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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): State Environmental Justice Cooperative Agreements Program (SEJCA) EPA-OECA-OEJ-09-01
Internal Competition Completed
Principal Investigators Selected:
- Sergei Bavykin, Senior Research Specialist, Pharmacology, College of Medicine
Program Summary
The purpose of this new cooperative agreement initiative from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) is specifically to support/produce model state activities that lead to measurable environmental or public health results in communities disproportionately burdened by environmental harms and risks by leveraging or utilizing the existing resources or assets of state agencies. The State Environmental Justice Cooperative Agreements Program (SEJCA) initiative goals are to:
- achieve measurable and meaningful environmental and/or public health results in communities;
- build broad and robust, results-oriented partnerships, particularly with community organizations within affected area;
- pilot activities in specific communities that create models, which can be expanded or replicated in other geographic areas;
- reinforce connections to EPA Regional Environmental Justice (EJ) Action Plan and state's participation in the design and implementation of EPA EJ Action Plan activities; and
- strengthen the development and implementation of specific approaches to achieve environmental justice.
- state information;
- state leadership;
- state results;
- relationships between delegated programs and state environmental justice policies; and
- state targeting of disproportionately burdened areas.
The proposed project must be designed to address environmental and public health issues covered by the laws implemented by EPA. Each project must include activities that are authorized under two or more of the cited federal environmental statutes. The two or more environmental statutes that are involved in the applicant's project must be clearly and precisely identified in their narrative. Any failure to clearly and conclusively identify and cite the statutes in the narrative shall result in the project not being eligible. The following are the federal environmental statutes:
- Clean Water Act, Section 104(b)(3)
- Safe Drinking Water Act, Section 1442(c)(3)(C)
- Solid Waste Disposal Act, Section 8001(a)
- Clean Air Act, Section 103(b)(3)
- Toxic Substances Control Act, Section 10(a)
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Section 20(a)
- Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act, Section 203
The following is a list of some, but not all activities which may be considered for funding:
- Research, assessment and data collection
- Tool development
- Training
- Measurement
- Outreach
- Staffing support
For most States, the major areas that should be considered are: air quality, drinking water, local surface water and groundwater, waste disposal, and risks in the indoor environment including schools. Environmental risks and impacts that are worth considering include: lead, pesticides and radon in homes, businesses that use or release hazardous chemicals, the use and disposal of hazardous chemicals in the home and schools. The proposal narrative should articulate how this will be done.
The financial assistance obtained through this solicitation will be awarded as a three-year cooperative agreement. The total estimated funding expected for all awards under this solicitation is approximately $800,000 for FY 2009. EPA anticipates the award of approximately five (5) cooperative agreements in the amount of $160,000 per award, with no more than one award per EPA Region. The SEJCA initiative is expected to be very competitive.
UIC is restricted to one application.
Additional Information
http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/publications/ej/grants/rfa-state-grant-2-12-09.pdf
Deadlines
| UIC Internal Letter of Intent (mandatory) | March 5, 2009 |
| UIC Internal Competition | TBD |
| Sponsor Full Proposals | April 10, 2009 |
Letter of Intent Instructions
- By submitting this form, applicant attests that s/he has read and meets the sponsor's eligibility criteria for this program. The LOI can be emailed to RDS@uic.edu, Attn: Chang Lee.
- OVCR may reserve submission slots for previously submitted but unfunded proposals that received highly competitive ratings from the external sponsor. These will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis by the Vice Chancellor. For consideration, scanned copies of your complete reviews (not just summary) must be included with LOI.
LOI form: http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/funding/forms/0600.doc
Depending upon the number of LOIs submitted, OVCR might be required to facilitate an internal peer review process to select UIC’s submission(s) to this program. White paper instructions will be issued to those submitting LOIs, if necessary.
Please contact Chang Lee at clee10@uic.edu or 6-1961 with any questions.
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