The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) is issuing this NOFO to announce the availability of funds and solicit applications from eligible entities to conduct climate and air quality planning activities under the EPA’s Clean Ports Program.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/28/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The EPA’s goals for the Clean Ports Program are to:
- build a foundation for ports across thecountry to transition to fully ZE operations, positioning ports to serve as a catalyst for transformational change across the freight sector;
- reduce mobile source pollution in nearport communities, especially disadvantaged communities; and
- help ensure that meaningful community engagement and emissions reduction planning are port industry standard practices.
The Climate and Air Quality Planning Competition is designed to fund climate and air quality planning activities focused on one or more ports that fall under the categories of emissions inventory and accounting exercises, strategy analysis and goalsetting, stakeholder collaboration and communication, and resilience planning.
Programmatic Priorities
Applicants should address these priorities in their applications.
- Environmental Justice and Disadvantaged Communities
- The EPA is committed to accelerating environmental justice (EJ) in communities overburdened by pollution through this program.
- Nonattainment areas
- As required by the statute, the EPA plans to award a minimum of $750 million for projects in nonattainment areas across this funding opportunity.
- Emissions reductions
- The EPA encourages applicants to focus on and seek funds for planning projects that will best enable them to build capacity to reduce port emissions and transition to ZE operations over time.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $150,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $3,000,000
- Award Floor: $200,000
Period of Performance
3 years
Eligibility Criteria
EPA’s Policy for Competition of Assistance Agreements competition under this solicitation is available to:
- Port authorities;
- State, regional, local, or Tribal agencies that have jurisdiction over a port authority or a port
- Air pollution control agencies and
- Private entities that:
- apply for a grant in a Statutory Partnership with an entity described in 1-3 above; and
own, operate, or use the facilities, cargo-handling equipment, transportation equipment, or related technology of a port.
- apply for a grant in a Statutory Partnership with an entity described in 1-3 above; and
The term “State” means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa and includes the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.