Local Government Waste Tire Cleanup and Amnesty Event Grant Program

Notice of Funding Availability

The application period for this grant cycle closed February 10, 2006.

The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) allocated two million dollars ($2,000,000) for the Local Government Waste Tire Cleanup and Amnesty Event Grant Program in Fiscal Year 2005/2006. Public Resources Code Section 42889 authorizes the CIWMB to expend funds from the California Tire Recycling Management Fund (Tire Fund) to pay for the cost of cleanup, abatement, or other remedial actions related to the disposal of waste tires.

Grant Funding

One million dollars ($1,000,000) is available for waste tire cleanup projects and one million dollars ($1,000,000) is available for amnesty events. For waste tire cleanup projects eligible applicants may request up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per site/project or two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) per applicant. For amnesty events eligible applicants may request up to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per applicant or for joint applicants up to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per jurisdiction with a maximum of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) per joint applicant. The CIWMB is reserving twenty-five percent (25%) of the amnesty events’ funding allocation for funding grants to eligible rural entities as defined below. The CIWMB may at its sole discretion fund only certain portions of a grant proposal; sites that have had previous enforcement action against them may be denied. If fewer funds are requested for either program than are available, the remaining funds may automatically be allocated for use in the other program, as needed.

Applicant Eligibility

California jurisdictions including cities, counties, special districts, other political subdivisions and jurisdictions joined together by formal agreements, as well as California Indian Tribes are eligible. For the Amnesty Event Grant “rural entities” are defined as any county, and city, district or Native American Tribe within the county, which has a 2000 U.S. Census population of less than two-hundred thousand (200,000).

A resolution or formal inter-agency agreement such as a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) or Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) must be in place before the application deadline. Grants will not be awarded to two agencies within the same jurisdiction (example: City of Sacramento Public Works Department and City of Sacramento Health Department).

Project Eligiblility

Waste tire cleanup projects include the collection, removal, transportation, recycling, and disposal of waste tires from illegal tire piles and areas where illegal dumping has occurred along public right-of-ways. Sites can be located on private or public property. The waste tires must be transported to a facility that is approved by the CIWMB to accept waste tires. Projects not eligible for grant funding are sites where an operating business, including a farm or ranch, buys, sells, or otherwise trade tires, or that is actively stockpiling waste tires.

Amnesty events allow citizens to bring waste tires to convenient locations for proper management up to twice per month per location or can consist of a coupon program that allows citizens to bring in waste tires on specified days.

Application Submittal and Deadline

Applications were made available in December 2005. To request an application you can:

• Submit your request by e-mail to: tiregrants@ciwmb.ca.gov.
• Call the Waste Tire Grant Programs at (916) 341-6441.
• Download the application from this site when available.
  Application:  Adobe PDF (99 KB) | MS Word (123 KB)

Applicants must submit one original and two copies of the application including a description of the sites to be cleaned up or amnesty event programs that are proposed to be funded with grant monies. Applications must be postmarked or date stamped by CIWMB no later than Friday, February 10, 2006. Applications will be accepted at the Cal/EPA Headquarters Building located at 1001 I Street, Sacramento, CA until 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 10, 2006. Faxed or e-mailed applications will not be accepted. Late applications will be returned and will not be considered for grant funding for this Fiscal Year.

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Last updated: December 02, 2007