Deadline: March 14, 2025
Award Amount: $100,000 to $1,500,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Federally recognized tribes
Description: The EPA is soliciting applications for a wide variety of projects designed to build and transform Tribal solid waste infrastructure reducing waste and managing materials to achieve a circular economy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create cleaner, resilient, and healthier communities. Projects will create new capacity that foster environmentally sound solid waste management and facilitate greater access for Tribal communities to source reduction (e.g., repair clinics, reuse centers), recycling, backhaul, anaerobic digestion, and composting opportunities.
In addition, the EPA is seeking projects addressing environmental justice concerns and focusing predominantly on addressing the disproportionate and adverse human health, environmental, climate-related, and other cumulative impacts, as well as the accompanying economic challenges of such impacts, that have affected and/or currently affect Tribal and indigenous populations, and other vulnerable populations such as the elderly, children, and those with pre-existing medical conditions.