Community Composting for Green Spaces (FY 2021-22)

Each grant project must create, improve, or expand community composting operations at multiple sites within one geographic Region as defined below. Each grant project must equitably and effectively provide composting infrastructure, training, guidance on composting Best Management Practices, technical assistance, employment, and support for green spaces throughout the Region, with an emphasis on serving Priority Population communities. Eligible grant projects include regional plans for outreach for the grant project and collaboration with community groups to increase composting of organics. All project sites must be located in California. Site selection must include a focus on project sites within or benefiting Priority Populations and prioritize that population in the following order. 1.Project sites located in and serving communities identified as disadvantaged communities. 2. Project sites located in and serving communities identified as low-income communities. 3. Project sites providing benefits to, but not located in, communities identified as disadvantaged or low-income communities. All project sites must result in the creation of new, improved, or expanded community composting sites. Grantee must provide proof that the project site is authorized for use for the grant term. Project sites must be within the Region for which the applicant applies.  Project sites must be publicly accessible for at least four hours per week. Projects must include testing of compost produced at each project site at least once during the Grant Term for quality and safety, including metal concentrations, physical contamination levels, and pathogen levels; and for specific characteristics, including pH, soluble salts, nutrient content, organic matter, maturity, stability, and physical contaminants (i.e., inerts, including glass, metal, and plastic). Funding $4,240,000 available for fiscal year (FY) 2021-22). Funds will be awarded to the highest scoring, passing application in each of the Regions. Grant Award amounts are determined by Region. Only one Application will be awarded in each Region. Regions are as follows: Inland Empire: Includes Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. Greater Los Angeles Area: Includes Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties. San Diego and Imperial Area: Includes San Diego, and Imperial Counties. Sacramento Valley: Includes Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Placer, Sacramento, Shasta, Sutter, Tehama, Yolo, and Yuba Counties. San Joaquin Valley: Includes Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Stanislaus, and Tulare Counties. San Francisco Bay Area: Includes Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, and San Benito Counties. Northern Area: Includes Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Siskiyou, Trinity, and Sierra Counties. Central Sierra: Includes Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties.