Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act Grant Opportunities with Region 8 Contacts
As of April 15, 2024
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.
Upcoming Major BIL and IRA Funding Announcements with Region 8 Contacts (pdf)
| Funding Source/Law | Opportunity* |
Funding |
Eligible Applicants | Opening Date** | Closing Date** | Summary | Region 8 Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inflation Reduction Act | Environmental & Climate Justice Community Community Change Grant Program | Up to $2 billion | A partnership between at least two community-based non-profit organizations (CBOs); OR A partnership between a CBO and one or any combination of the following:
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November 2023 | Applications accepted on a rolling basis through November 21, 2024 | EPA’s new Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants program (Community Change Grants) will invest approximately $2 billion dollars in Inflation Reduction Act funds in environmental and climate justice activities to benefit disadvantaged communities through projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience, and build community capacity to respond to environmental and climate justice challenges. These place-based investments will be focused on community-driven initiatives to be responsive to community and stakeholder input. | David Dorian (dorian.david.i@epa.gov) |
| Inflation Reduction Act | Climate Pollution Reduction Grants - Implementation Grants - Competition for Tribes and Territories | $300 million | Eligible applicants are: (1) Lead organizations for tribal CPRG planning grants; (2) Other tribal agencies, departments, or other tribal government offices or tribal consortia; (3) Lead organizations for CPRG planning grants for one of the territories covered by CPRG (American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands); (4) Other territorial agencies, departments, or other territorial government offices; (5) Territorial municipal agencies, departments, or other territorial municipal government offices; (6) a coalition consisting of two or more eligible applicants described above. | September 20, 2023 |
May 1, 2024 |
The second stage of the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program: $4.6B for grants to implement measures identified in plans developed with planning grants. Competition is exclusively for tribes and territories. Tribes and territories may also apply to the General Competition (see above). |
Emily Bertram (bertram.emily@epa.gov) |
| Inflation Reduction Act | Grants to Reduce Air Pollution at Ports |
$3 billion |
Port authority; state, regional, local or tribal agency that has jurisdiction over a port authority or a port; air pollution control agency; private entity (including a nonprofit org) that applies for a grant in partnership with an entity described above and owns, operates, or uses the facilities, cargo-handling equip, transportation equipment, or related technology of a port. |
February 28, 2024 | May 28, 2024 | To purchase and install zero-emission port equipment and technology, conduct associated planning or permitting activities for this equipment and technology, and develop climate action plans to further address air pollution at ports. | Allison Reibach (reibach.allison@epa.gov) |
| Inflation Reduction Act | Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Inflation Reduction Act and National grants program | $1 billion |
(1) a state; (2) a municipality; (3) an Indian Tribe; (4) a nonprofit school transportation association; (5) eligible contractors, defined as a contractor that has the capacity, (A) to sell, lease, license, or contract for service zero-emission vehicles, or charging or other equipment needed to charge, fuel, or maintain zero-emission vehicles, to individuals or entities that own, lease, license, or contract for service an eligible vehicle; or (B) to arrange financing for such a sale, lease, license, or contract for service. | Fall 2024 | TBD | To provide funding to offset the costs of replacing heavy-duty Class 6 and 7 commercial vehicles with zero-emission vehicles; deploying infrastructure needed to charge, fuel, or maintain these ZEVs; and developing and training the necessary workforce. | Marisa McPhilliamy (mcphilliamy.marisa@epa.gov) |
| Bipartisan Infrastructure Law | FY24 Clean School Bus Rebate Competition | TBD | 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 2024 | TBD | Rebate competition for the replacement of diesel school buses with clean and zero emission school buses | YeChan Lim (lim.yechan@epa.gov) |
| Inflation Reduction Act | Air Monitoring Grants under the Inflation Reduction Act |
$81 million Non-competitive grants |
Air pollution control agencies currently involved in air monitoring activities that regularly receive Clean Air Act section 103 of 105 grants either annually or every few years. | February 16, 2024 |
May 31, 2024 (deadline extended from April 8) EPA encourages eligible air agencies to submit grant applications as soon as possible. |
These funds will supplement annual funding for air pollution control agencies in support of activities under Clean Air Act Section 103. The funds will support efforts by eligible air pollution control agencies to establish new ambient monitoring sites, and maintain, operate, or upgrade existing ambient air monitoring networks. Read more details about this program or review the IRA 60105 (a)(b) Grant Program Guidance (pdf) (449 KB) . | Adam Eisele (eisele.adam@epa.gov) |
| Inflation Reduction Act | Air Quality Sensor Grants under the Inflation Reduction Act |
$2 million Non-competitive grants |
Air pollution control agencies currently involved in air monitoring activities that regularly receive Clean Air Act section 103 of 105 grants either annually or every few years. | February 16, 2024 |
May 31, 2024 (deadline extended from April 8) EPA encourages eligible air agencies to submit grant applications as soon as possible. |
These funds will supplement annual funding for air pollution control agencies in support of activities under Clean Air Act Section 103. The funds will support efforts by eligible air pollution control agencies to establish new ambient monitoring sites, and maintain, operate, or upgrade existing ambient air monitoring networks. Read more details about this program or review the IRA 60105 (a)(b) Grant Program Guidance (pdf) (449 KB) . | Adam Eisele (eisele.adam@epa.gov) |
| Bipartisan Infrastructure Law | FY2024-25 Pollution Prevention Grant Program funded by BIL | $13.9 million | 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. | March 18, 2024 |
May 31, 2024 (deadline extended from April 8) EPA encourages eligible air agencies to submit grant applications as soon as possible. |
Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, grants for states and Tribes to provide business with technical assistance to help them develop and adopt P2 practices. Projects must fit within one of the six established NEAs: food and beverage manufacturing and processing; chemical manufacturing, processing and formulation; automotive manufacturing and maintenance; aerospace product and parts manufacturing and maintenance; metal manufacturing and fabrication; and Indian Country and Alaska native villages. | Melissa Payan (payan.melissa@epa.gov) |
| Base Funding | FY2024-25 Pollution Prevention Grant Program funded by base appropriations | $9.94 million | 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. | March 18, 2024 | May 17, 2024 | For states and Tribes to provide businesses with technical assistance to help them develop and adopt P2 practices. Projects must fit within one of the six established NEAs: food and beverage manufacturing and processing; chemical manufacturing, processing and formulation; automotive manufacturing and maintenance; aerospace product and parts manufacturing and maintenance; metal manufacturing and fabrication; and Indian Country and Alaska native villages. | Melissa Payan (payan.melissa@epa.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.