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Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and monthly. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

221,808 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$13,277,604, which includes $0 

annualized capital/startup costs, 

$205,380 O&M costs, and $13,072,224 

annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 1,200 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease is due to a 

reduction in the annual number of 

applications for detergent certification, 

from 50 to 30.

Dated: September 15, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–21584 Filed 9–24–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[Regional Docket Nos. II–2000–01, –03; 

FRL–7819–1] 

Notice of Final Orders on Remand; 

Clean Air Act Operating Permit 

Program; Petitions for Objection to 

State Operating Permits for the Albert 

Einstein College of Medicine at 

Yeshiva University and the Kings Plaza 

Total Energy Plant

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of final order on remand, 

addressing two State operating permits. 

SUMMARY: This document announces 

that the EPA Administrator has 

addressed on remand two citizen 

petitions asking EPA to object to 

operating permits issued to two 

facilities by the New York State 

Department of Environmental 

Conservation (NYSDEC). On February 

27, 2003, the United States Court of 

Appeals for the Second Circuit granted 

a petition for review brought by NYPIRG 

challenging the EPA’s final Orders 

denying its administrative petitions 

seeking objections to the Action 

Packaging, Kings Plaza, and Yeshiva 

permits. New York Public Interest 

Research Group, Inc. v. Whitman, 321 

F.3d 316 (2nd Cir.) (hereinafter 

‘‘NYPIRG’’). The court vacated EPA’s 

denial of NYPIRG’s petitions and 

remanded the decisions for further 

proceedings consistent with the court’s 

opinion. Specifically, in response to the 

court’s remand, the Administrator has 

partially granted and partially denied 

the petitions submitted by the New York 

Public Interest Research Group 

(NYPIRG) to object to the state operating 

permits issued to the Albert Einstein 

College of Medicine at Yeshiva 

University and the Kings Plaza Total 

Energy Plant. The facility operated by 

Action Packaging ceased operations as 

of September 31, 2002, surrendered its 

permit, and will not be seeking a 

renewal permit. 

Pursuant to section 505(b)(2) of the 

Clean Air Act (Act), Petitioner may seek 

judicial review of those portions of the 

petitions which EPA denied in the 

United States Court of Appeals for the 

appropriate circuit. Any petition for 

review shall be filed within 60 days 

from the date this notice appears in the 

Federal Register, pursuant to section 

307 of the Act.

ADDRESSES: You may review copies of 

the final order, the petitions, and other 

supporting information at the EPA 

Region 2 Office, 290 Broadway, New 

York, New York 10007–1866. If you 

wish to examine these documents, you 

should make an appointment at least 24 

hours before visiting day. Additionally, 

the final order is available electronically 

at: http://www.epa.gov/region07/

programs/artd/air/title5/petitiondb/

petitiondb2000.htm.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Steven Riva, Chief, Permitting Section, 

Air Programs Branch, Division of 

Environmental Planning and Protection, 

EPA Region 2, 290 Broadway, 25th 

Floor, New York, New York 10007–

1866, telephone (212) 637–4074.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Act 

affords EPA a 45-day period to review, 

and object to as appropriate, operating 

permits proposed by state permitting 

authorities. Section 505(b)(2) of the Act 

authorizes any person to petition the 

EPA Administrator within 60 days after 

the expiration of this review period to 

object to state operating permits if EPA 

has not done so. Petitions must be based 

only on objections to the permit that 

were raised with reasonable specificity 

during the public comment period 

provided by the state, unless the 

petitioner demonstrates that it was 

impracticable to raise these issues 

during the comment period or the 

grounds for the issues arose after this 

period. 

I. Yeshiva 

On March 15, 2000, the EPA received 

a petition from NYPIRG, requesting that 

EPA object to the issuance of the title V 

operating permit for the Albert Einstein 

College of Medicine at Yeshiva 

University. The EPA administrator first 

responded to this petition on January 

16, 2002, denying it on all counts. In the 

Matter of the Albert Einstein College of 

Medicine of Yeshiva University

(‘‘Yeshiva’’), Petition No. II–2000–01, 

January 16, 2002. On August 26, 2004, 

in response to the NYPIRG decision 

remanding the January 16 Order to EPA, 

the Administrator issued an order 

partially granting and partially denying 

the Yeshiva petition. The order explains 

the reasons behind EPA’s conclusion 

that the NYSDEC must reopen the 

permit to: (1) Publish a public notice for 

the Yeshiva permit with language on 

how to request a hearing; (2) apply the 

proper standard when deciding whether 

to hold a hearing, if one is requested; (3) 

prepare a statement of basis with the 

draft permit; and (4) describe the 

applicability of 40 CFR part 68. The 

order also explains the reasons for 

denying the initial compliance 

certification issue, which is the fifth 

petition issue addressed per the remand. 

II. Kings Plaza 

On May 5, 2000, the EPA received a 

petition from NYPIRG, requesting that 

EPA object to the issuance of the title V 

operating permit for the Kings Plaza 

Total Energy Plant. The EPA 

Administrator first responded to this 

petition on January 16, 2002, granting it 

in part and denying it in part. In the 

Matter of Kings Plaza Total Energy 

Plant, Petition Number II–2000–03, 

January 16, 2002 (‘‘Kings Plaza’’). On 

August 26, 2004, in response to the 

NYPIRG decision remanding the 

January 16 Order to EPA, the 

Administrator issued an order partially 

granting and partially denying the 

petition. The order explains the reasons 

behind EPA’s conclusion that the 

NYSDEC must require the permittee to 

submit a new compliance certification 

in accordance with 40 CFR 70.5(c)(9)(i). 

The Order also explains the reasons for 

denying the other four remand issues.

Dated: September 16, 2004. 

Jane M. Kenny, 

Regional Administrator, Region 2.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7818–5] 

Notice of Solicitation: Building State, 

Territorial, and Tribal Capacity To 

Address Children’s Environmental 

Health: Environmental Triggers of 

Childhood Asthma; Initial 

Announcement

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

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ACTION: Notice of solicitation.

Part I. Overview Information 

(1) Federal Agency: Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of the 

Administrator, Office of Children’s 

Health Protection. 

(2) Funding Opportunity Title:

Building State, Territorial, and Tribal 

Capacity to Address Children’s 

Environmental Health: Environmental 

Triggers of Childhood Asthma; Initial 

Announcement. 

(3) Funding Opportunity Number:

USEPA–AO–OCHP–04–02. 

(4) CFDA Number: 66.609 Protection 

of Children and the Aging as a 

Fundamental Goal of Public Health and 

Environmental Protection, Fiscal Year 

2004, Environmental Protection Agency. 

(5) Deadline for the Letter of Intent:

October 15, 2004. All applicants must 

submit a Letter of Intent (up to two 

pages in length) to be considered for an 

invitation to submit a Full Proposal. 

(6) Solicitation Closing Date and Full 

Proposal shipping date for applicants 

found to be eligible by EPA based on the 

Letters of Intent: December 29, 2004. 

(7) Table of Contents:

Part I. Overview Information 

Part II. Full Text of Announcement 

Section I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Section II. Award Information 

Section III. Eligibility Information 

Section IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

Section V. Application Review Information 

Section VI. Award Administration 

Information 

Section VII. Agency Contact 

Section VIII. Other Information 

Attachment Sample Letter of Intent

(8) Executive Summary 

(a) Funding Opportunity Title:

‘‘Building State, Territorial, and Tribal 

Capacity to Address Children’s 

Environmental Health: Environmental 

Triggers of Childhood Asthma.’’

(b) Announcement Type: Initial 

Offering. 

(c) Funding Opportunity Number:

USEPA–AO–OCHP–04–02. 

(d) CFDA Number: 66.609 Protection 

of Children and the Aging as a 

Fundamental Goal of Public Health and 

Environmental Protection, Fiscal Year 

2004, EPA. 

(e) Purpose of Funding Opportunity:

Identify projects that will build state, 

territorial, and tribal capacity to address 

the environment triggers of childhood 

asthma. This solicitation focuses on 

projects that equip environment and 

health departments/agencies, and social 

service agencies where indicated, of 

states, territories and tribes as partners 

or state/territorial/tribal or regional 

asthma coalitions with substantive 

government involvement, to achieve 

measurable environmental and public 

health results by identifying and 

reducing environmental risks to protect 

and improve the environmental health 

of children impacted by asthma. 

