PA Act 101 Grants Waste Management Planning Grants (Section 901) Development and Implementation Grants (Section 902) County Recycling Coordinator Grants (Section 903) Performance Grants (Section 904) Other Section Grants Other Grants Pennsylvania Conservation Corps DEP Associated Grants

Section 901 County Planning Grants
Counties are eligible for 80% reimbursement for preparation of waste management plans required by Act 101 and pollution prevention education activities.  For more information contact the Bureau of Waste Management at 717- 787-7382.

Section 902 Grants: Application Deadline Fall 2007
These grants reimburse counties and municipalities 90% of eligible recycling program development and implementation expenses. Funding is available to all municipalities and counties for a wide spectrum of equipment. An application period for the next round of grants is expected to open in late spring/early summer. Applications are likely to be due in late fall 2007. Details will be available when DEP makes the official grant offering announcement later this year. Pre-application conferences with DEP Regional Planning and Recycling Coordinators are required.

These grants are disbursement grants and payment is made to the grantee after the equipment, container, or service is purchased and paid for. Fiscal Summary Forms must be completed with each disbursement, detailing the expenditures made, the local match, and the remaining funds available. An Itemized Expenditure List for each budget line item must also be submitted.

• List of grantees from the June 2005 application round

COUNTY RECYCLING COORDINATOR GRANTS

Section 903 County Coordinator Grants; Application Deadline April 30, 2007

These are available to each of the Commonwealth's 67 counties for 50% of the eligible salary and expenses of the the county recycling coordinator. Contact the Bureau of Waste Management at 717-787-7382 for more information. 

• Application Instructions
• Eligible Activities Summary
• Travel & Subsistence Reimbursement Guidance
• Grant Application Sections A-F
• Activities Log
• W-9 Federal ID Form
• Historical List of 903 Grantees

PERFORMANCE GRANTS

Section 904 Recycling Performance Grants; Application Deadline October 1, 2007
Recycling Program Performance Grants are available to all Pennsylvania local governments with recycling programs. An application should be available by April 1.  The grants awards are based on the total tons recycled and the applicant's recycling rate. Mandated curbside municipalities and other municipalities, except for counties, receiving more than $10,000 in Performance Grant funding must meet the following performance requirements:

• Requires, through ordinance, that all residents have waste and recycling service.
• Has an implemented residential recycling program and facilitates a commercial recycling program or participates in a similar county or multi-municipal program.
• Has a residential and business recycling education program.
• Has a program of enforcement that periodically monitors participation, receives complaints and issues warnings for required participants and provides fines, penalties, or both, in its recycling ordinance.
• Has provisions, participates in a county or multi-municipal program or facilitates a private sector program for the recycling of special materials.
• Sponsors a program, facilitates a program or supports an organization to address illegal dumping and/or littering problems.
• Has a person or entity designated as recycling coordinator who is responsible for recycling data collection and reporting recycling program performance in the municipality or municipalities.

Applicants must retain documentation that materials claimed in the application were eligible for the grant, generated within the applicant's boundaries, and were recycled or marketed in the year covered by the application.  Records should always include:

• Material recycled
• Percentage of contamination of commingled loads
• Municipality in which it was collected
• Amount of commercial/institutional and residentially generated material
• Weight of material (documented by weight receipts)
• Name and signature of the collector, broker, or transporter
• Reports should be on a form from the collector or the letterhead of the collector

All eligible materials collected from residents, business, schools, colleges, universities and community events can be factored into the grant awards.  Eligible materials include all those post-consumer materials listed in the original Act 101 list. 

• Glass bottles and jars
• Steel and aluminum cans
• Plastic bottles
• Newspaper and magazines
• Other recyclable paper grades
• Corrugated cardboard

By law, this grant does not include pre-consumer materials or leaf and yard waste.

• The formula includes a $10 bonus for each ton of commercially generated material.
• The base award is $5 per ton and an additional $1 per ton for each percent diverted from the municipality's waste stream.
• Your diversion percentage is based on .8 tons of municipal solid waste per person per year.
• In computing your diversion rate, a municipality may only count commercial/institutional materials equal to the residential tonnage.

In other words, once your commercial material tonnage exceeds your residential total, you have reached the upper limit of your diversion rate. This was done so that communities with large commercial districts and low populations would not receive unfairly large amounts of Performance Grant money.

Confused? An example helps clarify things...

This sample community of 2,000 people recycles 160 residential tons and 250 commercial tons. For purposes of computing your diversion rate, you can only claim 160 of those 250 commercial tons. (Remember that you cannot claim anymore commercial tons than your residential total when computing the base award.) Since everyone is assumed to generate .8 tons of waste per person each year, we multiply the population by .8 to compute total waste generation. That gives us a 20% diversion rate (320 tons of recyclables divided by 1600 tons of waste). You get a dollar for every eligible diverted ton (or $20 x 320 eligible tons = $6,400). Finally, you get $10 a ton for the 90 commercial tons (or $10 x 90 = $900) that were in excess of your residential total. The three awards total $8,900. If you are still confused, contact Todd Pejack at DEP Grant Central; 717- 787-7382

It may also be helpful to take a look at one of our Data Management Workshop Summaries. This particular workshop included discussions on annual reporting and performance grant applications.

ACT 101 GRANTS OTHER SECTIONS

Section 1110 Host Municipality Independent Review of Waste Permits;
Application Deadline is Open
Up to $10,000 grant for host municipalities for independent review of permit applications for a new landfill, resource recovery facility, or expansion of an existing landfill or resource recovery facility.  For more information, contact the Bureau of Waste Management at 717-787-7381.

Section 301 Composting Infrastructure Development Grant
Under the program, qualified existing and operating for-profit business entities and non-profit organizations will be awarded grants to increase the quantity of yard waste and/or food wastes collected in the Commonwealth.  The new application is in the works.  For more information, contact Charlie Scheidler 717-787-7382.

Section 301 Recycling Markets Infrastructure Development Grant
Grants will be awarded on a competitive basis to qualified existing for-profit businesses and non-profit organizations that seek to purchase machinery or equipment that will result in increased consumption of recyclable materials recovered in Commonwealth.  The 2007 Grant application was releasaed on September 1^st 2007 and is to be completed and turned in by November 1^st 2007.  Contact Charlie Scheidler at 717-787-7382 for more information.