Friday, April 08, 2005

[Grants] Request for Applications FY '05 Source Reduction Assistance Program Notice for the Eight Regional Pollution Prevention Program Offices Funding Opportunity Description. Eight of EPA's ten Regional Pollution Prevention (P2) Program offices expect to have approximately $163,000 available, per region, in fiscal year 2005, to fund projects supporting source reduction, pollution prevention and/or resource conservation activities.1 Two of the ten EPA Regions (Regions 1 and 2) are developing their own assistance agreement notices and will not be awarding grants or cooperative agreements through this announcement.2  Regional Project Objectives. Listed below are the projects that each region will consider through this SRA program announcement. Any proposed projects submitted outside of what is listed by the region will be rejected. Region 3 Source reduction and pollution prevention, Product stewardship, Design for the environment and green manufacturing Environmentally preferable purchasing (includes post-consumer content), green building research and development (includes reuse of construction and demolition materials, low impact development projects), Reducing environmental exposure to sensitive populations (e.g., pesticides, asbestos, radon and harmful food exposures), Energy conservation and innovation including renewable energy resource development (e.g., Energy Star, Green Energy, solar, wind, geothermal) and reduction of energy production emissions, Voluntary pollution prevention incentives to reduce air toxics, Development and implementation of environmental management systems, Environmental assistance activities, Community revitalization, Minimization of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals, Minimization of priority chemicals (e.g., lead & lead compounds, mercury, naphthalene, Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PAHs), cadmium, and brominated flame retardants), and Continuing development of EPA Region 3 expertise in preventive approaches, innovative technologies and sustainability. Region 4 Support of waste reduction efforts by retiree programs, Support P2 efforts in Resource Conservation Challenge, Projects that develop P2 BMPs for Clean Air Act regionally selected area source category, and Support of the Waste Reduction Resource Center (Region’s P2 Technical Support Center). Region 5 Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E), Greening the Supply Network (GSN), Hazardous Air Pollutant (HAP) source reduction practices, P2 measurement methods, Consolidating energy efficiency into process improvement assessments, and Improving coordination of the Great Lakes Regional Roundtable. Region 6 Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E), Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP), Greening Government or Supply Chain, Performance Track, P2 based environmental management systems, Developing Pollution Prevention projects of interest to states, regions, and/or federally-recognized tribal governments. Region 7 Agriculture, Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemical reduction, Toxicity reduction, Waste reduction, Energy conservation, and Water conservation. Region 8 Pollution prevention and environmental management systems, Source reduction and recycling, Energy Star/energy efficiency, Pollution prevention projects of interest to states, regions and/or Federally recognized Tribal governments, and Continuing development of EPA Region 8 expertise in preventive approaches, innovative technologies and sustainability. Region 9 Source reduction and product stewardship, Design for the environment and green manufacturing, Environmentally preferable purchasing, green building research and development, Reducing environmental exposure to sensitive populations, Reduction of hazardous air pollutants, Environmental assistance activities, Minimization of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals, Development or support of community-based technical assistance approaches for toxics reduction, and Environmental information for consumers. Region 10 Facilitation and support of the network of pollution prevention technical assistance providers, Environmentally preferable purchasing, including renewable energy certificate market development projects, and Developing pollution prevention projects of interest to states, regions and/or federally-recognized tribal governments. 4:02:14 PM Google It!    [Grants] Research to Stimulate Assessment of Virulence of Waterborne Pathogens Application due date: May 23, 2005 USEPA is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement to carry out laboratory and theoretical studies to improve the understanding of microbial virulence and the use of virulence factors and/or virulence factor activity relationships (VFARs) in characterizing currently recognized pathogens, or identifying future emerging pathogens. 3:58:03 PM Google It!    [Schools] Study: Pollution Worse Inside School Buses Than Out Children riding on school buses are breathing in more pollution than people standing out on the streets, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. [Source: Reuters] 3:55:31 PM Google It!    [Clean cars] Clean Cars: They Said it Couldn’t be Done What the world’s automakers refused to do in California they readily agreed to in Canada. On April 5, a who’s who of big carmakers signed a voluntary agreement to build much cleaner automobiles for the Canadian market, avoiding the emission of more than 5.3 megatons of greenhouse gases by 2010. When faced with the same prospect in California, they called their lawyers. By Jim Motavalli [Source: E: The Environmental Magazine] 3:54:02 PM Google It!    [Management] Ancient Wisdom: Leave the Decisions Up to Individuals The Idea: Open Space offers a process for decision making that is the exact opposite of that used in most Western organizations: A collective understanding emerges from conversations, and individuals are then entrusted to decide what should be done. [How to Save the World] 3:41:17 PM Google It!

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