Grants and Cooperative Agreements

EPA’s Office of International Affairs offers project grants under several authorizations. Our mission is to protect human health and the environment while advancing U.S. national interests through international environmental collaboration. This mission is supported by four strategic objectives: (1) Reduce Transboundary Pollution; (2) Advance U.S. Interests Abroad; (3) Promote Good Environmental Governance; and (4) Ensure Effective Management.

The Office of International Affairs does not have any current open grant opportunities. Please continue to check our site, or visit Grants.gov to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. For general information on U.S. EPA grants and cooperative agreements, please refer to the Web page for EPA's Office of Grants and Debarment.

Our funding priorities in Fiscal Year 2008 were:

Clean Air
Clean and Safe Water
Healthy Communities and Ecosystems
- International Capacity Building (reduce chemical and biological risks);
- Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Implementation (reduce exposure to toxic pesticides and reduce chemical and biological risk);
- Environment and Trade (sustain community health);
- U.S. Mexico Border (sustain and restore community health, and preserve the ecological systems that support them)

OIA funded several international cooperative/grant projects during FY 07 and FY 08, for the protection of human health and the environment, such as

Title	Objective
Mobile Source Air Pollution	By 2011, eliminate the use of lead in gasoline in the remaining countries benefiting over 700 million people in developing countries and economies in transition.
Global Persistent Organic Pollutants	By 2011, place into safe storage 4,600 tons of obsolete and prohibited pesticides stockpiles and prohibited PCB-containing liquids impacting the Arctic.
Arctic Contaminants Action Program/ Indigenous Peoples Community Action Initiative	Estimated up to 6 Million drums with toxic and hazardous waste scattered throughout tundra and coastal line - The objective is to train local populations to collect the drums, destroy the contents and recycle the drums. Training has been completed for 40 resident-volunteers.
Global Mercury	By 2011, reduce mercury consumption and releases by 30.5 tons from chlor-alkali plants, artisanal gold mining, and coal combustion at pilot demonstration sites in China, Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia and West Africa.

Assistance under this program is generally available to States and local governments, territories and possessions, foreign governments, international organizations, Indian Tribes, and possessions of the U.S., including the District of Columbia, public and private universities and colleges, hospitals, laboratories, other public or private nonprofit institutions, which submit applications proposing projects with significant technical merit and relevance to EPA's Office of International Affairs' mission. For certain competitive funding opportunities under this CFDA description, the Agency may limit eligibility to compete to a number or subset of eligible applicants consistent with the Agency's Assistance Agreement Competition Policy.

For competitive awards, EPA will review and evaluate applications, proposals, and/or submissions in accordance with the terms, conditions, and criteria stated in the competitive announcement. Competitions will be conducted in accordance with EPA policies/regulations for competing assistance agreements. For non-competitive awards, OIA will conduct an administrative evaluation to determine the adequacy of the application in relation to grant regulations and to technical and program evaluation to determine the merit and relevance of the project. The Agency will then advise the applicant if funding is being considered. A final work plan will then be negotiated with the applicant.

View our grant information in the Catalogue of Federal and Domestic Assistance

Grants and Cooperative Agreements

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