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EPA-OMS-25-01: Fiscal Year 2025 National Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program Solicitation Notice

Closed Closed October 22, 2025 Opportunity EPA-OMS-25-01 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$600,000
• Total funding$9.5 million
• Expected awards35
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement, Grant

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 Notice of Funding Opportunity for eligibility information.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program and Related Assistance awards averaged $280,529; this notice allows up to $600,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (46% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Exchange Network (EN) was launched in 2002 as an intergovernmental, collaborative partnership of EPA, states, territories, and Tribes to foster better environmental management and decision-making through increased access to timely, high quality environmental information. This was achieved through a standards-based approach to facilitate environmental data sharing among EPA, states, Tribes, and territories. The framework adopted allows organizations to exchange data over the Internet regardless of the specific information technology used. (See https://www.epa.gov/exchangenetwork and http://www.exchangenetwork.net/). The EN continues to evolve to adapt to emerging technologies and to meet new programmatic needs. Applicants are encouraged to participate in EPA’s EN Forum which is a call that is held monthly to discuss how to improve and better use the EN services and partnerships. The Forum is open to all participants; see https://exchangenetwork.net/exchange-network-forum/. The EPA EN Grant Program is soliciting project applications to:  Facilitate sharing of environmental data, especially through shared and reusable services.  Reduce burden and avoid costs for co-regulators and the regulated community.  Streamline data collection and exchanges to improve its timeliness for decision making.  Increase the quality and access to environmental data through discovery, publishing, outbound and analytical services so it is more useful to environmental managers.  Increase data and IT management capabilities needed to fully participate in the EN. CRITICAL UPDATE: Revised FY25 Application Due Date and Updates to Project Strategic Alignment (More Details to Come) March 20th, 2025 The Exchange Network Grant Program has been informed that the current Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Exchange Network (EN) Grant Program Solicitation Notice (SN) must be revised in accordance with updated Agency priorities. As such, the application due date will be extended until October 22, 2025. An updated Solicitation Notice is not yet available but will be posted to the grants.gov listing (and linked on the EN website) as soon as possible. Please note that we are anticipating updates to Section 3B, Program Goals and Objectives, which will further impact evaluation criterion 1A (see SN page 17) and the project description section of the project narrative (see SN page 67).

Category: Environment.

Applying now

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