MASTER LIST: Upcoming Major BIL and IRA Funding Announcements

As of March 1, 2023

Below is an overview of current and upcoming funding opportunities from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). We
encourage you to check this page frequently as updates will be posted regularly. Competition opening dates represent our current best projections. They are

provided for planning purposes but subject to further revision.

Law

Opportunity*

Funding
($)" &Type

Eligible Applicants

Opening
Date"

Closing Date"

Summary

Region 8
Contact

IRA

Funding to
Address Air
Pollution
through
Community Air
Pollution
Monitoring
Projects (Sec.
60105)1

$30M
Grant

competition

Community-based nonprofit
organizations, state and local
governments, and Tribal
governments.

132 projects
funded in
Nov. 2022
with $30M
from IRA
and $20M
from other
funds

Varies

Funds to invest in a range of
activities that will increase
monitoring in and by communities.

Emily Bertram

(bertram.emilv

(Sepa.gov)

Adam Eisele

(eisele.adam(®

eoa.gov)

IRA

Environmental

Justice

Collaborative

Problem-Solving

Cooperative

Agreement

Program (EJCPS)

$30M
Grant

Competition

Community-based nonprofits
and/or partnership of community-
based nonprofits are eligible to
apply.

Jan 2023

April 10, 2023

rovides funding for eligible
pplicants for projects that address
>cal environmental and public health
sues within an effected community,
he program assists recipients in
uilding collaborative partnerships to
elpthem understand and address
nvironmental and public health
Dncerns in their communities.

April Nowak

(nowak.april(®

eoa.gov)

1 This is the first of several grant awards that will be made to distribute $235.5 million in IRA funds under Sec. 60105 across several programs including the following subsections:
(a) Fenceline Air Monitoring and Screening Air Monitoring; (b) Multipollutant Monitoring Stations; (c) Air Quality Sensors in Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities; (d)
Emissions from Wood Heaters; (e) Methane Monitoring; (g) Greenhouse Gas and Zero-Emission Standards for Mobile Sources. Future detail will be shared at a later date on
future competitions.

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Law

Opportunity*

Funding
($)** &Type

Eligible Applicants

Opening
Date

Closing Date"

Summary

Region 8
Contact

IRA

Environmental
Justice

Government-to-
Government
(EJG2G)

Program

$70M

($40M from

IRA + $30M

from

baseline

appropriatio

ns)

Grant

Competition

Partnership between states, tribes,
or local governments and
community-based nonprofit
organizations. Territories, Freely
Associated States, and tribal
governments in remote areas are
also eligible to apply.

Jan 2023

April 10, 2023

Provides funding at the state, local,
territorial, and tribal level to
support government activities that
lead to measurable environmental
or public health impacts in
communities disproportionately
burdened by environmental harms.

April Nowak
(nowak.april(®
eoa.gov)

IRA

Clean Air Act
Grants (IRA Sec.
60105(f)

$25M

Non-
competitive

Air pollution control agencies as
defined by the Clean Air Act, which
includes states, local governments,
and Tribal agencies responsible for
the control of air pollution.

Feb 15,
2023

April 15, 2023

Supplements annual funding for air
pollution control agencies in
support of Clean Air Act Section
103.

Emily Bertram

(bertram.emilv

(Sepa.gov)

Marisa

McPhilliamy

(mcphilliamv.m

arisa(®epa.gov)

IRA

Environmental
Justice Thriving
Communities
Grantmaking
Program

$550M
Grant

Competition

Community-based nonprofit
organizations, a partnership of
community-based nonprofits, a
partnership between a Tribe and a
community-based nonprofit, and a
partnership between an institute
of higher education and a
community-based nonprofit.

Feb 2023

May 2023

This competitive pass-through
program will select multiple pass-
through entities to provide grant
funds via sub-awards to
community-based nonprofit
organizations and other eligible
sub-recipient groups representing
under-served and disadvantaged
communities. EPA intends to award
5-11 cooperative agreements under
this RFA.

