PPIS is intended to build and support state pollution prevention capabilities and to test, at the state level, innovative pollution prevention approaches and methodologies. Institutionalizing multimedia pollution prevention as an environmental management priority, establishing prevention goals, developing strategies to meet these goals, and integrating the pollution prevention ethic into state and regional institutions. Initiating demonstration projects that test and support innovative pollution prevention approaches and methodologies.
Eligible applicants are states and federally-recognized Indian tribes.
Awards are made through EPA regional offices. National Eligibility Criteria Must be pollution prevention as defined by the Act. Multimedia opportunities and impacts should be identified. Areas for significant risk reduction should be targeted. Other pollution prevention efforts in the state should be leveraged and integrated into the project.