The Great Lakes Environmental Justice Grants Program (GLEJGPs) is the Great Lakes National Program Office’s (GLNPO’s) major competitive grant funding opportunity for FY-23 to help fulfill EPA’s commitment to Environmental Justice (EJ). The GLEJGPs are being established to make Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funds available to underserved communities to promote the restoration and protection of the Great Lakes ecosystem in or near those communities. Grant awards from this funding opportunity are to be used by potential pass-through entities for issuing and overseeing subawards for environmental restoration projects in historically underserved Great Lakes communities in order to develop and implement a subaward funding program to fund projects in those communities pursuant to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan III.
Under this competition, approximately $30,000,000 may be awarded for one to six cooperative agreements over approximately six years. The number of cooperative agreements and total amount awarded is contingent upon funding availability, the quality of applications received, Agency priorities, and other applicable considerations.
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Grant priorities include:
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Applicants must provide a written commitment that all Project Subrecipient activities are carried out within underserved communities in the Great Lakes geographic region.
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There is no cost-sharing or matching requirement as a condition of eligibility under the Request for Proposals (RFA).
Although cost-sharing/matching is not required as a condition of eligibility under this competition, under Section V of the RFA will take leveraging into account when evaluating proposals.
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Eligible costs include:
Ineligible activities include:
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It is EPA’s expectation that the award, including all subawards, will have a total period of performance of up to six years (January 2024 – January 2030) with incremental funding provided on an annual basis.
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Complete application package must be submitted electronically to EPA through Grants.gov no later than September 15, 2023, 11:59 PM ET. Application packages must be submitted electronically to EPA through Grants.gov. Organizations applying to this funding opportunity must have an active SAM.gov registration. Please note that this process can take a month or more for new registrants.
If your organization has no access to the internet or access is very limited, you may request an exception for the remainder of this calendar year at least 15 calendar days before the application due date.
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If you have general and technical questions, please contact the following staff at the EPA Great Lakes National Program Office:
Cara Walsh
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