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- SBIR Program Overview Available
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- NIEHS' has posted three Amendments to two joint NIEHS/EPA RFAs: NOT-ES-09-003, NOT-ES-09-004 and NOT-ES-09-005 Revisions and Clarifications to RFA-ES-08-002 and RFA-ES-08-004 Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (with NIEHS) - Open: January 21, 2009 - Closing: April 30, 2009 and Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers: Formative Centers (with NIEHS) - Open: January 21, 2009 - Closing: April 30, 2009). The Amendments add information about page limitations, and applications with multiple PDs/PIs to Section IV Application and Submission Information; and changes to eligibility, funding, community involvement, and other sections of the RFA.
All Requests for Applications (RFAs) that are planned for 2009 can be found below. This list is tentative pending the outcome of the applicable fiscal year appropriations. Please check back for updates or sign up for our list serve to get e-mail announcements when RFAs are posted.
STAR Requests for Applications invite research proposals from academic and non-profit institutions located in the U.S., And state and local governments. All forms necessary for completing an application are noted in the announcement and are available on this site (see below).
Click on the highlighted funding opportunities below to view the announcement on screen (HTML). Click on the following for standard STAR grant application forms and instructions -- Forms/Standard Instructions and additional Quality Systems Guidance for STAR Grants -- available in MS Word and PDF formats.
EPA Grants
- Novel Approaches to Improving Air Pollution Emissions Information - Open: January 21, 2009 - Closing: April 21, 2009 - Closed
- Understanding the Role of Nonchemical Stressors and Developing Analytic Methods for Cumulative Risk Assessments - Open: February 13, 2009 - Closing: June 17, 2009
- Exploring Linkages between Health Outcomes and Environmental Hazards, Exposures, and Interventions for Public Health Tracking and Risk Management - Opens April 2009
- Innovative and Integrative Approaches for Advancing Public Health Protection Through Water Infrastructure for Sustainabilty - Opens April 2009
- Air Research Centers - Opens June 2009
EPA and Research Partners
- Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (with NIEHS) - Open: January 21, 2009 - Closing: April 30, 2009 - Closed
- NIEHS has posted an amendment to the Children's Centers RFAs which adds information about page limitations and applications with multiple PDs/PIs.
- NIEHS has posted an amendment to the Children's Centers RFAs which adds changes to eligibility, funding, community involvement, and other sections of the RFA.
- Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers: Formative Centers (with NIEHS) - Open:: January 21, 2009 - Closing: April 30, 2009 - Closed
- NIEHS has posted an amendment to the Children's Centers RFAs which adds information about page limitations and applications with multiple PDs/PIs.
- NIEHS has posted an amendment to the Children's Centers RFAs which adds changes to eligibility, funding, community involvement, and other sections of the RFA.
- Enhancing Ecosystem Services From Agricultural Lands: Management, Quantification, And Developing Decision Support Tools - Open: February 25, 2009 - Closing: May 26, 2009
- Joint US – UK Research Program: Environmental Behavior, Bioavailability and Effects of Manufactured Nanomaterials - US EPA and UK ENI - Open: March, 31 2009 - Closing: August 5, 2009
- Biotechnology and Food Allergy (joint initiative with NIAID) - Opens June 2009
Special Announcements
Special Announcements
- SBIR Phase I - HTML | PDF (68 pp, 279 K, about PDF) | MS Word - Open: March 19, 2009 - Closing: May 20, 2009
- 7th Annual P3 Awards: People Prosperity and the Planet - Opens August 2009
- 2010 EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowships for Graduate Environmental Study - Opens July 2009
- Fall 2010 EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study - Opens: September 2009
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