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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $100 Million in Grants to Support
Manufacturers of Cleaner Construction Materials as Part of Investing in
America Agenda
EPA seeking grant applications to support the development, standardization,
transparency, and reporting criteria for Environmental Product Declarations
that will expand market access to lower carbon construction materials
WASHINGTON (September 28, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $100 million in grants to support
efforts to report and reduce climate pollution linked to the manufacturing of
construction materials and products, which account for 11% of annual global
greenhouse gas emissions. The funding through EPA’s new Reducing Embodied
Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials program will help
manufacturers disclose environmental impacts across the life of a product and
inform institutional purchasers who are prioritizing lower embodied carbon
construction materials. Thanks to President Biden’s Investing in America
agenda, a key pillar of Bidenomics, the new program—created by the Inflation
Reduction Act—supports the resurgence of sustainable American
manufacturing.
“In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in construction materials and
products, we must be able track and understand where they are,” said
Assistant Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution
Prevention Michal Freedhoff. “These new grants through President Biden’s
Investing in America agenda will help ensure manufacturers have access to the
assistance they need to disclose and reduce emissions, thereby supporting
thriving and healthy communities across America.” 
“Today’s funding announcement from EPA is like the falling of small stones
that starts an avalanche of industrial sector emissions reductions in the
US,” said U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY). “By shining a
light on leading low and no carbon products, providing direct incentives to
deeply decarbonize industrial facilities, and creating a market for these
products, the IRA is driving down emissions in one of the hardest to abate
sectors while supporting US jobs and industry. It’s just the latest example
of how the Inflation Reduction Act is reducing carbon emissions and helping us
meet our climate goals while creating good paying jobs here in America.”
“As we work to rebuild our nation’s infrastructure, we should be using
materials and products produced in the most sustainable way possible, which
more often than not are American-made,” said U.S. Senator Tom Carper (DE),
Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “Thanks to
our investments in the Inflation Reduction Act, EPA is helping our nation’s
companies to better understand and communicate the environmental impacts of
their products. This will create new markets for American manufacturers making
cleaner products and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions across our
economy.”
This new grant program—Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for
Construction Materials and Products—will help businesses develop robust
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) which disclose environmental impacts
across the life of a product. Embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—also
called embodied carbon—refers to the amount of GHG emissions associated with
the extraction, production, transport, and manufacturing stages of a product’s
life. EPDs facilitate the reliable tracking of emissions associated with
construction materials and products to inform procurement decisions. 
EPA will provide grants to businesses that manufacture, remanufacture, and
refurbish construction materials and products for developing and verifying
EPDs, and to states, Tribes, and nonprofit organizations that will support
such businesses. The EPDs generated through this grant program will make it
easier for state and local governments—and other institutional buyers—to
ensure the construction projects they fund are using low carbon construction
materials.
EPA is working with other federal agencies as part of a broader initiative
funded by the Inflation Reduction Act to address the embodied carbon of
construction materials with the goal of substantially lowering the levels of
embodied carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions. The Inflation Reduction
Act also appropriated more than $2 billion to the General Services
Administration to use low embodied carbon materials in the construction and
renovation of federal buildings and $2 billion to the Federal Highway
Administration to incentivize or reimburse the use of low embodied carbon
construction materials in certain transportation projects.  
Billions of tons of concrete, asphalt, steel, glass, and other construction
materials and products are required to build, maintain, and operate our
country’s buildings and infrastructure. These new grants will support the
historic investments made through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and
Inflation Reduction Act to strengthen America’s infrastructure while
advancing America’s industrial capacity to supply the goods and materials of
the future and growing good jobs for American workers.
Eligibility and Application Information
The deadline to apply to this grant competition is January 8, 2024. EPA
requests the submittal of an optional Notice of Intent to apply by October 27,
Eligible entities include:
• Businesses that manufacture, remanufacture, and refurbish construction
materials and products, and 
• States, Tribes, and nonprofit organizations that will support such
businesses. 
Under this program, EPA plans to award in Fiscal Year 2024 up to 40 grants
and/or cooperative agreements, some which would enable funding and technical
assistance to flow to hundreds of small businesses via subaward programs
established by selected eligible applicants.
Funding amounts for individual grant and cooperative agreements are
anticipated to be in the range of $250,000 to $10 million. In addition, EPA
will consider subranges of grants in the amounts of $250,000 to $749,999;
$750,000 to $4.99 million dollars; and $5 million to $10 million dollars.
EPA has published the Notice of Funding Opportunity for this grant competition
on grants.gov. Earlier this month, EPA published an assistance listing
detailing key parameter of the program, which can be viewed at Sam.gov. 
Informational Webinar
The grant program will host two webinars to provide information on this grant
competition and the application process on November 2, 2023, from 2 – 3 pm
ET and November 14, 2023, from 2 – 3 pm ET. Link to register for
webinars. 
Tools and resources for prospective grantees, including webinar recordings,
links and helpful templates, can be found on EPA’s webpage.
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