Solid Waste Management Grant: Rural Landfill Operations & Waste Reduction Assistance

a. Is a private, non-profit organization that has tax-exempt status from the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS);
b. Is a Public body;
c. Is a federally acknowledged or State-recognized Native American tribe or group; or
d. Is an Academic Institution.
e. Entitites must be established and legally located within a state as defined in 1775.2.
f. Organizations must be incorporated by December 31 of the year the application period occurs to be eligible for funds.
g. Private businesses, Federal agencies, and individuals are ineligible for these grants.
h. Applicants must also have the proven ability, background, experience, as evidenced by the organization’s satisfactory completion of projects similar to those proposed; legal authority; and actual capacity to provide technical assistance and/or training on a regional basis to associations as provided in 1775.63. To meet requirements of actual capacity, an applicant must either: 1)have necessary resources to provide technical assistance and/or training to associations in rural areas through its staff, or 2)be assisted by an affiliate or member organization which has such background and experience and which agrees, in writing, that it will provide the assistance, or 3) contract with a nonaffiliated organization for not more than 49 percent of the grant to provide the proposed assistance.