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<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Good Morning Everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">EPA is making grant money available for New England communities to reduce environmental risks, protect and improve human health and improve the quality of life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">EPA New England’s Healthy Communities Grant Program is currently accepting applications for projects that will benefit one or more New England communities. EPA plans to award a total of approximately 10 cooperative
agreements. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Eligible applicants include state and local governments, public nonprofit institutions or organizations, private nonprofit institutions or organizations, quasi-public nonprofit institutions or organizations, federally
recognized tribal governments, K-12 schools or school districts; and non-profit organizations (e.g. grassroots and/or community-based organizations). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The Healthy Communities Grant Program will identify and fund projects that:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Target resources to benefit communities at risk [areas needing to create community resilience, environmental justice areas of potential concern, sensitive populations (e.g. children, elderly, tribes, urban/rural
residents, and others at increased risk)].</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Assess, understand, and reduce environmental and human health risks.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Increase collaboration through partnerships and community-based projects.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Build institutional and community capacity to understand and solve environmental and human health problems.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Advance emergency preparedness and ecosystem resilience.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Achieve measurable environmental and human health benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Eligible projects under this program must be located in and/or directly benefit one or more of the “target investment areas” and identify how the proposed project will achieve measurable environmental and/or public
health results in one or more of the “target program areas.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">In 2019, target investment areas” include: 1) Areas Needing to Create Community Resilience; 2) Environmental Justice Areas of Potential Concern; and/or 3) Sensitive Populations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“Target program areas” include: 1) Clean, Green, and Healthy Schools; 2) Community and Water Infrastructure Resilience; 3) Healthy Indoor Environments; and/or 4) Healthy Outdoor Environments. A description of these
target areas can be found in the 2019 Request for Proposals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">To help answer questions from prospective applicants, the Healthy Communities Grant Program will host four webinars before the proposal package is due. The information sessions are being offered on May 1, 7, 9,
and 15, 2019. These information sessions are optional, but RSVP’s are required. A registration form can be found in the Request for Proposal (see link below).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">More information:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- How to apply for a 2019 New England Healthy Community Grant:
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www3.epa.gov_region1_eco_uep_grants-5F2019hc.html&d=DwMF-g&c=tSLbvWYfvulPN3G_n48TUw&r=hMgWeIiqaW7epFfvoQNp5OWsMIE9cvEypzcIrYZEQ3Y&m=DE-bR-w-0kKadVxkX3clnTfCP_TtajUBlckOGSJfO9Q&s=iAO5-Op-C1dUeadicOhTbUhZzW8rPHdH1q8XM_KSVq8&e="><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://www3.epa.gov/region1/eco/uep/grants_2019hc.html</span>
[epa.gov]</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- Additional background on EPA’s New England Healthy Community Grants:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.epa.gov_region1_eco_uep_hcgp.html&d=DwMF-g&c=tSLbvWYfvulPN3G_n48TUw&r=hMgWeIiqaW7epFfvoQNp5OWsMIE9cvEypzcIrYZEQ3Y&m=DE-bR-w-0kKadVxkX3clnTfCP_TtajUBlckOGSJfO9Q&s=Hm7XF_XKadYiILFaCZXEzYj2uUb2F9jxB5zlJGHWjKY&e="><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">http://www.epa.gov/region1/eco/uep/hcgp.html</span>
[epa.gov]</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">If you have any questions, please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Katie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>Marrese, Katherine <<a href="mailto:Marrese.Katie@epa.gov">Marrese.Katie@epa.gov</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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