FY2012 Source Reduction Assistance

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EPA is pleased to announce the release of the FY2012 Source Reduction Assistance Assistance (SRA) Request for Proposals. EPA’s Regional Pollution Prevention Program Offices anticipate having up to $147,000 per region in total award funding to support pollution prevention (P2)/source reduction projects activities that will begin in FY 2013. The Regions will issue the awards in the form of grants and/or cooperative agreements. Award selection, funding and grant oversight will be managed by the Regions.

Region 9 is seeking proposals for projects that can lead to or result in significant marketplace change by addressing demand for or supply of sustainable goods and services. Specifically, proposals should address one or more of the following Regional priorities:
• Promote market transformation and product redesign through implementing green chemistry approaches and improving public access to and transparency of information on chemicals in products.
• Promote source reduction projects that demonstrate innovative, scalable approaches for addressing Region 9’s sector priorities:
   electronics design for the environment,
   hospitality sector including lodging and sports venues, and/or
   sources of marine debris including packaging
• Promote scalable demonstration projects to improve environmentally preferable purchasing of products and services by states, tribes, and local governments; other large institutions; and consumers, with a focus on the sectors mentioned above. Projects will make it easier for other states, tribes, local governments and institutions to buy greener products.
• Promote projects that develop and implement a financially self-sustaining on-site P2 technical assistance program for manufacturers to support EPA’s Economy, Energy and Environment (E3) partnerships.
• Promote scalable demonstration projects that help states, tribes, local governments and businesses manage materials in a more sustainable way with an emphasis on source reduction.

You can find the full 2012 SRA RFP at: http://epa.gov/p2/pubs/grants/srap/srap12.pdf.

Proposals are due on Tuesday, April 10, 2012.

Applicants are required to submit proposals by mail or through Grants.gov. Email and faxed submissions should not be accepted -- per the OGD guidelines.

For more information contact Leif Magnuson at magnuson.leif@epa.gov 415 972-3286