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EPA-I-OLEM-ORCR-25-02: Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grants for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia

Closed Closed January 23, 2026 Opportunity EPA-I-OLEM-ORCR-25-02 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of Environmental Protection Agency notices from 2025.

• Award ceiling$1.5 million
• Award floor$100,000
• Total funding$20.0 million
• Expected awards20
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

See Section 2 of the funding opportunity announcement for eligibility information.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Infrastructure Grants awards averaged $1.2 million; this notice allows up to $1.5 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (62% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) grant program will assist local waste management authorities by supporting improvements to local post-consumer materials management, including municipal recycling programs, and assisting local waste management authorities in making improvements to local waste management systems. Consistent with the authorizing statute in Section 302(a) of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act, SWIFR will support an economy that uses a systems-focused approach and involves industrial processes and economic activities that are restorative or regenerative by design, enables resources used in such processes and activities to maintain their highest value for as long as possible, and aims for the elimination of waste through the superior design of materials, products, and systems (including business models).

Category: Environment, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

Applying now

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