Pollution Prevention Grants Program

$71.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026

Agency: Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency
Assistance: Project Grants
CFDA number: 66.708
What it does: The P2 grant program was enacted under the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 to: 1) Provide technical assistance (e.g., information, training and tools) to businesses/facilities on source reduction/P2 techniques to help them adopt and implement source reduction/P2 approaches that may increase the development, adoption, and market penetration of sustainable manufacturing and processing practices and greener products. 2) Identify, develop, document, and share source reduction/P2 best management practices and innovations so the information generated may inform future technical assistance and encourage practices and innovations that may be replicated by others. The technical assistance provided must use P2/source reduction techniques to reduce and/or eliminate pollution from air, water and/or land prior to performing recycling, reuse, clean up or disposal activities. The P2 grant program funds may be awarded as grants and/or cooperative agreements. Funding provided by the Infrastructure Investment and Job Act (IIJA) for FY2022-2026 affords the P2 program the ability to further support P2 technical assistance to businesses. Updated information on these programs is on EPAâ€™s Grant Program for Pollution Prevention website: https://www.epa.gov/p2/grant-programs-pollution-prevention. In FY 2025, the P2 will continue to: 1. Help businesses adopt P2 techniques into day-to-day operations to reduce or eliminate harmful pollutants from entering the air, water or land 2. Encourage education and/or training in P2/source reduction techniques. 3. Support P2 information sharing among states, state and federally-recognized tribal entities (e.g., state/tribal colleges/universities), federally-recognized tribes, local technical assistance programs, businesses, and industry. Additional funding priorities are found in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) specific to each P2 grant program.
Who benefits: Eligible applicants under this program are State agencies, State colleges and universities that are instrumentalities of the State and federally-recognized Tribes. These eligible applicants are encouraged to establish partnerships with businesses and environmental assistance providers to deliver seamless P2 assistance. Over the years, the P2 Program has found that the most successful P2 grant applicants are those that make the most efficient use of their government funding. In many cases, this has been accomplished through securing grant partnerships. As a result, those who are eligible to apply directly for P2 grant funding can also provide P2 benefits to their grant partners and grant beneficiaries, which include, but are not limited to: States, interstate, intrastate, and local agencies or organizations/universities, federally-recognized Tribes, intertribal consortia, public or private nonprofit organizations/institutions, private businesses, trade associations, student interns (within undergraduate and graduate programs), quasi public nonprofit organizations, schools and the general public.

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* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.

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Pollution Prevention Grants Program

$71.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026

Agency: Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency
Assistance: Project Grants
CFDA number: 66.708
What it does: The P2 grant program was enacted under the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 to: 1) Provide technical assistance (e.g., information, training and tools) to businesses/facilities on source reduction/P2 techniques to help them adopt and implement source reduction/P2 approaches that may increase the development, adoption, and market penetration of sustainable manufacturing and processing practices and greener products. 2) Identify, develop, document, and share source reduction/P2 best management practices and innovations so the information generated may inform future technical assistance and encourage practices and innovations that may be replicated by others. The technical assistance provided must use P2/source reduction techniques to reduce and/or eliminate pollution from air, water and/or land prior to performing recycling, reuse, clean up or disposal activities. The P2 grant program funds may be awarded as grants and/or cooperative agreements. Funding provided by the Infrastructure Investment and Job Act (IIJA) for FY2022-2026 affords the P2 program the ability to further support P2 technical assistance to businesses. Updated information on these programs is on EPAâ€™s Grant Program for Pollution Prevention website: https://www.epa.gov/p2/grant-programs-pollution-prevention. In FY 2025, the P2 will continue to: 1. Help businesses adopt P2 techniques into day-to-day operations to reduce or eliminate harmful pollutants from entering the air, water or land 2. Encourage education and/or training in P2/source reduction techniques. 3. Support P2 information sharing among states, state and federally-recognized tribal entities (e.g., state/tribal colleges/universities), federally-recognized tribes, local technical assistance programs, businesses, and industry. Additional funding priorities are found in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) specific to each P2 grant program.
Who benefits: Eligible applicants under this program are State agencies, State colleges and universities that are instrumentalities of the State and federally-recognized Tribes. These eligible applicants are encouraged to establish partnerships with businesses and environmental assistance providers to deliver seamless P2 assistance. Over the years, the P2 Program has found that the most successful P2 grant applicants are those that make the most efficient use of their government funding. In many cases, this has been accomplished through securing grant partnerships. As a result, those who are eligible to apply directly for P2 grant funding can also provide P2 benefits to their grant partners and grant beneficiaries, which include, but are not limited to: States, interstate, intrastate, and local agencies or organizations/universities, federally-recognized Tribes, intertribal consortia, public or private nonprofit organizations/institutions, private businesses, trade associations, student interns (within undergraduate and graduate programs), quasi public nonprofit organizations, schools and the general public.