EPA is soliciting project applications to support the Environmental Information Exchange Network (EN) to:

  • Facilitate sharing of environmental data, especially through shared and reusable services.
  • Reduce burden and avoid costs for co-regulators and the regulated community.
  • Streamline data collection and exchanges to improve its timeliness for decision making.
  • Increase the quality and access to environmental data through discovery, publishing, outbound and analytical services so it is more useful to environmental managers.
  • Increase data and IT management capabilities needed to fully participate in the EN.

EPA expects to award 25-35 grants of up to $500,000 each in FY24. Individual applicants may request up to $300,000 and eligible partnerships can request up to $500,000. At least 90 Tribes in the U.S. have already received funding under the Exchange Network program. For information on projects previously funded/ideas for potential projects, see the Summary of Previously Awarded EN Grants by Fiscal Year.