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EPA Region 6 Healthy Environmental Living Program Grant

This funding record is inactive. Please see the program website or contact the program sponsor to determine if this program is currently accepting applications or will open again in the future.

 
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 66.963
Sponsor
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Deadlines
Jan 28, 2022
Contact

Chelsea Perry
214.665.2175
Perry.Chelsea@epa.gov

Purpose

The Healthy Environmental Living Program Grant provides funding for communities in EPA Region 6 to reduce environmental risk to protect and improve human health and quality of life.

Projects should:

  • Assess, understand, and reduce environmental and human health risk
  • Increase collaboration through community capacity to understand and solve environmental and human health problems
  • Build institutional and community capacity to understand and solve environmental and human health problems
  • Achieve measurable environmental and human health benefits
  • Reduce pollution at the source
  • Advance emergency preparedness and resilience

Target priorities include:

  • Pollution prevention
  • Sustainable materials management
  • Lead-based paint
  • Integrated pest management
  • Pollinator protection
Eligibility

Eligible applicants include:

  • State and local governments
  • Federally recognized tribal governments
  • Private and quasi-public nonprofit institutions and organizations
  • K- 12 schools and school districts
  • Grassroots and/or community-based nonprofit organizations
  • Colleges and universities with substantial community involvement
Geographic coverage
EPA Region 6 states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas
Amount of funding

Award ceiling: $100,000
Award floor: $25,000
Project period: 1-2 years
Estimated number of awards: 10
Estimated total program funding: $500,000

Application process

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab.

Tagged as
Emergency preparedness and response · Environmental health · Food security and nutrition · Public health · Arkansas · Louisiana · New Mexico · Oklahoma · Texas

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