Projects must be accomplished through 

collaborative efforts of environment and 

health departments/agencies, and social 

service agencies where indicated, of 

states, territories and tribes as partners 

or state/territorial/tribal or regional 

asthma coalitions with substantive 

government involvement which focus 

on one or more Target Investment Areas. 

Target Project Areas define a range of 

activities from which applicants must 

choose to understand, coordinate, 

address and manage the environmental 

triggers of childhood asthma. 

(f) Awards: EPA anticipates awarding 

approximately seven to nine grants from 

these Full Proposals. Approximately 

$360,000 are expected to be awarded. 

Grants or cooperative agreements may 

be requested from $25,000 to $50,000 

for a period of one year. No cost sharing 

is required. 

(g) Eligibility: The environment or 

health departments/agencies, in 

partnership with social service 

departments/agencies when indicated, 

of the states of EPA Regions 2–10 (NJ, 

NY, DE, MD, PA, VA, WV, AL, FL, GE, 

KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, IL, IN, MI, MN, 

OH, WI, AR, LA, NM, OK, TX, IA, KS, 

MO, NE, CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY, AZ, 

CA, HI, NV, AK, ID, OR and WA) and 

the District of Columbia; tribes whose 

territories fall within the 

aforementioned states and the territories 

of the United States. Applicant agencies 

must propose to collaborate with their 

counterparts in their government’s 

environment or health department or 

related agencies in this project. 

Applicants may also be state/

territorial/tribal or regional (e.g. the 

asthma coalition of the greater 

metropolitan area of Smallville) asthma 

coalitions in the geographic areas 

defined above, with documented 

significant sustained involvement of 

senior representatives of the 

environment and health departments of 

the states, territories or tribes in the 

geographic area served by the state/

territorial/tribal or regional asthma 

coalition. 

(h) Application and Submission 

Information: A two part application 

process will be followed. Letters of 

Intent must be submitted by e-mail 

October 15, 2004. Applicants with 

successful Letters of Intent will be 

invited to participate in an optional Preproposal Assistance Call on October 26, 

2004 and to submit a Full Proposal 

which must be shipped by December 29, 

2004. A sample Letter of Intent is 

included as an Attachment to this 

Solicitation. Other application materials 

are available on the Office of Children’s 

Health Protection Web site: http://

yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/

content/grants.htm and the EPA Grants 

Administration Web site http://

www.epa.gov/ogd/grants/

how_to_apply.htm.

Part II. Full Text of Announcement 

Section I. Funding Opportunity 

Description 

1. Background 

In recent years, EPA’s Office of 

Children’s Health Protection has 

encouraged and supported collaboration 

between state level health and 

environment departments/agencies 

toward the end of building state 

capacity to combat childhood asthma. 

Since the summer of 2001, the 

Environmental Council of the States 

(ECOS) has collaborated with the 

Association of State and Territorial 

Health Officials (ASTHO) and the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency to 

design a flexible template for state level 

strategies and actions to minimize 

environmental factors that contribute to 

asthma in children. This focus on 

environmental factors complements the 

on-going Centers for Disease Control 

(CDC) state asthma program which 

recognizes the need to address 

environmental factors but does not 

explicitly provide guidance or support 

for this aspect of disease prevention and 

control. 

Throughout 2002, ECOS, ASTHO, and 

EPA hosted a series of four workshops 

to refine the details of a cooperative 

approach in four specific areas: Data, 

environmental factors in homes, 

environmental factors in schools and 

child care facilities, and outdoor 

environmental factors.

The funding priorities of this Request 

for Proposals are a reflection of the draft 

action agenda, Catching Your Breath

http://www.astho.org/pubs/

CatchingYourBreathReport.pdf that 

resulted from this intensive 

collaborative visioning process. 

With this Funding Opportunity, the 

Office of Children’s Health Protection is 

pleased to be able to extend this 

capacity building effort to territories of 

the United States and tribes. 

2. Funding Priorities 

The purpose of this funding 

opportunity, ‘‘Building State, 

Territorial, and Tribal Capacity to 

Address Children’s Environmental 

Health: Environmental Triggers of 

Childhood Asthma,’’ is to identify 

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projects that will build state, territorial, 

and tribal capacity to address the 

environmental triggers of childhood 

asthma. This solicitation focuses on 

projects that equip environment and 

health departments/agencies, in 

partnership with social service agencies, 

where indicated, of states, territories 

and tribes or state/territorial/tribal or 

regional asthma coalitions with 

substantive government involvement, to 

achieve measurable environmental and 

public health results by identifying and 

reducing environmental risks to protect 

and improve the environmental health 

of children impacted by asthma. This 

initiative will help achieve these goals 

by identifying and funding projects that: 

• Focus efforts on benefitting 

communities at greatest risk including 

places with high levels of toxic air 

pollution and areas with 

disproportionate impact from 

environmental health hazards related to 

childhood asthma; 

• Measure, assess, and reduce 

environmental triggers of health risks 

associated with childhood asthma; 

• Increase collaboration among 

environment, health and other relevant 

agencies within states, territories and 

tribes, or within state/territorial/tribal or 

regional asthma coalitions with their 

government partners. Focus 

collaboration upon understanding the 

burden of childhood asthma in at-risk 

communities and minimizing and 

eliminating the sources of 

environmental triggers; and 

• Build institutional capacity to 

understand and solve children’s 

environmental health problems through 

innovative techniques; and achieve 

measurable children’s environmental 

health benefits. 

Specifically, projects must meet the 

Statutory Criteria. Further, they must 

focus on one or more Target Investment 

Areas and build state, territorial or tribal 

capacity to address children’s 

environmental health through 

collaborative efforts of environment, 

health and other appropriate 

government agencies in partnership 

with other organizations through work 

to understand, coordinate, address and 

manage the environmental triggers of 

childhood asthma through one of the 

Target Project Areas. 

a. Statutory Criteria 

EPA expects to award these grants 

under the Clean Air Act Section 

103(b)(3). In addition to the program 

criteria list below, a proposal must meet 

the following two important Statutory 

Criteria to be considered for funding. 

(1) Statutory Criterion 1 

A project must consist of activities 

authorized under the Clean Air Act 

Section 103(b)(3). This statute 

authorizes grants for: ‘‘research, 

investigations, experiments, 

demonstrations, surveys and studies.’’

These activities relate generally to the 

gathering or transferring of knowledge. 

Grant proposals should emphasize a 

‘‘learning’’ concept, as opposed to 

‘‘fixing’’ a specific environmental 

problem through a well-established 

method. For example, the application of 

the EPA ‘‘Tools for Schools’’ protocols 

in schools to manage environmental 

triggers and thereby reduce childhood 

asthma is not eligible nor would a 

project to develop a home assessment 

checklist tool and conduct routine home 

assessments be eligible. The project’s 

activities must advance the state of 

knowledge or transfer information to 

other practitioners in the field. The 

statutory term ‘‘demonstration’’ can 

encompass the first application of an 

approach or an innovative application 

of a previously used method. The term 

‘‘research’’ may include the application 

of established practices as they 

contribute to ‘‘learning’’ about the 

effectiveness of an environmental 

approach. 

(2) Statutory Criterion 2 

Section 103 of the Clean Air Act 

(CAA) authorizes EPA’s Administrator 

to conduct and promote the 

coordination and acceleration of 

research, investigations, experiments, 

demonstrations, surveys and studies 

relating to the causes, effects (including 

health and welfare effects), extent, 

prevention, and control of air pollution 

by making grants to air pollution control 

agencies, to other public or nonprofit 

private agencies, institutions, and 

organizations for purposes stated in 

Section 103(a)(1) http://www.epa.gov/

oar/caa/caa103.txt. The overarching 

concern or principle focus must be on 

the statutory purpose of this grant 

authority. Proposals should describe the 

relationship of their proposed activities 

to the air (ambient and indoor) 

pollution statute. Products may include, 

but are not limited to, conference 

presentations with published papers, 

case studies, workshops, educational 

materials, innovative tools, or on-site 

demonstrations. 

b. Target Investment Areas and Target 

Project Areas 

In order to qualify as eligible projects 

under this initiative, projects must focus 

on and benefit one or more Target 

Investment Areas and build state, 

territorial and tribal capacity to address 

children’s environmental health through 

collaborative efforts of environment, 

health, and other appropriate 

government departments/agencies in 

partnership with other organizations to 

coordinate, address and manage the 

environmental triggers of childhood 

asthma through one of the Target Project 

Areas.

