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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extended the deadline to apply to the $30 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for restoration projects that advance environmental justice in underserved and overburdened communities across the Great
Lakes. The Great Lakes Environmental Justice Grant Program will fund implementation of environmental protection and restoration projects that will further the goals of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) in communities with environmental justice
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">EPA will consider applications from potential principal recipients interested in setting up Great Lakes Environmental Justice Grant Programs
to fund environmental restoration and protection work on a Basin-wide basis or on a smaller, more localized basis. Projects funded through this program must improve the environmental health of the Great Lakes or Great Lakes watersheds through a variety of
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<li><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">restoring, enhancing, or protecting habitat;</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white;"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">reducing non-point source runoff through, e.g., green infrastructure, riparian restoration, shoreline stabilization, or other stormwater/nutrient
reduction practices that will improve water quality;</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white;"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">connecting aquatic resources, e.g., dam removals, culvert replacements, etc.;</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white;"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">controlling or preventing invasive species; and</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white;"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">providing hands-on, place-based environmental educational opportunities in the Great Lakes Basin.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white;"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">EPA intends to award the principal recipient(s) up to $20 million in funding to create a broad, basin-wide Great Lakes Environmental Justice
Grant Program and up to $10 million in funding to create the more localized Great Lakes Environmental Justice Grant Programs.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white;"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">ELIGIBILITY: Qualifying non-profit organizations, institutions of higher learning (i.e., colleges and universities, including minority-serving institutions),
state agencies, interstate agencies, federally recognized Indian Tribes and tribal organizations, and local governments are eligible to apply as principal recipients.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">APPLICATION PERIOD: Deadline September 15, 2023.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">For more information and to apply:
</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Learn more about the Great Lakes Environmental Justice Grant Program and the request for applications: https://www.epa.gov/great-lakes-funding/great-lakes-restoration-initiative-fy-2023-request-applications-rfa-create</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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