Can we use the HHW 16th Cycle Coordination Grant funding to coordinate a county-wide sharps/u-waste collection event?
No. The purpose of the coordination grant is to bring local officials and other stakeholders together to develop information and strategies for improving the sharps/u-waste collection system. Sharps/U-waste collection is not an allowable expense. The separate competitive Infrastructure portion of the HHW 16th Cycle would be the appropriate place to propose funding for a sharps/u-waste collection program; however competitive programs should be innovative models, especially those that promote public/private partnerships. Routine collection events would be fundable but would score lower in the competitive scoring process because they would not receive the preference points for innovation. Question: I am working with several counties that want to have one county be the “lead agency” for 5 other counties (all neighboring) to participate in the development of a sharps management strategy using the countywide coordination grant money. It states on page 9 of the grant instructions that individ
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