(1) Target Investment Areas 

(a) Benefit communities at greatest 

risk of childhood asthma including 

places with high risk from toxic air 

pollution, and/or 

(b) Areas with disproportionate 

impact from environmental health 

hazards related to childhood asthma. 

(2) Target Project Areas 

Building state, territorial and tribal 

capacity to address childhood asthma 

can be accomplished through projects in 

one or more of these areas: 

(a) Organize or charter state/

territorial/tribal or regional (e.g. the 

asthma coalition of the greater 

metropolitan area of Smallville) asthma 

coalitions with government partners to 

provide innovative solutions to address 

the environmental triggers of childhood 

asthma. Broad-based membership must 

feature senior officials from the 

environment and health agencies of the 

states, territories or tribes within the 

geographic area covered who 

demonstrate significant leadership and 

pledge sustained participation in the 

coalition. 

(b) Existing state, territorial or tribal 

governmental partnerships or state/

territorial/tribal or regional asthma 

coalitions, design and implement 

projects that focus on understanding the 

burden of childhood asthma in Target 

Investment Areas and identify sources 

of asthma triggers; 

(c) Collaborative efforts of state, 

territorial and tribal environment, 

health and social service departments/

agencies and/or state/territorial/tribal or 

regional asthma coalitions which 

include these entities, to demonstrate 

and evaluate the effectiveness of: 

(i) New methods, approaches or 

protocols for reducing or eliminating 

exposure to environmental asthma 

triggers in early childhood (0–4 years). 

This may include but is not limited to 

changes in environmental health 

requirements of child care facility 

approval, education and 

implementation work in large-scale and 

home-based child care facilities, pre-K 

and nursery school programs, Head 

Start and Migrant Head Start facilities, 

homeless shelters serving children of 

this age range, etc. 

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(ii) New approaches for encouraging, 

rewarding, and measuring the 

elimination of environmental asthma 

triggers from the environments of young 

children. These may include, but are not 

limited to training and/or certification 

programs for child care providers, 

training and follow-up programs for 

new parents in high risk communities, 

training and consumer education for 

parents on environmental asthma 

triggers common in the child care 

setting and what to look for when 

choosing a child care provider based on 

these concerns, etc.

Note: For all the above, ‘‘environmental 

asthma triggers’’ is meant to include known 

indoor and outdoor triggers such as dust 

mites, pet dander, cockroach dust, ambient 

particulate matter, diesel exhaust, ground 

level ozone (smog), second hand tobacco 

smoke, etc.

Section II. Award Information 

Funds available for these projects are 

expected to total approximately 

$360,000. Grants and cooperative 

agreements are expected to be awarded 

to approximately seven to nine state, 

territorial or tribal environment or 

health agencies or state/territorial or 

regional (e.g. the asthma coalition of the 

greater metropolitan area of Smallville) 

asthma coalitions. Proposals for less 

than $25,000 and greater than $50,000 

will not be considered. Award amounts 

will vary depending upon solicitation 

priorities, proposal quality and level of 

activity, and resource availability. The 

Agency reserves the right to make no 

awards under this solicitation. 

Projects may expand upon ongoing 

work within the focus of this 

solicitation. However, the boundaries of 

the previous and proposed work under 

this solicitation must be clear in terms 

of the work to be done and the budget 

to support the new proposal.

It is expected that grants and 

cooperative agreements will begin 

around the spring of 2005 and be 

completed in the spring of 2006. 

If the applicant chooses to submit a 

proposal for a cooperative agreement, 

the Agency will have substantial 

involvement in the project. The 

applicant must define the expectations 

for Agency involvement in the project. 

Such involvement may mean EPA 

review and approval of project scope 

and phases; EPA participation in and 

collaboration on, various phases of the 

work; EPA review of draft and final 

work products; regular e-mail, phone 

and conference calls. 

Projects not selected for award under 

this solicitation will be retained on file 

and made available for potential 

funding by OCHP and other EPA offices 

for a period of one year from the date 

of receipt of the Full Proposal by EPA. 

While only environment or health 

agencies/departments or state/

territorial/tribal or regional asthma 

coalitions with government partners 

may be the direct recipients and lead 

administrators of the project, other 

partners are encouraged to participate 

and are eligible for compensation 

through sub-contracting agreement(s) 

between the lead agency/department 

and collaborating partners as long as the 

state/territorial/tribal department/

agency maintains a substantive, handson role in the management and 

implementation of the project. Materials 

to support the projects may be secured 

through procurement contracts. 

Section III. Eligibility Information 

1. Applicants 

a. Eligible Applicants 

Eligible applicants under this 

managed competition include: 

government environment or health 

departments/agencies, in partnership 

with social service departments/

agencies when indicated, of states, 

territories or tribes as listed below, and 

state/territorial/tribal or regional (e.g.

the asthma coalition of the greater 

metropolitan area of Smallville) asthma 

coalitions addressing environmental 

triggers of childhood asthma with 

substantive involvement of these 

government department/agency 

partners. 

Eligible governments include: the 

states of EPA Regions 2–10 (NJ, NY, DE, 

MD, PA, VA, WV, AL, FL, GE, KY, MS, 

NC, SC, TN, IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI, 

AR, LA, NM, OK, TX, IA, KS, MO, NE, 

CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY, AZ, CA, HI, 

NV, AK, ID, OR and WA) and the 

District of Columbia; tribes whose 

territories fall within the 

aforementioned states; and the 

territories of the United States. 

b. Ineligible Applicants 

(1) The EPA Region 1 states of 

Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, 

New Hampshire, Rhode Island and 

Vermont and the tribes whose territories 

fall within this Region are expressly 

excluded from this funding Initiative. 

Funding was available directly from the 

EPA Region 1 Office through a different 

competed solicitation in April of 2004 

known as the ‘‘Healthy Communities 

Grant Program’’ to support New England 

states’ efforts in the arena of childhood 

asthma and related community-based 

endeavors. See http://www.epa.gov/

region01/grants/

healthycommunities.html or contact 

Sandra Padula at (617) 918–1797 for 

more information. 

(2) Businesses, federal agencies, and 

individuals are not eligible to be grant 

recipients. They are encouraged to work 

in partnership with eligible applicants 

on projects. 

c. Non-profit Status 

Applicants are not required to have a 

formal Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 

non-profit designation, such as 501(c)(3) 

or 501(c)(4); however they must present 

in their Full Proposal their letter of 

incorporation or other documentation 

demonstrating their non-profit or notfor-profit status. This requirement does 

not apply to public agencies or 

federally-recognized tribes. Failure to 

enclose a letter of incorporation or other 

documentation demonstrating nonprofit or not-for-profit status will render 

Full Proposals incomplete and they will 

not be reviewed. Applicants who do 

have an IRS 501(c)(4) designation are 

not eligible for grants if they engage in 

lobbying, no matter what the source of 

funding for the lobbying activities. No 

recipient may use grant funds for 

lobbying. For profit enterprises are not 

eligible to receive sub-grants from 

eligible recipients, although they may 

receive contracts, subject to EPA 

regulations on procurement under 

assistance agreements, 40 Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR) 30.40 (for 

non-governmental recipients) and 40 

CFR 31.36 (for governments). 

d. Tribal Status 

Tribal agencies must supply 

documentation of their authorizing 

tribal resolution. 

e. Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs (SPOC List) 

Applicants must adhere to the 

provisions of The Executive Order 

12372, ‘‘Intergovernmental Review of 

Federal Programs’’ (SPOC List) applies. 

See http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/

grants/spoc.html for further 

information. 

f. Responsible Officials and 

Partnerships 

As stated above, eligible applicants in 

this managed competition include 

environment, health agencies/

departments, in partnership with social 

service agencies where applicable, of 

states, territories or tribes, and state/

territorial/tribal or regional (e.g. the 

asthma coalition of the greater 

metropolitan area of Smallville) asthma 

coalitions with government partners. 

