The Solid Waste for Infrastructure (SWIFR) grant program funded through the BIL is an historic investment in the health, equity, and resilience of American communities.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: American Samoa, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/04/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,500,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
SWIFR Grants for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia will provide funds for tribes and intertribal consortia to develop or update plans focused on encouraging environmentally sound post-consumer materials management; establish, increase, or expand materials management infrastructure, utilize funds for equipment and construction related costs as part of their implementation plans, and identify, establish, or improve end-markets for the use of recycled materials.
Program Vision and Goals
This RFA has the following goals:
- Fund projects that focus on encouraging environmentally sound post-consumer materials management.
- Fund projects that will result in a decrease in the generation of municipal solid waste and/or an increase in the diversion of municipal solid waste from landfills and incineration; and/or
- Fund projects that provide or expand access to source reduction, reuse, recycling, backhaul, anaerobic digestion, and composting for tribes and tribal members of intertribal consortia.
Funding Information
The minimum individual award is $100,000 and the maximum individual award is $1,500,000 for the grant period, which is up to three years.
Eligibility Criteria
Under this announcement, applications will be accepted from:
- Federally Recognized Tribes, 8 which include Alaskan Native Villages as defined in Public Law 92-203, and former Indian reservations in Oklahoma, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, and
- Intertribal consortia, consistent with the requirements in 40 CR 35.504(a).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.