform
the design and implementation of future chemical management
programs. |
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EPA Region 3 Grant:
| Grant Title: |
Solid Waste Management Asst –TWNOBLKSBG |
| Grant Number: |
X1-97341201 |
| Grantee: |
Town of Blacksburg, Virginia |
| Project Period: |
August 1, 2006 – August 1, 2007 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Sharon D. Pérez-Suárez (EPA
Region 3) |
| Description/Objectives: |
This project will enhance the health and
safety of the community of the Town of Blacksburg, Virginia,
by removing and/or significantly reducing priority chemicals
from the solid waste stream through the town’s efforts
to change behaviors with community based innovative approaches,
outreach, and education programs. The objective of this
project is to minimize any adverse effects related to
the release into the environment of hazardous materials
present in electronic waste, fluorescent lighting equipment,
automobile wheel weights, and cadmium batteries; which
is objective (a)(1) of the Statutory Authority, Section
8001 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. |
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EPA Region 6 Grants:
| Grant Title: |
McAllen's Computers and Electronics
Recycling Project |
| Grant Number: |
X1-96626401 |
| Grantee: |
City of McAllen, Texas |
| Project Period: |
September 6, 2006 – August 31, 2007 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Deanna Debose (EPA Region 6) |
| Description/Objectives: |
The purpose of the Computer and Electronics
Recycling Project is to develop a comprehensive region-wide
E-cycle program for the Lower Rio Grande Valley region
of Texas that will include partnering with local and county
governments, schools districts, organizations, businesses,
and individuals to promote the recycling of computers
and electronic equipment. The project will be implemented
by conducting a regional media campaign to expand the
City’s current computer recycling pilot program
into a more comprehensive and regional E-Cycling program
that will promote the recycling of computers and other
electronic equipment and help decrease the quantities
of computers and electronic equipment currently being
transported to landfills because of the lack of computer
recycling programs in the region. |
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| Grant Title: |
Special Three (3) Day Electronics
Collection |
| Grant Number: |
X1-6625801 |
| Grantee: |
Pulaski County (Arkansas) Regional Solid
Waste MD |
| Project Period: |
August 9, 2006 – July 31, 2007 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Deanna Debose (EPA Region 6) |
| Description/Objectives: |
Special Three (3) Day Electronics Collection
— Pulaski County Regional Solid Waste Management
District would like to host a three (3) day Electronics
Collection event for business and non profit communities
within Pulaski County, Arkansas. This collection will
reduce waste generation and increase the recycling of
electronics. |
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| Grant Title: |
Central Texas E-Cycling Project |
| Grant Number: |
X1-96626401 |
| Grantee: |
Goodwill Industries of Central Texas |
| Project Period: |
September 19, 2006 – August 31, 2007 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
Deanna Debose (EPA Region 6) |
| Description/Objectives: |
The purpose of the Computer and Electronics
Recycling Project is to develop a comprehensive region-wide
E-cycle program for the Lower Rio Grande Valley region
of Texas that will include partnering with local and county
governments, schools districts, organizations, businesses,
and individuals to promote the recycling of computers
and electronic equipment. The project will be implemented
by conducting a regional media campaign to expand the
City’s current computer recycling pilot program
into a more comprehensive and regional E-Cycling program
that will promote the recycling of computers and other
electronic equipment and help decrease the quantities
of computers and electronic equipment currently being
transported to landfills because of the lack of computer
recycling programs in the region. |
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EPA Region 7 Grants:
| Grant Title: |
Missouri Recycling Information
Campaign |
| Grant Number: |
X1-98776401 |
| Grantee: |
Missouri Recycling Association |
| Project Period: |
October 1, 2006 – May 30, 2008 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
David Flora (Region 7) |
| Description/Objectives: |
This is an educational campaign to disseminate
information and about the benefits of recycling. It will
pull together existing information about the benefits
of recycling throughout Missouri. The goal is to increase
awareness, support and participation for recycling, at
the city, county and state level. Key participants are
the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, the Missouri
Recycling Association (MORA) and 26 solid waste districts. |
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| Grant Title: |
Recycling on the Go: Opportunities
to Recycle at Public Events |
| Grant Number: |
X1-98779801 |
| Grantee: |
Nebraska State Recycling Association |
| Project Period: |
October 1, 2006 – September 30, 2007 |
| EPA Project Officer: |
David Flora (Region 7) |
| Description/Objectives: |
This project will establish a model for
the creation of recycling systems and programs for public
and private events and test and evaluate the model in
up to three events within the Omaha/Council Bluffs metropolitan
region. |
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RCC Grants Program: Fiscal
Year 2006 - Request for Initial Proposals
The EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER)
and EPA
Regions 2, 3, 6 and 7 are soliciting proposals for assistance
agreements that address solid waste reduction, recycling and
management, and priority chemical reduction. The remaining
EPA Regions may issue similar solicitations for their Regions,
and should be contacted separately.
The aim of this solicitation is to foster positive change
by stimulating innovative ideas for waste reduction and recycling
projects to:
- Increase the national recycling rate from 30% to 35% by
2008;
- Reduce and recycle industrial byproducts (including construction
and demolition debris);
- Reduce the amount of electronic waste going to landfills
and/or incinerators; and
- Reduce the amount of priority chemicals found in waste
streams.
This solicitation describes the program goals and gives general
information on the application and selection process, initial
proposal format, and evaluation criteria.
Solicitation
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