While only environment or health 

agencies/departments or state/

territorial/tribal or regional asthma 

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coalitions with government partners 

may be the direct recipients and lead 

administrators of the project, other 

partners are encouraged to participate 

and are eligible for compensation 

through sub-contracting agreement(s) 

between the lead agency/department 

and collaborating partners as long as the 

state, territorial or tribal agency/

department maintains a substantive, 

hands-on role in the management and 

implementation of the project. Please 

note that substantive involvement by 

the environment and health 

departments is a key evaluation 

criterion. Projects that are essentially 

pass-through funding to a third party for 

independent implementation will not 

meet the evaluation criteria. Examples 

of substantive collaborative involvement 

include but are not limited to: 

(1) Both agencies/departments 

dedicating personnel; 

(2) Agencies/departments cosponsoring and presenting at crucial 

workshops and meetings; or 

(3) Both agencies/departments being 

involved in peer reviews of documents 

and/or products. 

g. Statutory Criterion 

Applicants must meet standards for 

eligibility described in section 103(b)(3) 

of the CAA (http://www.epa.gov/oar/

caa/caa103.txt).

h. Incurring Costs 

Pre-award costs will not be covered 

under this solicitation. Grant recipients 

may begin incurring allowable costs on 

the date identified in the EPA award 

agreement. Activities must be 

completed and funds spent within the 

time frames specified in the award 

agreement. EPA grant funds may be 

used only for the purposes set forth in 

the grant agreement and must conform 

to the Federal cost principles contained 

in OMB Circular A–87; A–122; and A–

21, as appropriate. Ineligible costs will 

be reduced from the final grant. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching 

Cost sharing or matching funds are 

not required for this solicitation. 

3. Other Eligibility Criteria 

a. Responsiveness Criteria That Will 

Make An Application Ineligible 

(1) Letters of Intent 

The Letter of Intent must comply with 

the following responsiveness criteria to 

be eligible to submit a Full Proposal: 

Applicant eligibility, completeness, 

administrative responsiveness, and 

timeliness of submission.

(2) Full Proposal 

The Full Proposal must comply with 

the following responsiveness criteria for 

the Full Proposal to be reviewed for 

possible award: Timeliness of shipment, 

administrative responsiveness, order of 

materials presentation, completeness, 

original signatures as required, required 

number of copies and the absence of 

unnecessary materials and extraneous 

information. 

b. Multiple Proposals 

State, territorial and tribal 

departments/agencies and state/

territorial/tribal or regional (e.g. the 

asthma coalition of the greater 

metropolitan area of Smallville) asthma 

coalitions addressing environmental 

triggers of childhood asthma with 

substantive involvement of these 

government department/agency partners 

(as described above in section III) may 

submit more than one proposal if the 

proposals are for different projects. 

However, no more than one grant will 

be awarded under this offering to any 

given state, territory or tribal entity or 

state/territorial/tribal or regional asthma 

coalition serving a given geographic 

area. Environment and health 

departments/agencies of state, territorial 

and tribal organizations are encouraged 

to collaborate with joint proposals 

under this solicitation that is focused on 

bringing environment and health 

departments/agencies together to 

address environmental triggers of 

childhood asthma. 

Section IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address To Request Application 

Package 

This is a two-stage application 

process involving a Letter of Intent 

which is evaluated for basic eligibility, 

administrative and technical 

responsiveness. Applicants submitting 

acceptable Letters of Intent will be 

invited to participate in a Pre-proposal 

assistance conference call and to submit 

a Full Proposal. 

A sample Letter of Intent is provided 

at the end of this solicitation. Paper 

copies of this announcement, the 

sample Letter of Intent and the requisite 

forms for the Full Proposal can be 

obtained by contacting EPA personnel 

listed in Section VII of this solicitation. 

Electronic copies of the requisite forms 

for the Full Proposal are available at 

http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/

ochpweb.nsf/content/grants.htm. If your 

Full Proposal is selected for possible 

award, your EPA Regional Office will 

supply you with any additional Federal 

forms needed to process your Full 

Proposal for award. 

2. Content and Form of Application 

(Proposal) Submission 

a. Stage 1

(1) Stage 1 Content and Form of Letter 

of Intent 

(a) Stage 1 of this application process 

is a Letter of Intent (Up to two pages in 

length) which is due via e-mail to 

fletcher.bettina@epa.gov on or before 

October 15, 2004. Letters of Intent must 

have an email subject line starting with 

Letter of Intent: Followed by your 

Project Title. Email confirmation of 

receipt will be sent within two business 

days of receipt. 

(b) Email submission of the Letter of 

Intent is strongly preferred. However, if 

email is not available, the Letter of 

Intent may be faxed to the attention of 

Bettina B. Fletcher at 202–564–2733. If 

a confirming phone call for fax 

transmissions is not received within two 

business days, a phone call should be 

made to Bettina Fletcher at 202–564–

2646 to initiate a trace. 

(c) A sample Letter of Intent is 

provided at the end of this solicitation. 

A copy also can be found at: http://

yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/

content/grants.htm. 

(d) Your Letter of Intent must provide 

all of the following information in the 

following order:

(Section 1) Contact information for 

your organization: 

(1) Name of your organization. 

(2) Project name. 

(3) Name of authorized representative. 

(4) Address. 

(5) Phone number and fax number. 

(6) E-mail address. 

(7) Web site, if any. 

(Section 2) A brief description of how 

your organization fits each stated 

eligibility criterion and how your 

organization proposes to collaborate 

with the other agency(ies)/

department(s). 

(Section 3) One page project summary 

including: 

(1) Dollar value of the project; 

(2) Description of the organizational 

unit which will lead/oversee the project; 

(3) A brief summary statement that 

articulates the project’s concept and 

states its goals and objectives; 

(4) A brief description of how this 

project will meet the Statutory Criteria. 

(5) Identification of the specific Target 

Investment Area and the specific Target 

Project Area addressed by the project; 

(6) A brief summary of the method 

that will be used to achieve the project 

goals and how the outcomes will be 

measured; 

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(7) Summary of the kinds of activities 

that will be funded by the project and; 

(8) A brief description of the role the 

state, territorial, or tribal environment 

and health agencies or state, territorial 

or tribal members of your state/

territorial/tribal or regional asthma 

coalition will play in this project. 

(Section 4) Indication of Interest in 

Participating in Optional Pre-proposal 

Assistance Call and Special Needs: 

(1) Indication if you would like to 

participate in the October 26, 2004 

optional Pre-proposal Assistance Call if

your Letter of Intent is accepted.

Note: Letters of Intent submitted to EPA 

will be evaluated for basic eligibility, 

administrative and technical responsiveness. 

Only those proposals satisfying all the 

requirements will be invited to submit a Full 

Proposal; and

(2) Indication of any special needs to 

permit participation on such a call. 

b. Stage 2 Full Proposals, If Invited By 

EPA 

Stage 2 of this application process is 

a Full Proposal (including optional Preproposal Assistance Conference Call). 

Note: IF your Letter of Intent is 

accepted, you will be invited to 

participate in Stage 2

(1) Optional Pre-proposal Assistance 

Conference Call 

An optional Pre-proposal Assistance 

Conference Call will be held on October 

26, 2004, to answer any questions 

prospective eligible applicants may 

have. If you indicate in your Letter of 

Intent a desire to participate in the Preproposal Assistance Conference Call 

and your Letter of Intent is found to be 

eligible, you will be emailed 

instructions for participating in the 

conference call.

Note: Applicants should periodically check 

the web page below for updated information 

to applicants (e.g., posting of some Qs & As 

from Letters of Intent). A summary of the 

questions and answers from the October 26, 

2004 optional Pre-proposal Assistance Call 

will be posted by November 2, 2004 at: http:/

/yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/

content/grants.htm.

(2) Required Content and Form of Full 

Proposal, if Invited to Submit One 

Note: You must complete both the 

EPA Application Kit for Federal 

Assistance and the Work Plan Proposal 

Narrative as described below:

(a) Table of Contents with page 

numbers for all elements of this 

submission. 

(b) EPA Application Kit for Federal 

Assistance. 

