Water Quality Trading Funding: Proposals Were Due September 9, 2008

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EPA is no longer accepting proposals for water quality trading or other market-based projects through its Targeted Watersheds Grants Program. Proposals were due September 9th, 2008. Projects must address reducing nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, or other pollutant loadings that cause low oxygen levels in local waters and which enter the Mississippi River system. Projects must be located in one of the three Mississippi River sub-basins with the highest nutrient loads contributing to hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, or the Lower Mississippi River. Proposals must be nominated by the governor of the state in which the project resides. EPA will award up to $4.2 million to support approximately 15 to 25 outstanding proposals. Nominated proposals are due September 9, 2008.

Request for Proposals: Targeted Watersheds Grants for Water Quality Trading or Other Market-Based Projects to Reduce the Hypoxic Zone in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (PDF): (36 pp, 211K)—Submissions were due September 9, 2008

Fact Sheet (PDF) (2 pp, 60K)

Questions and Answers - Updated July 10, 2008 (PDF) (8 pp, 58K)

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Water Quality Trading Funding: Proposals Were Due September 9, 2008

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