Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program for States and Territories - FY 2023
| Agency: | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
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| Office: | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
| Multipart Grant: | No |
| Next Due: | 12/15/2022 (Notice of Intent to Apply) |
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| Solicitation Date: | Unknown |
| Match Required: | No |
| Actual Funds: | $30,000,000 (Confirmed) |
Summary:
The purpose of this program is to support the implementation of strategies to improve post-consumer materials management and infrastructure, and improve local post-consumer materials management and recycling programs. Funding will support states and territories to improve post-consumer materials management programs through planning, data collection, and the implementation of plans.
Eligible activities include:
- Developing or updating plans to advance post-consumer materials management, including solid waste management plans for Title 40, Part 256 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) or other planning documents, such as circular economy plans
- Developing, strengthening, and/or implementing comprehensive data collection efforts, including statewide data collection efforts or other targeted waste characterization studies, that demonstrate progress toward the national recycling goal and the food loss and waste reduction goal as well as other national and state recycling and/or circular economy goals
- Supporting the state-led implementation of plans to advance post-consumer materials management
Optional webinars are scheduled for this program. Refer to the Application section for details.
Last Updated: October 02, 2023
Eligibility Notes:
Eligible applicants are:
- States, including the District of Columbia
- U.S. territories, including American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
The notice of intent to participate (NOIP) must be submitted by an official within the governor’s office, the director of the designated agency, or other authorized official.
FY 2023 award recipients include:
- Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (Salem, OR)
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (Albany, NY)
- Georgia Environmental Protection Division (Atlanta, GA)
- Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (Phoenix, AZ)
- Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (Austin, TX)
Refer to the Award file for additional information regarding FY 2023 award recipients through this program.
Eligible Applicants:
State GovernmentApplication Notes:
Mandatory notices of intent to participate (NOIPs) must be received by December 15, 2022.
NOIPs must be emailed to the address provided in the Contact section and to the appropriate regional representative of the funding agency listed on pages 2-3 of the NOFA file.
The contents of the NOIP will become available upon initiation of the submission process. The funding agency has sent a NOIP template to eligible states and territories that may be used for submission.
Optional webinars for this program are scheduled as follows:
Program and NOIP Overview Webinars:
November 29, 2022
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET
December 1, 2022
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET
Program Guidance and Workplan Webinars:
December 19, 2022
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET
January 3, 2023
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET
Additional information regarding the webinars scheduled for this program will be posted online at www.epa.gov/rcra/state-and-territory-grants.
Refer to the NOFA file for additional application information.
| Match Required: | No |
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| Actual Funds: | $30,000,000 (Confirmed) |
Match Notes:
There are no stated matching requirements for this program.
Funding Notes:
A total of $30 million is available to support awards through this program.
For FY 2023, 56 awards were provided through this program. Refer to the Award file for details.
Contacts:
Program Staff
SWIFR@epa.gov
Agency Address
Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20460
Contact Notes:
Questions should be directed to the program staff, or to the appropriate regional representative of the funding agency listed on pages 2-3 of the NOFA file.
Notices of intent to participate (NOIPs) must be emailed to the address provided and to the appropriate regional representative of the funding agency.
The agency address provided is for reference purposes only.
Files:
NOFA File: US17825_NOFA_FY2023.pdf (192.8 Kb)Award File: US17825_Award_FY2023.pdf (201.1 Kb)
File Notes:
The NOFA file contains general program information and notice of intent to participate NOIP guidelines. The Award file contains information on FY 2023 award recipients.
October 2, 2023
Information regarding awards through this program has been released and attached as the Award file. A brief summary of the awards has been added to the Financial section, and a sample of award recipients has been added to the Eligibility section.
| Project: | Georgia Post-Consumer Materials Management Study and Report (1.2 Mb) |
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| Applicant: | Georgia Environmental Protection Division |
| Summary: |
The purpose of this program is to support the implementation of strategies to improve post-consumer materials management and infrastructure and improve local post-consumer materials management and recycling programs. Georgia Environmental Protection Division requested $713,380 to procure a contractor in order to conduct a statewide data collection effort to develop a report for Georgia’s Regional Commissions and local governments to incorporate strategies to advance post-consumer materials management in solid waste management planning. The report will analyze post-consumer materials samples taken from permitted solid waste-handling facilities, including landfills, materials recovery facilities (MRFs), compost and anaerobic digestion operations, shredding, baling, and other general processing operations, and from other non-permitted material recovery operations. |
Grant Keywords
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Recycling & ReuseSolid Waste