Assistance program
Financial Assistance For Community Support Activities To Address Environmental Justice Issues
$316,766 committed in FY2023–FY2025
- Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 66.614
- What it does
- The objective of this program is to provide financial assistance to eligible entities to support community engagement and capacity building efforts and activities to facilitate the ability of community members, residents, and organizations to advocate for themselves and take related actions to advance environmental justice efforts to improve the environment, climate, and public health in their communities. EPA relies on communities for on the ground advice, input and expertise to address environmental justice, environmental, climate, and public health issues and the awards under this program will facilitate these efforts. The primary goals of this program are therefore to strengthen the ability of communities, community members/residents, and community organizations to identify, understand and address the environmental justice, environmental, climate, and public health issues and challenges they face, ensure that different perspectives are considered in governmental decision-making processes related to these issues, and enhance the ability of communities and their members to address past, current, and future environmental justice, environmental, climate, and public health challenges to improve their environmental conditions.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants include state and local governments and the Freely Associated States. Please note, however, that for awards funded using Clean Air Act (CAA) 138 authority, eligible entities are a partnership between an Indian tribe, a local government or an institution of higher education and a community-based nonprofit organization; a community-based nonprofit organization; a partnership of community-based nonprofit organizations.
- Authorized by
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act
- Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act
- Solid Waste Disposal Act
- Safe Drinking Water Act
- Toxic Substances Control Act
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
- EPA's Appropriation Acts
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
- Program site
- https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice ↗
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