The EPA Application Kit for Federal 

Assistance can be obtained on the Web 

at http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/

ochpweb.nsf/content/grants.htm or 

http://www.epa.gov/ogd/grants/

how_to_apply.htm. 

(c) Completed SF–424A Budget 

Forms. http://www.epa.gov/ogd/grants/

how_to_apply.htm contains information 

about completing SF–424A Budget 

Forms and Understanding Cost 

Principles for a Federal grant. 

(d) Work Plan Proposal Narrative: 

In addition to the standard forms 

contained in the EPA Application Kit 

for Federal Assistance and the SF–424A 

budget forms, you must submit a Work 

Plan Proposal Narrative of no longer 

than 12 pages (plus appendices) that 

follows exactly the format outlined 

below. Pages and information submitted 

out of order will not be reviewed. Text 

may be single or double spaced, no 

smaller than 12 point font. The pages 

must be letter sized (81⁄2x11 inches). 

Margins are not specified. Proposals 

must be legible. Note: All proposals 

should be well explained and easily 

read. Information should be clear and 

concise, well organized and contain no 

unnecessary jargon. The Work Plan 

Proposal Narrative Content should 

include: 

(i) Contact Information Sheet (1 page):

For the project lead and each 

collaborating partner, include contact 

name, organization, title, address, 

phone, fax, and e-mail. 

(ii) Letter of Intent: Include a copy of 

your previously submitted Letter of 

Intent as a project summary. 

(iii) Project Description (Up to 5 

pages): Describe precisely what your 

project will achieve. In your narrative, 

answer these questions in this order: 

Question 1. Who will conduct the 

project? What are the specific roles and 

responsibilities of the state, territorial 

and tribal representatives in this 

project? What experience do the 

partners have in addressing 

environmental triggers of childhood 

asthma? What is the nature of your 

agencies’/departments’ or coalition’s ongoing programs addressing children’s 

environmental health. What will be the 

roles and responsibilities of any other 

partners? Who will be affected by and/

or benefit from your project? How will 

they be targeted, identified, and 

recruited? 

Question 2. Why is it needed? 

Question 3. What is the purpose of 

your project? Explain your strategy— 

your goals and objectives, the specific 

activities you will conduct to achieve 

them, and what your projected 

outcomes will be. How will you 

evaluate your results and your level of 

success? Describe any mechanisms for 

tracking outputs (e.g. how many 

households were educated, how many 

facilities were assessed, in how many 

facilities were actions taken), and 

evaluating outcomes (e.g. the 

effectiveness of the education and 

mitigation efforts to (1) decrease their 

measured levels of asthma triggers in 

children’s environments and/or (2) 

decrease the number of times children 

access acute care services for asthma 

(e.g. frequency and severity of asthma 

attacks, frequency of asthma-related 

absences and the level of increased 

awareness); How will the project be 

sustained beyond the life of the EPA 

grant? 

Question 4. How will project 

deliverables and/or findings be 

presented/packaged to be shared with 

and replicated by other states, 

territories, tribes or state/territorial/

tribal or regional asthma coalitions? 

Question 5. All projects should be 

completed prior to June 15, 2006. 

Outline a detailed time line/

responsibility matrix to link your 

project activities to a clear project 

schedule. Indicate at what point over 

the months of your budget period each 

action, project outcome or milestone 

occurs and indicate which partner is 

responsible for each action. Note:

Tabular or graphic presentation of this 

information is acceptable for this time 

line; smaller but readable typeface is 

allowed for this information 

(e) Project Budget (1–2 pages):

(i) Personnel (For Each Positions: % 

of Time Worked, Annual Salary, Salary 

Proposed for this Project). 

(ii) Fringe Benefits (Full-time Rate). 

(iii) Long Distance Travel 

(Destination, Cost of Trip, # of 

Travelers, # of Trips, Amt. Proposed). 

(iv) Air Fare (Destination, # Travelers, 

# Trips). 

(v) Local Travel (Destination, 

Distance, Mileage, # Travelers). 

(vi) Direct Cost—Equipment 

(Quantity, Cost per Unit, Amt. 

Proposed). 

(vii) Direct Cost—Supplies (Quantity, 

Cost per Unit, Amt. Proposed). 

(viii) Direct Cost—Other e.g. Phone, 

Postage, Conference Calls (Quantity, 

Cost per Unit, Amt. Proposed). 

(ix) Direct Cost—Contracts (Direct 

Labor, Overhead @__rate, Materials and 

Supplies, G&A Rate). 

(x) Direct Cost—Consultants (Skill, 

Quantity, Rate). 

(xi) Indirect Cost Charges (Total Direct 

Costs × __% (indirect cost rate = 

Estimated).

Note: Eligible Expenses—salaries/fringe, 

travel, communications, equipment rental, 

indirect overhead, public outreach efforts 

(workshops, public forums, meeting 

expenses), office expenses, printing and 

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copying (conference and promotional 

materials), and Web site dissemination of 

information related to the project.

Note: Ineligible Expenses—capital 

expenditures, construction expenses, 

lobbying, endowments, formal educational 

expenses, entertainment, remediation and 

removal expenses, medical equipment and 

supplies, air sampling, and equipment 

purchases as the sole focus of the assistance 

agreement.

(f) Appendices: Include project 

specific letters of commitment from 

each state, territorial or tribal 

environment, health and other agencies 

as well as major partners involved in the 

success of this project. Include resumes 

for key personnel as well. Letters of 

commitment focus on the partner’s role 

in the proposed project. Do not submit 

letters of general support, they will not 

be reviewed. Do not include any 

materials other than letters of 

commitment for this project and 

resumes. 

3. Other Instructions 

(a) Required Contents of Full Proposal 

Package 

To support the EPA review process, 

the proposal must contain one complete 

Full Proposal package with original 

signatures in contrasting ink and nine 

duplicate hard copy sets of the Full 

Proposal package including the 

following materials in the order listed 

below: 

(1) Table of Contents with page 

numbers for all elements of this 

submission. 

(2) Completed EPA Application Kit 

for Federal Assistance. 

(3) Completed SF 424A Budget Forms. 

(4) Work Plan Proposal Narrative 

consisting of: 

(i) Contact Information Sheet. 

(ii) Copy of the Letter of Intent. 

(iii) Project Description. 

(5) Project Budget.

(6) Appendices exactly as defined in 

Section IV. Application and Submission 

Information. 

To support the EPA review process, 

the proposal is required to contain one 

complete Full Proposal package with 

original signatures in contrasting ink 

and nine duplicate hard copy sets of the 

Full Proposal package including the 

following materials in the order listed 

above. 

Do not submit additional items. 

Unnecessary materials (cover letters, unrequested forms or binders) will make 

your proposal ineligible. 

(b) DUNS Instructions 

Grant applicants are required to 

provide a Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) 

Data Universal Numbering System 

(DUNS) number when applying for 

Federal grants or cooperative 

agreements. The DUNS number will 

supplement other identifiers required by 

statute or regulation, such as tax 

identification numbers. Organizations 

can receive a DUNS number in one day, 

at no cost, by calling the dedicated tollfree DUNS Number request line at 1–

866–705–5711. Individuals who would 

personally receive a grant or cooperative 

agreement award from the Federal 

government apart from any business or 

non-profit organization they may 

operate are exempt from this 

requirement. The Web site where an 

organization can obtain a DUNS number 

is: http://www.dnb.com. This process 

takes 30 business days and there is no 

cost unless the organization requests 

expedited (1-day) processing, which 

includes a fee of $40. 

(c) Other Instructions 

Successful Stage 2 Applicants must 

submit the following information after 

EPA notifies them of its intent to make 

an award, but prior to the award: quality 

assurance plan for any project involving 

environmental data; evidence of 

compliance with human subjects 

requirements where research is found to 

be involved. 

4. Submission Dates and Times 

(a) A required Stage 1 Letter of Intent 

is due via email to 

fletcher.bettina@epa.gov on or before 

October 15, 2004 as indicated on the 

email transmission. If email is 

unavailable, a fax submission may be 

used. The same due date applies and the 

date will be determined by the date 

registered on the receiving fax machine 

log and printed on the received 

documents by said machine. A 

confirming email will be sent within 

two working days of receipt of e-mailed 

Letters of Intent. A confirming phone 

call will be made within two working 

days of receipt for faxed Letters of 

Intent. The applicant should follow up 

with a phone call to Bettina Fletcher at 

202–564–2646 if a confirmation is not 

received within the stated time frames. 

