shall award grants to local governments or consortia of 
local governments, which may be acting in coordination 
with one or more nongovernmental entities. The grants 
shall be used to develop solid waste prevention and recy-
cling tactics and operations, which may include— 
(1) development or deployment of technologies 
or practices to increase rates of waste prevention, re-
cycling, composting, or product reuse; 
(2) capital investment in infrastructure to start 
or expand waste prevention, recycling, composting, 
or product reuse programs; 
(3) partnerships with local businesses interested 
in incorporating new technologies or processes to re-
duce or prevent waste in production or packaging; or 
(4) community outreach and public education 
programming, including programming to— 
(A) increase community knowledge of ef-
fective waste prevention, recycling, composting, 
or product reuse practices; and 
(B) increase behavior that will reduce over-
all household waste generation. 
SEC. 3. GRANT REVIEW. 
(a) GRANT AWARDEES.—Grants shall be awarded 
under this Act to applicants that collectively represent a 
range of existing waste prevention, recycling, composting, 
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and product reuse rates. In order to be considered for this 
award, applicants must— 
(1) set specific waste prevention, recycling, 
composting, product reuse, or public education goals 
that will bring communities closer to zero waste; 
(2) have a clearly established plan to use grant 
funds for one or more of the purposes described in 
section 2; and 
(3) meet other criteria as determined by the 
Administrator. 
(b) ADDITIONAL FACTORS.—Additional weight may 
be given to the applications of local governments or con-
sortia that— 
(1) have statutorily committed to zero waste 
principles; 
(2) demonstrate job creation; 
(3) address the disproportionate environmental, 
health, and economic burden of waste disposal that 
is borne by communities of color and low income; 
(4) propose to use funds for waste prevention 
or recycling programs in schools; 
(5) employ adaptive management practices to 
identify and address unintended consequences as 
they arise, including potential contamination of land, 
water, air, or food; 
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(6) have a demonstrated need for additional in-
vestment in infrastructure and programs to achieve 
waste prevention or recycling; 
(7) will drive technologies for product reuse, re-
cycling, composting, or waste prevention; 
(8) demonstrate ways in which the grant will 
encourage further investment in waste prevention, 
recycling, composting, or product reuse projects; or 
(9) incorporate multistakeholder involvement, 
including nonprofit, commercial, and public sector 
partners. 
SEC. 4. REPORTING. 
Grant awardees shall report to the Administrator the 
results of their project and relevant data requested by the 
Administrator to track the grant program’s impact. 
SEC. 5. ANNUAL CONFERENCE. 
The Administrator shall convene or co-convene an an-
nual conference for current, past, and potential grantees, 
and other stakeholders, to learn from each other’s experi-
ences in moving toward a zero waste goal. 
SEC. 6. DEFINITION. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘recycling’’ means a series of 
activities by which material that has reached the end of 
its current use is processed into material utilized in the 
production of new products. 
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SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Ad-
ministrator $100,000,000 for the period encompassing fis-
cal years 2016 through 2021 for carrying out this Act. 
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