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EPA Accepting Applications for Environmental Justice Small Grants

Release Date: 01/31/2001
Contact Information: Amy Miller, EPA Press Office (617-918-1042)

BOSTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice is accepting grant applications for environmental justice small grants. The application deadline is March 9.

The grants are designed to provide financial assistance to eligible community groups – grassroots organizations, churches, federally-recognized tribal governments or other non-profit groups – that are involved in projects to address environmental justice issues. Preference will be given to community-based organizations that are working on local solutions to local environmental problems.

The ceiling for any one grant is $20,000 for Superfund-related applications and $15,000 for all other applications. EPA's New England Office has about $150,000 to issue in grants this year, of which $50,000 will be available exclusively for Superfund-related applications.

Grants will be awarded in late summer.

Workshops on environmental justice small grants will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Feb. 7, at the EPA New England Office at One Congress St. Suite 1100, Boston, Mass. and 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Feb. 28, at the Tower Square Community Center at 150 Main St. in Springfield, Mass.

A series of teleconference calls on the grant application process will be held in February and early March. For information on those calls contact EPA's Ronnie Harrington at (617) 918-1703.

To request an application packet or to register for the conference calls and workshops, contact the EPA Customer Call Center at (888) 372-7341.