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EPA ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SMALL GRANTS

Release Date: 01/29/1999
Contact Information: Peyton Fleming, EPA Press Office (617-918-1008)

BOSTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice is accepting grant applications for environmental justice small grants. The application deadline is March 5, 1999.

The grants are designed to provide financial assistance to eligible community groups - for example, grassroots organizations, churches, federally-recognized tribal governments or other non-profit groups - that are involved in projects to address environmental justice issues. Preference will be given to community-based organizations that are working on local solutions to local environmental problems.

The ceiling for any one grant is $20,000 for Superfund-related applications and $15,000 for all other types of applications. EPA's New England Office has a total of about $160,000 to issue in grants this year, of which $100,000 will be available exclusively for Superfund-related applications. Grants will be awarded in late summer.

Workshops on the small justice grants will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Feb. 2, at the Salvation Army Gym, 121 Cedar St., Manchester, N.H.; 9 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, Feb. 9, at the Thomas O'Neill Jr. Federal Building, 10 Causeway St., Boston, MA; and from 9 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, Feb. 10, at the Bay State Medical Center, 79 Chestnut St., Springfield, MA.

A series of teleconference calls on the grant applciation process will be held over the first two weeks of February. For information on those calls, contact EPA's Ronnie Harrington at 617-918-1709.

For more information about applying for an Environmental Justice Small Grants, organizations should contact Mrs. Harrington or Lugardy Raymond at 617-918-1709. They can also be contacted through the Internet at harrington.veronica@epa.gov or raymond.lugardy@epa.gov. Organizations can download application guidance from EPA's website at http://es.epa.gov/oeca/oej/99rfa.pdf.