April Nowak
(nowak.april(®
epa.gov)

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Law

Opportunity*

Funding
($)** &Type

Eligible Applicants

Opening
Date

Closing Date"

Summary

Region 8
Contact

BIL

Pollution
Prevention (P2)
Grants

$16M
Grant

Competition

States, state entities (colleges and
universities recognized as
instrumentalities of the state), the
District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin
Islands, the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, any territory or
possession of the U.S., and
federally recognized tribes and
intertribal consortia.

Feb 2023

Summer 2023

Pollution Prevention (P2) grants
provide technical assistance to
recipients to support businesses
and help them develop and adopt
source reduction practices (also
known as "pollution prevention" or
"P2"). P2 means reducing or
eliminating pollutants from
entering any waste stream or
otherwise released into the
environment prior to recycling,
treatment, or disposal.

Melissa Payan

(pavan.melissa

(Seoa.gov)

BIL

Emerging
Contaminants
for Small or
Disadvantaged
Communities

$1.89B
(2022/2023)

Non-
competitive
allocation to
states

covering the
first two (of
five) years
of funding

States, territories

(Tribal application to follow with
separate timeline)

February
2023

(Deadline
for states &
territories)

August 2023

(Deadline for states
& territories)

This $5 billion program provides
grants to public water systems in
small or disadvantaged
communities to address emerging
contaminants, including PFAS for
scoping, planning, testing and
remediating emerging
contaminants in drinking and
source water. For each year of
appropriations, 2% is allocated for
tribal funding.

Karen Simpson
(simpson.karen
(Seoa.gov)

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Law

Opportunity*

Funding
($)** &Type

Eligible Applicants

Opening
Date

Closing Date"

Summary

Region 8
Contact

IRA

Climate
Pollution
Reduction -
Planning Grants

$250M

Non-
competitive
allocation

States, territories, DC, certain
MSAs, air pollution control
agencies, Tribes (or groups of the
above) are eligible.

As early as
March 1,
2023

Notice of Intent to
Participate due

March 31, 2023 for
states and April 28,
2023 for
Metropolitan
Statistical Areas
(MSA)

Application/workpl

an due April 28,
2023 for states,
May 31, 2023 for
MSA and June 15,
2023 for

Tribes/Territories.

Planning grants
likely awarded by

summer 2023 for all
grantees.

Grants to develop climate action
plans. This is the first stage of the
Climate Pollution Reduction Grants
Program.

Emily Bertram

(bertram.emilv

(Seoa.gov)

BIL

FY23 Clean
School Bus
Grant

Competition

TBD
Grant

Competition

Public school districts, public
charter schools, government
entities that provide bus service,
eligible contractors that sell or
finance clean school buses,
nonprofit school transportation
associations, Tribes

April 2023

TBD

Funding to replace diesel buses
with electric and cleaner
alternatives.

Marisa

McPhilliamy

(mcphilliamv.m

arisa(®epa.gov)

YeChan Lim

(lim.vechan(®e

pa.gov)

BIL

Underground
Injection
Control - Class
VI wells

$50M

Non-
competitive
allocation

States/ territories/ tribes with
Class VI primacy.

April 2023

August 2023

Supports development and
implementation of UIC Class VI
primacy programs, which regulate
the geologic sequestration of C02
into UIC Class VI wells. EPA will
award the full $50 million in a one-
time, non-competitive distribution.

Fraser Evans

(evans.fraser(®

epa.gov)

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Law

Opportunity*

Funding
($)** &Type

Eligible Applicants

Opening
Date

Closing Date"

Summary

Region 8
Contact

BIL

Brownfields Job
Training Grants

TBD

Local government entities, States,
Tribes, nonprofit organizations.

