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<p class=MsoPlainText>The Fiscal Year 2009 Appropriations Bill authorized EPA
to administer a<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>$10 million competitive grant program to assist local and
tribal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>governments in establishing and implementing climate
change initiatives.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The overall goal of the Climate Showcase Communities
grant program is to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>create
replicable models of sustainable community action that generate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>cost-effective
and persistent greenhouse gas reductions while improving<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>the
environmental, economic, public health, or social conditions in a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>community</span>
--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-programs/state-and-local/showcase.html<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Here is a link for the RFP - -
http://epa.gov/air/grants/09-08.pdf<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>_________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Carlton Eley<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation (1807T)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Washington, DC 20460<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>email - eley.carlton@epa.gov<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>ph - 202-566-2841<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>fax - 202-566-2868<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>_________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Development, Community, and Environment Division:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>A partner in the Smart Growth Network:
http://www.smartgrowth.org<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>"Smart growth requires having the vision to build
great places for us<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>and our children after us." - - Carlton C. Eley<o:p></o:p></p>
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