Email and fax transmissions received 

after October 15, 2004 will not be 

reviewed. 

(b) Applicants submitting a Letter of 

Intent will be notified via email on or 

before October 22, 2004 if they are 

deemed eligible to participate in the 

optional Pre-proposal Assistance Call 

and to submit a Full Proposal. 

(c) Applicants with accepted Letters 

of Intent who expressed an interest in 

participating in the optional Preproposal Assistance Call will be advised 

in this email on or before October 22, 

2004 of the call-in number and the 

specific time for the call. 

(d) All questions before and after the 

October 26, 2004 Pre-proposal 

Assistance Call, must be sent by email 

to the following address: 

fletcher.bettina@epa.gov. The word 

‘‘QUESTION’’ in capital letters and the 

name of the solicitation should appear 

in the subject line. Answers to allowable 

questions will be provided in a timely 

manner at: http://yosemite.epa.gov/

ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/grants.htm. 

EPA will not respond to technical 

questions by phone or fax. 

(e) Optional Pre-proposal Assistance 

Call will be held on October 26, 2004. 

(f) A summary of the questions and 

answers from the October 26 2004 Preproposal Conference Call will be posted 

on the OCHP Web site http://

yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/

content/grants.htm on or before 

November 2, 2004. 

(g) To ensure fair and open 

competition, EPA will respond to 

questions submitted by email up to 

December 17, 2004. Questions and 

answers will be posted in a timely 

manner at: http://yosemite.epa.gov/

ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/grants.htm. 

(h) Full Proposals from invited 

eligible applicants must be delivered to 

the private shipping company (e.g., 

Federal Express, UPS, DHL, or courier) 

for shipment or postmarked (see note in 

Section VIII) by the U.S. Post Office (not 

a private postage meter) postmark on or 

before December 29, 2004. Full 

Proposals shipped or mailed after this 

date will not be considered for funding 

under this solicitation. Date of shipment 

will be determined by the shipping 

company’s shipping information or the 

U.S. Post Office (not a private postage 

meter) postmark on the shipping 

package depending upon the method of 

shipment. 

(i) Applicants will receive an email 

notification of receipt of the Full 

Proposal within one month of receipt by 

the Agency. 

(j) The Selected Projects will be 

announced as their award negotiations 

are completed around late spring 2005. 

Those projects not selected for award in 

this funding cycle will also be notified 

at this time. 

(k) Start Date for Projects: June 15, 

2005 is the earliest start date that 

applicants should plan on and enter on 

their proposal forms and time lines. 

Grant recipients may begin incurring 

allowable costs on the start date 

identified in the EPA grant award 

agreement. Budget periods may run up 

to 12 months from the date of award. 

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5. Intergovernmental Review: 

Applicants may be subject to 

Executive Order 12372. 

‘‘Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs.’’ See http://

www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants/

spoc.html for more details. 

6. Funding Restrictions

a. Eligible Expenses 

Salaries/fringe, travel, 

communications, equipment rental, 

indirect overhead, public outreach 

efforts (workshops, public forums, 

meeting expenses), office expenses, 

printing and copying (conference and 

promotional materials), and web site 

dissemination of information related to 

the project. 

b. Ineligible Expenses 

Capital expenditures, construction 

expenses, lobbying, endowments, 

formal educational expenses, 

entertainment, remediation and removal 

expenses, medical equipment and 

supplies, air sampling, and equipment 

purchases as the sole focus of the 

assistance agreement. 

c. Incurring Costs 

Pre-award costs will not be covered 

under this solicitation. Grant recipients 

may begin incurring allowable costs on 

the date identified in the EPA award 

agreement. Activities must be 

completed and funds spent within the 

time frames specified in the award 

agreement. EPA grant funds may be 

used only for the purposes set forth in 

the grant agreement and must conform 

to the Federal cost principles contained 

in OMB Circular A–87; A–122; and A–

21, as appropriate. Ineligible costs will 

be reduced from the final grant. 

7. Other Submission Requirements 

a. Do not submit additional items. 

Unnecessary materials (i.e. un-requested 

forms or binders) create extra burden for 

the reviewers and failure to follow 

instructions may render your project 

ineligible. 

b. Letters of Intent must be sent via 

email to fletcher.bettina@ epa.gov. If 

email is not available, Letters of Intent 

may be faxed to Bettina Fletcher at 202–

564–2733. 

c. Because of continuing delays in the 

delivery of mailed parcels, Full 

Proposals are best delivered by a private 

shipping company (e.g., Federal 

Express, UPS, DHL, or courier) to the 

attention of: Bettina Fletcher, U.S. EPA, 

Office of Children’s Health Protection, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW., Mail Code 

1107A, Room 2512 Ariel Rios North, 

Washington, DC 20004. 

If the applicant has no ability to send 

the Full Proposal in by way of a private 

shipping company, the Full Proposal 

may be mailed to the attention of: 

Bettina Fletcher, U.S. EPA, Office of 

Children’s Health Protection, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave, NW., Mail Code 

1107A, Room 2512 Ariel Rios North, 

Washington, DC 20460.

Note: To document the date of shipment, 

Full Proposal packages must be postmarked 

by the U.S. Post Office, not by a private 

postage meter.

d. If the applicant experiences 

technical difficulties in making a 

submission, contact Bettina Fletcher at 

202–564–2646 immediately. 

Section V. Application Review 

Information 

1. Criteria 

a. Letter of Intent

(1) Administrative Responsiveness 

Criteria 

The Letter of Intent must comply with 

the following responsiveness criteria to 

be eligible to submit a Full Proposal: 

Applicant eligibility, completeness, 

administrative responsiveness, and 

timeliness of submission. 

(2) Technical Responsiveness Criteria 

The Letters of Intent will also be 

compared to Statutory Criteria, Target 

Investment Areas and the Target Project 

Areas in this solicitation. Applicants 

whose projects are clearly not 

responsive to the published Statutory 

Criteria, Target Investment Areas and 

Target Project Areas may not be invited 

to submit a Full Proposal. 

b. Full Proposal 

(1) Administrative Responsiveness 

Criteria 

The Full Proposal must comply with 

the following responsiveness criteria for 

the Full Proposal to be reviewed for 

possible award: timeliness of shipment, 

administrative responsiveness, order of 

materials presentation, completeness, 

original signatures as required, required 

number of copies and the absence of 

unnecessary materials and extraneous 

information. 

(2) Multiple Proposals 

State, territorial and tribal 

departments/agencies and state/

territorial/tribal or regional (e.g. the 

asthma coalition of the greater 

metropolitan area of Smallville) asthma 

coalitions asthma coalitions addressing 

environmental triggers of childhood 

asthma with substantive involvement of 

these government department/agency 

partners (as described above in Section 

III) may submit more than one proposal 

if the proposals are for different 

projects. However, no more than one 

grant will be awarded under this 

offering to any given state, territory or 

tribal entity or state/territorial/tribal or 

regional asthma coalition serving a 

given geographic area. Environment and 

health departments/agencies of State, 

territorial and tribal organizations are 

encouraged to collaborate with joint 

proposals under this solicitation that is 

focused on bringing environment and 

health departments/agencies together to 

address environmental triggers of 

childhood asthma. 

(3) Technical Review (Maximum Score: 

110 Points) 

Each Full Proposal will be scored 

based on how well it meets the specific 

selection criteria below. 

(a) Describes Collaboration Between 

Environment, Health and Other 

Appropriate Agencies for States, 

Territories or Tribes in Partnership or 

Through State/Territorial/Tribal or 

Regional Asthma Coalitions (Maximum 

Points: 30) 

The proposal describes substantive 

collaborative partnerships to address the 

environmental triggers of childhood 

asthma. Letters of commitment 

specifically describe activities of the 

partners for this project. Significant, 

sustained involvement of senior 

representatives of state, territorial or 

tribal environment, health, and related 

agency officials is documented. The 

organization is appropriate to do this 

project. The project does not principally 

pass-through funds to an independent 

third party. 

