Grant call that might be interesting about how data from Toxic Substances
Release Inventory could be useful for Public Health and Risk communication.

Sara

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ECOS/EPA TRI PARTNERSHIP

2012 REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
1.  OVERVIEW
The Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) announces the availability of
funds and solicits proposals for projects that focus on: A. States and the
Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and B. TRI and environmental public health/risk
communication.  ECOS will award 2-3 grants to organizations interested in
exploring how TRI data is or can be utilized by the states and utilized for
public health and risk communication.

2.  BACKGROUND

ECOS is the national, non-profit, non-partisan association representing the
state and territorial environmental commissioners.  Its mission is to serve as
a champion for States; to provide a clearinghouse of information for state
environmental commissioners; to promote coordination in environmental
management; and to articulate to Congress, federal agencies and the public
state positions on environmental issues. ECOS is the fiscal and contract agent
for this scope of work.

The ECOS-EPA TRI Partnership provides key audiences with an opportunity to
attain a greater understanding of Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data and other
related data and information.  Under this partnership, the National Training
Conference on the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Environmental Conditions
in Communities serves as the primary nationwide TRI conference.  The public and
interested stakeholders hear the latest TRI information and take part in
discussing the dataset's uses and applications.  The ChemicalRight2Know.com
website provides current TRI information and resources along with a forum that
allows a wide range of users to share and discuss TRI information.  Webinars
provide a platform for information sharing and a collective focus on topics
related to TRI such as the use of TRI data in analyzing environmental justice.

3.  GRANT AWARD INFORMATION

It is anticipated that the TRI Mini Grant Program for 2012-2013 will award a
total of $30,000 to two-three grantees.

PROPOSAL DEADLINE

Proposals must be submitted by 11:59pm EST, September 6, 2012.  Late
applications will not be accepted.

ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS

Assistance under this announcement is generally available to states, the
District of Columbia, US territories (for example, American Samoa, Guam, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin
Islands), federally recognized Indian tribes, intertribal consortia of
federally recognized tribes, public and private colleges and universities, and
other public or private nonprofit organizations.  Profit-making firms are not
eligible to receive assistance agreements from this program.

Non-profit organization, as defined by OMB Circular A-122, located at 2 CFR Part
230, means any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other
organization which: (1) is operated primarily for scientific, educational,
service, charitable, or similar purposes in the public interest; (2) is not
organized primarily for profit; and (3) uses its net proceeds to maintain,
improve, and/or expand its operations. For this purpose, the term "non-profit
organization" excludes (i) colleges and universities; (ii) hospitals; (iii)
state, local, and federally-recognized Indian tribal governments; and (iv)
non-profit organizations which are excluded from coverage of this part in
accordance with § 230.20(c). Non-profit organizations described in Section
501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities as
defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible to
apply.

Federal Agencies may not apply. Federal employees are not eligible to serve in a
principal leadership role on an assistance agreement, and may not receive
salaries or augment their Agency's appropriations in other ways through awards
made under this program.

4.  2012-2013 FUNDING PRIORITIES

The TRI Program grants will be focused on 1. States and the Toxics Release
Inventory (TRI) and 2. TRI and public health/risk communication.

A.    States and TRI

The small grants program is looking for innovative projects pertaining to States
and the TRI program that help to:

-       Promote further state involvement in TRI,

-       Assist state's in developing a specific TRI program (e.g. a state TRI
starter kit, a state TRI program guidelines document, State Data Exchange MOA
guidelines document, etc.),

-       Integrate TRI with other state programs, (e.g. pollution prevention, air
permitting, water discharges, air and/or water enforcement, etc.),

-       Integrate EPA's annual State Fact Sheet and the TRI.net data for
year-to-year comparisons,

-       Foster better data quality (e.g. a computer program to identify and
notify state facilities that erroneously label data),

-       Create state TRI discussions (e.g. a "round table" where issues are
discussed, with work groups that could address these issues and provide
findings and recommendations to EPA.

We are looking for innovative and novel projects on States and the TRI program
that may also fall outside of the funding priorities listed above.  Applicants
should communicate with Bryan Shipley, ECOS, at
bship...@ecos.org<mailto:bship...@ecos.org> if they have a project topic they
would like to discuss for merit under the mini grants program.

B.     TRI and Environmental Public Health/Risk Communication

The small grants program is looking for innovative projects pertaining to TRI
and Environmental Public Health/Risk Communication.

Possible example projects include:

-          Risk assessment tools or models utilizing TRI data.

-          Risk communication tools utilizing TRI data.

-          Communicating risk from TRI releases.

-          Uses of TRI in environmental public health.

-          Uses of TRI in risk communication and risk assessment.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED RFP IN PDF FORMAT

QUESTIONS

Please direct any questions to:

Bryan Shipley

TRI Program Manager

Environmental Council of the States
50 F St., NW  Suite 350
Washington, DC  20001
202-266-4928<tel:202-266-4928>
bship...@ecos.org<mailto:bship...@ecos.org>

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Bryan Shipley
Project Manager- TRI Program
Environmental Council of the States
50 F St., NW  Suite 350
Washington, DC  20001
202-266-4928<tel:202-266-4928>
bship...@ecos.org<mailto:bship...@ecos.org>

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Bryan Shipley
Project Manager- TRI Program
Environmental Council of the States
50 F St., NW  Suite 350
Washington, DC  20001
202-266-4928<tel:202-266-4928>
bship...@ecos.org<mailto:bship...@ecos.org>

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Bryan Shipley
Project Manager- TRI Program
Environmental Council of the States
50 F St., NW  Suite 350
Washington, DC  20001
202-266-4928<tel:202-266-4928>
bship...@ecos.org<mailto:bship...@ecos.org>

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Bryan Shipley
Project Manager- TRI Program
Environmental Council of the States
50 F St., NW  Suite 350
Washington, DC  20001
202-266-4928<tel:202-266-4928>
bship...@ecos.org<mailto:bship...@ecos.org>

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Bryan Shipley
Project Manager- TRI Program
Environmental Council of the States
50 F St., NW  Suite 350
Washington, DC  20001
202-266-4928<tel:202-266-4928>
bship...@ecos.org<mailto:bship...@ecos.org>

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