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Performance Partnership Grants (PPGs)
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Currently in Region 5, four of six States have Performance Partnership Grants (PPGs). The States are Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Ohio and Michigan continue to prepare individual program plans. Under a PPG, States can achieve cost and administrative savings through reductions in paperwork and simplified accounting requirements. In addition, States can negotiate work plans with EPA that direct Federal funds where they are needed most to address environmental and public health problems. States can also try new multi-media approaches and initiatives such as; children's health protection programs, multi-media inspections, compliance assistance programs, and ecosystem management, that were difficult to fund under traditional categorical grants.