Request for Initial Proposals for Region 7 Regional Geographic Initiative Projects

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Request for Initial Proposals for Region 7 Regional Geographic Initiative Projects: EPA is soliciting initial proposals to implement Region 7's strategic riorities: critical ecosystems, sensitive populations, and agriculture. The critical ecosystem priority focuses on facilitating the protection and/or restoration of ecosystems in Region 7 which are critical to biodiversity, human quality of life, and/or landscape functions. The sensitive populations priority focuses on reducing environmental and health risks to children, older adults, and people with chronic illnesses. The agriculture priority focuses on developing partnerships and projects in the agriculture community emphasizing cleaner air, purer water, and better protected land. Proposals must support multi-statute Surveys, Studies and Investigations and Special Purpose projects associated with Air Quality, Acid Deposition, Drinking Water, Water Quality, Hazardous Waste, Toxic Substances, and Pesticides; to identify, develop and demonstrate necessary pollution control techniques; to prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution; and to evaluate the economic and social consequences of alternative strategies and mechanisms for use by those in economic, social, governmental, and environmental management positions.