(b) Focuses efforts upon and benefits 

Target Investment Area (Maximum 

Points: 20) 

The proposal describes how the 

project will specifically benefit one or 

more the Target Investment Areas. 

Describes the need for this project in 

this Target Investment Area and how it 

will reduce risks for children’s 

environmental health in this Target 

Investment Area. 

(c) Addresses Needs in Target Project 

Area (Maximum Points: 30) 

The proposal describes how the 

project will specifically address the 

significant environmental issues around 

childhood asthma in the context of one 

or more of the Target Project Areas. The 

proposal includes specific goals and 

objectives with measurable, achievable 

outputs and outcomes. Proposal uses 

existing tools with demonstrated 

effectiveness such as facility assessment 

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checklists rather than investing 

resources to recreate already-available 

materials. The proposal includes steps 

and methodology to track outputs. The 

project includes evaluation steps to 

measure degree of success for the 

project and to make mid-course 

adjustments, if needed. The project has 

addressed potential sources of resources 

and mechanisms for sustaining the 

project after this EPA funding cycle has 

been completed. 

(d) Cost Effective Budget (Maximum 

Points: 20) 

The proposal budget reflects: 

reasonable costs and efficient use of 

resources for the work proposed. Funds 

are not used as pass-through funding to 

a third party for project implementation. 

This subsection will be scored on: (1) 

How well the budget information clearly 

and accurately shows how funds will be 

used, (2) whether there funding request 

is reasonable given the activity 

proposed, and (3) whether the funding 

can be expected to provide a good 

return on the investment. Proposal 

leverages funding from other agencies 

and programs to increase the 

accomplishment of this project without 

raising concerns of double billing for the 

same work. 

(e) Bonus Points (Points: Up to 10) 

Reviewers have the flexibility to 

provide from zero to 10 bonus points for 

exceptional project qualities in 

accordance with one or more of the 

following principles of quality and 

efficacy: 

(1) Applicant’s materials are 

consistent with EPA guidance and 

recommendations. In particular, 

applicant outlines educational materials 

and mitigation methods for second-hand 

tobacco smoke, house dust mites, 

cockroaches, molds, and animal dander 

that are compatible with the guidance 

contained in EPA’s asthma brochure, A 

Clear Your Home of Asthma Triggers: 

Your Children Will Breathe Easier, 

http://www.epa.gov/asthma/

resources.html and the findings and 

recommendations contained in the 

January, 2000 National Academy of 

Sciences report on asthma, A Clearing 

the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air 

Exposures, http://books.nap.edu/

catalog/9610.html.

(2) Projects focused upon ambient air 

pollutants and asthma are consistent 

with EPA guidance that can be accessed 

through http://www.epa.gov/air/topics/

comap.html.

(3) Use of education materials 

reflecting current standards for 

conducting environmental health or 

public health education and outreach 

activities, particularly with respect to 

motivating behavioral changes in lowliteracy, low-income, and 

disproportionately impacted 

populations. 

(4) Proposals including 

extraordinarily compelling examples 

and other strengths noted by the 

reviewers who evaluate and compare 

proposals. 

2. Review and Selection Process 

After individual projects are 

evaluated, scored, and ranked against 

the published criteria by EPA staff and 

peers external to the Agency, EPA may 

take into account the following factors 

in making their final selections: 

(a) Effectiveness of collaborative 

activities and partnerships, as needed to 

successfully implement the project; 

(b) Environmental and educational 

importance of the activity or product; 

(c) Effectiveness of the delivery 

mechanism (i.e. workshop, conference, 

etc.); 

(d) Cost effectiveness of the proposal; 

and 

(e) Geographic distribution of 

projects. 

3. Cost Analysis 

Projects recommended for possible 

funding based upon the findings of the 

reviewers and EPA’s consideration of 

the final selection factors described 

above receive a cost analysis to ensure 

that the project costs in the budget are 

reasonable, allocable, and allowable per 

OMB Cost Circulars A–87, A–122, and 

A–21 as appropriate. 

In the course of this Cost Analysis, 

unallowable and unproductive activities 

will be deleted and unreasonable costs 

will be deflated.

Section VI. Award Administration 

Information 

1. Award Notices 

Organizations submitting Letters of 

Intent will be notified regarding their 

successful or unsuccessful Stage 1 

application via email on or before 

October 22, 2004. 

Project Officers of organizations with 

Full Proposals that were selected for 

possible award (pending successful 

award negotiations) will be contacted 

around the spring of 2005 by the 

appropriate Regional Project Officer to 

work through the awards process. Upon 

completion of a successful award 

negotiation and following a mandatory 

five day Congressional Notification 

Period, each successful grant applicant 

will receive a written notice signed by 

the EPA Project Officer/grants official. 

This document will serve as the 

authorizing document. This award 

notice will be faxed to the Key Contact 

as specified in the Full Proposal. 

Successful applicants must receive this 

document before drawing any funds. 

2. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements 

a. Responsible Officials 

Projects must be performed by the 

applicant/recipient or a designee within 

that organization who is satisfactory to 

the applicant and EPA. All proposals 

must identify any other person(s) and 

their organization(s) who will assist in 

carrying out the project. Recipients are 

responsible for receiving the grant 

award agreement from EPA and 

ensuring that all grant conditions are 

satisfied. Recipients are responsible for 

the successful completion of the project. 

b. Incurring Costs 

No pre-award costs should be 

incurred by the recipient. Grant 

recipients may begin incurring 

allowable costs on the start date 

identified in the EPA grant award 

agreement. Activities must be 

completed and funds spent within the 

time frames specified in the award 

agreement. EPA grant funds may be 

used only for the purposes set forth in 

the grant agreement and must conform 

to the Federal cost principles contained 

in OMB Circular A–87, A–122, and A–

21, as appropriate. Ineligible costs will 

be reduced from the final grant award. 

c. Materials To Be Provided by the 

Successful Stage 2 Applicants After EPA 

Notifies Them of Its Intent To Make an 

Award 

The Successful Stage 2 Applicant 

must submit the following information 

after EPA notifies them of its intent to 

make an award, but prior to the award: 

Quality assurance plan for any project 

involving environmental data; evidence 

of compliance with human subjects 

requirements where research is found to 

be involved. 

3. Reporting 

Specific financial and other reporting 

requirements will be identified in the 

EPA grant award agreement. Grant 

recipients must submit the standard 

formal quarterly progress reports, unless 

otherwise instructed in the award 

agreement. A quality assurance plan 

will be required if environmental data 

are collected. Also, two copies of the 

final report and two copies of all work 

products must be sent to the EPA 

project officer within 90 days after the 

expiration of the budget period. This 

submission will be accepted as the final 

requirement, unless the EPA project 

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officer notifies the recipient that 

changes must be made. 

Section VII. Agency Contact 

1. Contact Information 

Bettina B. Fletcher; Office of 

Children’s Health Protection; 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave, NW.; Mail Code 

1107A; Room 2512 Ariel Rios North; 

Washington, DC 20004–2403; 

fletcher.bettina@epa.gov; Phone: (202) 

564–2646; FAX (202) 564–2733; Web 

Site: http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/

ochpweb.nsf/content/grants.htm. 

2. Mechanisms for Questions and 

Answers 

a. Applicants who need more 

information about this grant or 

clarification about specific requirements 

of this Solicitation Notice, should 

periodically check the Web page

http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/

ochpweb.nsf/content/grants.htm for 

posted information (e.g. administrative 

clarification and responses to Qs & As 

from Letters of Intent and participate, if 

eligible, in the Pre-proposal Assistance 

Conference Call). 

b. Specific clarifying questions can be 

posed via email to 

fletcher.bettina@epa.gov. The word 

‘‘QUESTION’’ in Capital Letters and the 

name of the solicitation should appear 

in the Subject Line. Responses to 

allowable questions will be posted in a 

timely manner on the OCHP Web site at: 

http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/

ochpweb.nsf/content/grants.htm. 

c. If email is absolutely not available, 

requests for materials may be made by 

FAX to 202–564–2733. Requests should 

be sent to the attention of Bettina B. 

