Enhanced Air Quality Monitoring for Communities
Funding Agency:
- Environmental Protection Agency
The scope of work described in this section applies to all the funding available under this competition. EPA is soliciting applications from eligible entities, as described in Section III.A., for projects designed to monitor air pollutants of greatest concern in communities with disproportionate and adverse health outcomes. EPA’s objective in issuing these awards is to enable communities to monitor their own air quality and to promote monitoring partnerships between communities and tribal, state, and/or local governments that:
• Leverage existing air quality monitoring expertise;
• Expand use of community monitoring advisory groups and other approaches that give the community a voice in the monitoring of their air quality; and
• Build a foundation of trusting relationships and enhanced understanding from which sustainable solutions to community air pollution problems can be found.
Applications should include detailed, well thought-out projects for enhancing air quality monitoring, including but not limited to: building capacity and knowledge of local-scale, realtime air quality; measuring levels of certain air pollutants; collecting data in situations where there is persistent and complex air pollution (e.g., wildfires); or advancing air monitoring system resiliency.
INFORMATION SESSION: EPA will host a webinar to discuss this RFA. Participants will have the opportunity to have their questions answered by EPA in a public forum. Pre-registration is not required. Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST More Information: https://www.epa.gov/grants/enhanced-air-quality-monitoringcommunities Approximately one week after the information session, EPA will post the webinar recording and slides
on https://www.epa.gov/grants/enhanced-air-quality-monitoring-communities.
January 11, 2022 INFORMATION SESSION
February 18, 2022 LAST DAY TO SUBMIT QUESTIONS
Grant or Cooperative Contract; EPA anticipates awarding approximately 20-30 assistance agreements ranging in value from $25,000 to $100,000 (i.e., “Small Grants”) and 30-40 assistance agreements ranging in value from $100,001-$500,000 (i.e., “Large Grants”).
$20,000,000
February 25, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. (ET)
Tim Roberts EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation AirMonitoring@epa.gov