Środowisko i energia · 20.08.2004

Performance Partnership Grants

This action adds three grant programs to the list of environmental grant programs eligible for inclusion in Performance Partnership Grants. The programs to be added are: The Environmental Information Exchange Network grant program; the Multimedia Sector Program grant funds; and the Brownfields grant program (CERCLA section 128(a)). See below for specific details on each program being added. The Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-134) and the Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-65), authorize EPA to combine categorical grant funds appropriated in EPA's State and Tribal Assistance Grant (STAG) account and award the funds as Performance Partnership Grants (PPGs). Public Law 104-134, states, in relevant part, that: "the Administrator is authorized to make grants annually from funds appropriated under this heading, subject to such terms and conditions as the Administrator shall establish, to any State or federally recognized Indian tribe for multimedia or single media pollution prevention, control and abatement and related environmental activitie