Performance Partnership Grants

States and Tribes can combine funds from two or more eligible grant programs into a PPG. A key benefit of the PPG is that it requires only one application and one budget, regardless of the number of eligible programs included in the PPG. Applicants are not required to submit separate budgets for each individual program when funds are included in a PPG. Additionally, a PPG is managed through one consolidated work plan for all programs that are included in the PPG.
There are currently 18 grant programs that have been determined as eligible for inclusion in a PPG. For a list of eligible programs, which include competitive and/or non-competitive grants, please visit the website at https://www.epa.gov/nepps

The agency supports the goals of Performance Partnership Grants (PPGs) which serve to: (1) strengthen partnerships between EPA and recipients through joint planning, priority setting, and efficient and effective management of resources; (2) provide states, Tribes, and interstate agencies with flexibility to direct resources where they are needed to address environmental and public health priorities; (3) link program activities more effectively with environmental and public health goals and environmental outcomes; (4) foster implementation of innovative approaches such as pollution prevention, ecosystem management, and community-based environmental protection strategies; and (5) provide savings by streamlining administrative requirements.

With a PPG, the required amount of the state cost share is the sum of the minimum nonfederal cost share required under each of the programs combined in the PPG. If a program has both a match and a maintenance of effort requirement, the greater of the two amounts will be used to calculate the minimum cost share attributed to that program. The nonfederal share of a PPG may be expended on work plan commitments without regard to the original source of the cost share requirement. The general rules for cost share are found at 2 CFR §200.306 and further described specifically for PPGs in 40 CFR §35.136 for the individual environmental programs. State PPG recipients should calculate a single, composite minimum cost share (based on the match or maintenance of effort requirements of each categorical grant included in the PPG) for each of their PPGs. For Tribal PPG recipients, there are no cost share or maintenance of effort requirements. EPA has a class exception from 40 CFR §35.536 in place that waives the required cost share from Tribal and intertribal consortia PPGs.