May 2023

July 2023

Grants to enable nonprofits, local
governments, and other
organizations to recruit, train, and
place unemployed and under-
employed residents of areas
affected by the presence of
brownfield sites. Job Training
Program graduates develop the
skills needed to secure full-time,
sustainable employment in various
aspects of hazardous and solid
waste management and within the
larger environmental field,
including sustainable cleanup and
reuse, and chemical safety.

Christina

Michaud-Tilly

(michaudtillv.c

hristine(®epa.g

ov)

IRA

Environmental
& Climate
Justice Thriving
Communities
Block Grant

Up to $2B

TBD

Summer
2023

TBD

Provides EPA with approximately
$2.8 billion for ECJ program grants
and technical assistance. This
program is currently in design and
deliberative stages with an RFI
scheduled to go out in February
2023.

April Nowak

(nowak.april(®

epa.gov)

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Law

Opportunity*

Funding
($)** &Type

Eligible Applicants

Opening
Date

Closing Date"

Summary

Region 8
Contact

IRA

Greenhouse Gas
Reduction Fund

$7B

competition
and $19.97
competition

$7B competition: Eligible
applicants include States,
municipalities, Tribal governments,
and nonprofit "eligible recipients"
as defined in the statute (nonprofit
financial lenders).

$19.97B competition: Only
nonprofit "eligible recipients" as
defined in the statute (nonprofit
financial lenders) are eligible to be
direct funding recipients. EPA will
clarify this eligibility in the NOFO.

Early

Summer

2023

Late Summer 2023

The Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Fund will be implemented via two
grant competitions. One grant
competition will be $7B for
financing and technical assistance
for residential and community solar
and associated storage and
upgrades to facilitate these
projects. This full funding will be for
low-income and disadvantaged
communities. The $19.97B
competition will provide financing
and technical assistance for
projects that reduce greenhouse
gas emissions and other air
pollution. $8B is reserved for low-
income and disadvantaged
communities. Additional program
design decisions will be clarified in
the competition that will launch in
early summer 2023.

Emily Bertram

(bertram.emilv

(Seoa.gov)

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Law

Opportunity*

Funding
($)** &Type

Eligible Applicants

Opening
Date

Closing Date"

Summary

Region 8
Contact

IRA

Climate
Pollution
Reduction -
Implementation
Grants

$4.6B

Competitive
grants

Entities included in, or covered by,
planning grants. This includes (1)
state agencies, municipalities, air
pollution control agencies, and
tribes who either receive a direct
planning grant or who partner on a
climate plan developed with a
planning grant, but did not receive
direct federal funds; (2)
municipalities and air pollution
control agencies seeking funding
for measures identified in their
state's plan for implementation at
their level; and (3) tribes seeking
funding for measures identified in
their neighboring state's plan for
implementation at their level.

Fall 2023
(tentative)

Q1 of Calendar Year
2024 (tentative)

The second stage of the Climate
Pollution Reduction Grant Program:
$4.6B for grants to implement
measures identified in plans
developed with planning grants.

Emily Bertram

(bertram.emilv

(Seoa.gov)

BIL

FY23 Clean
School Bus
Rebate
Competition

TBD

Rebate
competition

Public school districts, public
charter schools, government
entities that provide bus service,
eligible contractors that sell or
finance clean school buses,
nonprofit school transportation
associations, Tribes.

Fall 2023

TBD

Provides funding to replace diesel
buses with electric and cleaner
alternatives. EPA expects to launch
another rebate competition in Fall
2023.

Marisa

McPhilliamy

(mcphilliamv.m

arisa(®epa.gov)

YeChan Lim

(lim.vechan(®e

pa.gov)

Notes:

* Table includes abridged overview of BIL/IRA funding opportunities. Refer to the White House BIL Guidebook and the White House IRA Guidebook for complete
version of program descriptions, funding amounts, period of availability, eligible recipients / uses, etc.

** Funding amounts and deadlines are tentative and subject to change, v

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