Funding-EPA - EPA
School Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Grants; July 29, 2013
Agency
Name
Environmental
Protection Agency
Description
EPA’s
Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) announces the availability of approximately $700,000
for assistance agreements to further, through research, development,
monitoring, public education, training, demonstrations, or studies, the
adoption of verifiable integrated pest management (IPM) by the nation’s
kindergarten to 12th grade public and tribal schools. IPM is a sustainable
approach to managing pests that combines biological, cultural, physical, and
chemical tools in a way that minimizes economic, health, and environmental
risks. A school IPM program uses easily implementable strategies to reduce
sources of food, water, and shelter for pests in school buildings and grounds.
Verifiable school IPM is an ongoing activity that includes all of these
documented elements: understanding pests; setting action thresholds for key
pests, i.e., knowing when to take action against key pests; monitoring for
pests, their locations and populations; removing conditions that allow pest
infestation; and using one or more effective pest control methods including
sanitation, structural maintenance, and nonchemical methods in place of or in
combination with pesticides.
Announcement
Number: EPA-OPP-13-002
Due
Date: Jul
29, 2013
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.epa.gov/pestwise/grants/proposals/2013-school-ipm-rfp-0614.pdf
Contact
Information
Cara
Finn, Phone 703-305-5659