The Department
of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) has approved 8 grant awards
for the third cycle of the Community Composting for Green Spaces Grant Program. The FY 2021–22 Budget, as amended by SB 170 (Chapter 240, Statutes
of 2021), allocates $70,000,000 to CalRecycle from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Fund (appropriation 3970-101- 3228) with five percent ($3,500,000) available
for administrative costs, as authorized in the Budget and shall be used to
provide grants for the purposes of paragraphs (1), (2), or (5) of subdivision
(b) of Section 42999 of the Public Resources Code. In May 2023 CalRecycle
awarded $4,240,000 for community composting projects to create, improve, or
expand community composting within geographic regions in California in Cycle 2.
In December 2023 CalRecycle awarded $61,750,000 as part of the Organics Grant
Program, to support expansion of the waste management infrastructure,
particularly for new or expanded organics infrastructure such as composting and
digestion facilities. The remaining $510,000 is now recommended for award as
part of Cycle 3 of the Program.
The Request for Approval has been posted to our Public Notice
webpage at Public Notice:
Awards for the Community Composting for Green Spaces Grant Program (Greenhouse
Gas Reduction Fund, Fiscal Year 2021-22) at
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov/PublicNotices/Details/5363. The awards will be presented at the March 19,
2023 CalRecycle Public Meeting. Please visit Public Meeting
Notice: (March 2024) Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery
(CalRecycle) Monthly Public Meeting at
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov/PublicNotices/Details/5360.
Thank you for your interest in this program. For more information go to the Community Composting Grant Program. To Unsubscribe from the Community Composting listserv, please go to https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov/Listservs/Unsubscribe/160.
