[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Director Owens Announces Availability of Recycling Grants

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ADEQ Director Owens Announces Availability of Recycling Grants

PHOENIX (January 16, 2007) - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
(ADEQ) Director Steve Owens announced today that ADEQ is seeking grant
applications to enhance recycling efforts from private enterprises,
political subdivisions, tribal governments and nonprofit organizations
that serve Arizona communities.

"This grant program helps communities take action at the local level to
protect Arizona's environment by developing and promoting recycling,"
Owens said. "We are also encouraging collaborative and community
partnerships to promote recycling in Arizona."

ADEQ provides funding for recycling projects statewide in three major
categories:

*	Waste Reduction Assistance (WRA), which funds projects that
significantly reduce the solid-waste stream by purchasing recycling
equipment and developing the recycling infrastructure. 

*	Waste Reduction Initiative Through Education (WRITE), which
funds education projects that increase the awareness and use of
recycling opportunities and educate the public of the need to reduce,
reuse and recycle. 

*	Recycling Research & Development (RR&D), which funds feasibility
studies, solid waste audits and technology development for source
reduction, recycling, composting and other environmentally responsible
techniques. 

More information plus grant application forms are available as part of
ADEQ's Recycling Program Grants Manual, which is available for download
from our Web site:
www.azdeq.gov/environ/waste/solid/download/rfgamanual.pdf.

In addition, ADEQ is offering three workshops to help craft successful
grant applications:

*	Monday, February 5, 10:30 a.m., ADEQ Northern Regional Office,
1801 W. Route 66, Suite 117, Flagstaff

*	Wednesday, February 7, 10:30 a.m., ADEQ Southern Regional
Office, 400 W. Congress Rd., Room 222, Tucson

*	Friday, February 9, 1:30 p.m., ADEQ, 1110 W. Washington St.,
Room 250, Phoenix

The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2007 at 3 p.m.

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