Tribal Waste Management Funding Resources Directory

GAP provides Tribes and intertribal consortia:

1. Financial assistance to build Tribal government capacity to implement programs under statutes administered by EPA.
2. Financial assistance for Tribal governments to meaningfully participate in federal environmental programs administered by EPA or authorized states, territories, other Tribes, or local governments.
3. Financial assistance for the Tribal solid and hazardous waste program development and implementation in accordance with the purposes and requirements of applicable provisions of law, including the Solid Waste Disposal Act (commonly known as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, or RCRA) and the 2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act.
4. Technical assistance to Tribes and intertribal consortia in the development of multimedia programs to address environmental issues.

Agency, Cleanup, Compliance and Enforcement, Design and Planning, Integrated Waste Management Plan, Technical Assistance, Community, Household Hazardous Waste, Solid Waste, Waste Management, Waste Stream Analysis, Workforce

The objective of the Brownfields Job Training Program is to recruit, train, and place unemployed and under-employed residents of solid and hazardous waste-impacted communities with the skills needed to obtain full-time, sustainable employment. This program promotes the facilitation of activities related to assessment, cleanup, or preparation of contaminated sites, including brownfields, for reuse, while simultaneously building a local workforce with the skills needed to perform remediation work that are supportive of environmental protection and environmental health and safety.

Consortia or Intertribal Consortia, Educational Institutions, Local Governments, Nonprofit Groups, State/Territorial Agencies, Indian Tribal Governments, Tribal Agencies, Universities

The program 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.

Brownfield sites are sites where reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, contaminant, and/or petroleum. The goals of the Brownfield Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants are to provide funding:

1. to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct planning and community involvement related to brownfield sites;
2. to capitalize a revolving loan fund and provide subgrants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites; and
3. to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites owned by the grant recipient.

The program provides funding to support community-based organizations in their efforts to collaborate and partner with local stakeholder groups (e.g., local businesses and industry, local government, medical providers and academia) as they develop and implement solutions that address environmental and/or public health issues for underserved communities. The long-term goals of the EJCPS Program are to help build the capacity of communities with environmental justice concerns and to create self-sustaining, community-based partnerships that will continue to improve local environments in the future.

Source Reduction Assistance (SRA) awards support research, investigation, experiments, surveys, study, demonstration, education and training using source reduction approaches (also known as P2 or pollution prevention).

Proposal deadline is usually during the late spring/early summer

Agency, Best Management Practice, Climate Change, Community, Compliance and Enforcement, Recycling, Source Reduction, Technical Assistance

The Sanitation Facilities Construction Program supports the mission of the Indian Health Service to raise the health status of American Indian and Alaska Native people to the highest possible level through the provision of sanitation facilities that help ensure Tribal communities have access to safe drinking water and waste disposal.

Tribes can request assistance anytime.  Process is not deadline driven.

This competitive grant program assists communities in reducing or eliminating the pollution of water resources by funding eligible organizations that provide technical assistance or training to improve planning for and management of solid waste disposal sites. 

Application materials for fiscal year (FY) 2022-23 are due February 9, 2023.

You can also get notifications on the grant program as it becomes available by subscribing to the Farm and Ranch Cleanup Grant listserv. Information on the program is shared through the listserv.

Best Management Practice, Cleanup, Community, Design and Planning, Facility Construction, Household Hazardous Waste, Source Reduction

California – Local Government Waste Tire Cleanup and Amnesty Grant Programs

These grant programs provide funding for the cost of cleanup, abatement, or other remedial actions related to the disposal of waste tires collected at cleanup projects and amnesty events. Previously offered together as one grant program, the Waste Tire Cleanup Grant and the Waste Tire Amnesty Grants have been separated. The Waste Tire Cleanup Grant Program will be offered every two years, beginning in 2012, in even years and the Waste Tire Amnesty Grant will be offered every two years in odd years. Each program will have a two-year grant term.

Waste Tire Cleanup grants include:

• Funds for the collection, removal, transportation, recycling, and disposal of California waste tires from tire piles and areas where illegal dumping has occurred. Funds are limited to the removal of waste tires along public rights-of-way and on private property.

Waste Tire Amnesty grants include:

• Funds for date-specific events for the public and are not intended for the disposal of waste tires from waste tire generating businesses (Public Resources Code section 42954(7)). Amnesty events 1) allow citizens to bring waste tires to convenient locations for proper management up to twice per month per location or 2) can consist of a coupon program that allows citizens to bring in waste tires on specified days.

Join the Waste Tire Cleanup Grant Program Listserv to be notified by email for program updates and when funding becomes available.

Join the Waste Tire Amnesty Grant Program Listserv to be notified by email for program updates and when funding becomes available.