§ 5505. — Environmental education grants.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 20USC5505]
TITLE 20--EDUCATION
CHAPTER 65--NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Sec. 5505. Environmental education grants
(a) Cooperative agreements and grants
The Administrator may enter into a cooperative agreement or
contract, or provide financial assistance in the form of a grant, to
support projects to design, demonstrate, or disseminate practices,
methods, or techniques related to environmental education and training.
(b) Eligible activities
Activities eligible for grant support pursuant to this section shall
include, but not be limited to, environmental education and training
programs for--
(1) design, demonstration, or dissemination of environmental
curricula, including development of educational tools and materials;
(2) design and demonstration of field methods, practices, and
techniques, including assessment of environmental and ecological
conditions and analysis of environmental pollution problems;
(3) projects to understand and assess a specific environmental
issue or a specific environmental problem;
(4) provision of training or related education for teachers,
faculty, or related personnel in a specific geographic area or
region; and
(5) design and demonstration of projects to foster international
cooperation in addressing environmental issues and problems
involving the United States and Canada or Mexico.
(c) Priority projects
In making grants pursuant to this section, the Administrator shall
give priority to those proposed projects which will develop--
(1) a new or significantly improved environmental education
practice, method, or technique;
(2) an environmental education practice, method, or technique
which may have wide application;
(3) an environmental education practice, method, or technique
which addresses a skill or scientific field identified as a priority
in the report developed pursuant to section 5508(d) of this title;
and
(4) an environmental education practice, method, or technique
which addresses an environmental issue which, in the judgment of the
Administrator, is of a high priority.
(d) Scope of program and implementing regulations
The program established by this section shall include solicitations
for projects, selection of suitable projects from among those proposed,
supervision of such projects, evaluation of the results of projects, and
dissemination of information on the effectiveness and feasibility of the
practices, methods, techniques and processes. Within one year of
November 16, 1990, the Administrator shall publish regulations to assure
satisfactory implementation of each element of the program authorized by
this section.
(e) Solicitation notices
Within 90 days after the date on which amounts are first
appropriated for carrying out this chapter, and each year thereafter,
the Administrator shall publish a solicitation for environmental
education grants. The solicitation notice shall prescribe the
information to be included in the proposal and other information
sufficient to permit the Administrator to assess the project.
(f) Applications
Any local education agency, college or university, State education
agency or environmental agency, not-for-profit organization, or
noncommercial educational broadcasting entity may submit an application
to the Administrator in response to the solicitations required by
subsection (e) of this section.
(g) Performance of projects
Each project under this section shall be performed by the applicant,
or by a person satisfactory to the applicant and the Administrator.
(h) Matching requirements
Federal funds for any demonstration project under this section shall
not exceed 75 percent of the total cost of such project. For the
purposes of this section, the non-Federal share of project costs may be
provided by inkind contributions and other noncash support. In cases
where the Administrator determines that a proposed project merits
support and cannot be undertaken without a higher rate of Federal
support, the Administrator may approve grants under this section with a
matching requirement other than that specified in this subsection,
including full Federal funding.
(i) Limitations on grants
Grants under this section shall not exceed $250,000. In addition, 25
percent of all funds obligated under this section in a fiscal year shall
be for grants of not more than $5,000.
(Pub. L. 101-619, Sec. 6, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3330.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 5503 of this title.