Fletcher. 

d. To Ensure Fair And Open 

Competition, EPA Will Answer No 

Clarifying Questions In Person Except 

On The Pre-Proposal Conference Call. 

e. Applicants may submit questions 

via email to fletcher.bettina@epa.gov. 

Answers will be posted on the Web 

page: http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/

ochpweb.nsf/content/grants.htm. 

f. Questions and answers from the 

October 26, 2004 optional Pre-proposal 

Assistance Call will be summarized and 

posted within a week of the Assistance 

Call on the OCHP Web page at: http://

yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/

content/grants.htm. 

g. To ensure fair and open 

competition, EPA will respond to 

questions submitted by email up to 

December 17, 2004. Questions and 

answers will be posted in a timely 

manner at: http://yosemite.epa.gov/

ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/grants.htm. 

3. If paper copies of the EPA 

Application Kit for Federal Assistance 

are required, contact Bettina B. Fletcher 

at fletcher.bettina@epa.gov.

Section VIII. Other Information 

1. Examples of Potential Projects 

The following are examples of types 

of projects that EPA would consider for 

funding the Building State, Territorial, 

and Tribal Capacity to Address 

Children’s Environmental Health: 

Environmental Triggers of Childhood 

Asthma. The following are examples of 

components EPA considers to be 

elements of building state, territorial 

and tribal capacity to address children’s 

environmental health in the context of 

the environmental triggers of childhood 

asthma. These examples are illustrative 

only and are not intended to limit 

proposal ideas. 

• Design an asthma surveillance 

tracking system. 

• Linked an asthma surveillance 

tracking system with environmental 

data. 

• Design an asthma education 

program through a collaboration of the 

environment and health agencies. 

• Build state, territorial, tribal or 

regional capacity to decrease asthma 

incidence in areas with disproportionate 

impact from environmental health 

hazards. 

• Sponsor state, territorial, tribal or 

regional workshops to train school 

officials, day care facility operators, 

health officials, parents of school-aged 

children on air quality and 

environmental triggers of childhood 

asthma in schools and day care 

facilities. 

• Create a technical resource and 

training center for state, territorial, tribal 

or regional community air risk screening 

as well as a resource for pollution and 

exposure prevention related to 

childhood asthma.

• Target reduction of smoke 

including environmental tobacco 

smoke, smoke from burning of trash, 

and smoke from field burning through 

education and awareness campaigns. 

• Facilitate productive dialogues and 

strategy development among states, 

territories, tribal and regions as well as 

across disciplines regarding asthma 

tracking and surveillance and the 

development of healthier day care 

facilities and schools. 

• Conduct multilingual, multicultural outreach and education 

activities that result in better health 

outcomes related to childhood asthma. 

• Conduct an education and outreach 

campaign in low-income, diverse 

neighborhoods on vehicle idling, 

ambient and indoor air quality and 

childhood asthma. 

2. Resources 

a. Please visit our Web site for 

information on children’s 

environmental health issues and these 

grant materials at http://

yosemite.epa.gov/ochp and http://

yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/

content/grants.htm respectively. 

b. We strongly suggest that applicants 

examine the ECOS/ASTHO state draft 

action agenda, Catching Your Breath, 

http://www.astho.org/pubs/

CatchingYourBreathReport.pdf for 

background on state/asthma activities. 

c. First time recipients of Federal 

funds are encouraged to familiarize 

themselves with the regulations 

applicable to assistance agreements 

found in the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) Title 40, part 31 for 

State and local government entities. See 

http://www.epa.gov/docs/epacfr40/

chapt-I.info/subch-B.html. Applicants 

may also obtain a copy of the CFR Title 

40, part 31 at the local U.S. Government 

Bookstore, or through the U.S. 

Government Printing Office. This 

solicitation notice contains all the 

information and forms necessary to 

prepare a Letter of Intent. If your project 

is selected as a finalist after the 

evaluation process is concluded, EPA 

will provide you with additional 

Federal forms needed to process your 

Full Proposal. 

3. Regulatory References 

EPA’s regulations on procurement 

under assistance agreements can be 

found in 40 Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR) 30.40 (for non-governmental 

recipients) and 40 CFR 31.36 (for 

governments). 

4. Dispute Resolution Process 

Dispute Resolution Process: 

Procedures are in 40 CFR 30.63 and 40 

CFR 31.70. 

5. Shipping Information for Full 

Proposals, If Invited By EPA 

Due to on-going mail delays in the 

Washington, DC area, applicants who 

are invited to submit a Full Proposal are 

strongly encouraged to send all required 

materials by way of a private shipping 

company (e.g., Federal Express, UPS, 

DHL, or courier) to the attention of: 

Bettina Fletcher, U.S. EPA, Office of 

Children’s Health Protection, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave, NW., Mail Code 

1107A, Room 2512 Ariel Rios North, 

Washington, DC 20004. 

If the applicant has no ability to send 

the Full Proposal in by way of a private 

shipping company, the Full Proposal 

may be mailed to the attention of: 

Bettina Fletcher, U.S. EPA, Office of 

Children’s Health Protection, 1200 

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Pennsylvania Ave, NW., Mail Code 

1107A, Room 2512 Ariel Rios North, 

Washington, DC 20460.

Note: To document the date of shipment, 

Full Proposal packages must be postmarked 

by the U.S. Post Office, not by a private 

postage meter.

6. The Agency Reserves the Right to 

Make No Awards Under This 

Solicitation 

7. Attachment 

Sample Letter of Intent (Up to 2 pages 

total) 

All state, tribal, territorial agencies/

departments and state/territorial/tribal 

or regional (e.g. the asthma coalition of 

the greater metropolitan area of 

Smallville) asthma coalitions who 

intend to apply should complete this 

Letter of Intent information and return 

it to EPA via email to 

fletcher.bettina@epa.gov by October 15, 

2004.

* * * * *

Section 1 

Organization Name: 

Project Name: 

Applicant Address: 

Street: 

City: 

State, Zip Code: 

Applicant Phone Number: 

Applicant FAX Number: 

Applicant Email Address: 

Applicant Web Site (if any): 

Authorized Representative of the 

Organization:

* * * * *

Section 2 

Brief description of how your 

organization fits each stated eligibility 

criterion and how how your 

organization proposes to collaborate 

with other agency(ies)/departments in 

this project.

Section 3—Project Summary (Not To 

Exceed One Page) 

Description of the organizational unit 

that will lead/oversee the project: 

Brief summary statement that articulates 

the project’s concept and states its 

goals and objectives: 

A brief description of how this project 

will meet the Statutory Criteria: 

Identification of the specific Target 

Investment Area and specific Target 

Project Area addressed by the project: 

Brief summary of the method that will 

be used to achieve the project goals 

and how the outcomes will be 

measured: 

Summary of the kind of activities that 

will be funded by the project: 

Brief description of the role the state, 

territorial, or tribal environment and 

health agencies or state, territorial or 

tribal members of your state/

territorial/tribal or regional asthma 

coalitions will play in this project: 

Section 4 

Indicate below whether your 

organization would like to participate in 

the October 26, 2004 optional Preproposal Assistance Call if Your Letter 

of Intent Is Found To Be Eligible. 

Questions and answers from the October 

26, 2004 Pre-proposal Assistance Call 

will be posted by November 2, 2004 at: 

http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/

ochpweb.nsf/content/grants.htm. 

b Yes, I would like to participate in the 

October 26, 2004 Pre-proposal 

Assistance Call IF my Letter of Intent is 

found by EPA to be eligible. 

b No, I decline to participate in the 

October 26, 2004 Pre-proposal 

Assistance Call if my Letter of Intent is 

found by EPA to be acceptable. 

b Please describe any type of support 

[e.g. Telephone for the Deaf (TDD) 

number and/or Federal Information 

Relay (FIR)] you require to permit 

participation in the Pre-proposal 

Assistance Conference Call. 

Section 5 

To help us prepare for the best 

possible Pre-proposal Assistance Call, 

please submit in advance any questions 

you have at this time regarding this 

application process. 

Additional questions may also be 

posed on the call.

Dated: September 21, 2004. 

Joanne Rodman, 

Acting Director, Office of Children’s Health 

Protection.

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ACTION: Notice of information collection 

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approval under the Paperwork 

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SUMMARY: In accordance with 

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OMB Number: 3064–0083. 

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