Is the HHW 16th Cycle offering two different types of grants?
Yes. The HHW 16th Cycle is offering a non-competitive grant (County-Wide Coordination Grant to facilitate discussion of Regional Sharps/U-Waste and/or Product Stewardship) and a competitive grant (Infrastructure Grant). The county-wide Coordination Grant is (Coordination Grant) not competitive and provides funds to each county-wide area to bring stakeholders such as governments, water, air and waste agencies, industry, and the public together to discuss the most cost-efficient methods of collecting and processing the sharps, u-waste materials and product stewardship. The grant uses a streamlined application and simplified final report. The Infrastructure Grant is similar to previous cycle HHW competitive grants for individual or multi-jurisdiction projects, except that preference points will be given to projects that plan or construct new sustainable HHW collection facility(ies), or expand an existing permanent HHW collection facility(ies) to accommodate sharps and u-waste, or develop
