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Funding Resources
Funding Resources
| Environmental Sustainability Grant Program | |
|---|---|
| Type of Incentive | Grant |
| Eligible States | National |
| Eligible Technology | Backpressure Turbine, Boiler, Combustion Turbine, Condensing Turbine, Extracting Turbine, Fuel Cell, Microturbine, Other, Reciprocating Engine, Heat Recovery Generator, Stirling Engine |
| Eligible Fuel | Biogas, Biomass, Hydrogen, LFG, Municipal Solid Waste, Other |
| Eligible Project Size | All (MW) |
| Critical Information | The National Science Foundation's Environmental Sustainability Program encourages engineering research that promotes sustainable engineered systems, which aid human well-being and also sustain environmental systems. Eligible areas of research are as follows: - Development of water and wastewater treatment that will decrease material and energy use, - Advancing engineering methods to promote smart growth strategies, - Integrating economic development and protection of natural resources, - Regenerating ecological functions of degraded environments, - Understanding how large complex environmental systems behave, and - Developing effective principles for adaptive management of such systems. The average annual award size for the program is $100,000. |
| Start Date | 2/1/2008 |
| End Date | 9/15/2008 |
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| Additional Information | Applications can be submitted during the period from August 15, 2008 - September 15, 2008. Applicants can use grants.gov to prepare and submit proposals or may use the NSF Fastlane system. Collaborative proposals must be submitted via the NSF's Fastlane system. |
| Web Site | http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501027 |
| Primary Contact | Bruce Hamilton 4201 Wilson Boulevard Romm 565 S Arlington, VA 22203 U.S.A. Bruce Hamilton (bhamilto@nsf.gov) (703) 292-7066 |