Pennsylvania Code
Pennsylvania Code & Bulletin
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

• No statutes or acts will be found at this website.

The Pennsylvania Bulletin website includes the following: Rulemakings by State agencies; Proposed Rulemakings by State agencies; State agency notices; the Governor’s Proclamations and Executive Orders; Actions by the General Assembly; and Statewide and local court rules.

PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 98-972

NOTICES

Environmental Education Grants Applications

[28 Pa.B. 2865]

   The Department of Environmental Protection (Department) announces that applications for the 1999 Environmental Education Grants Program under the Environmental Education Act (35 P. S. §§ 7521--7523) (act) are available.

   The act created an Environmental Education Fund (Fund) from the annual deposit of 5% of the pollution fines and penalties collected by the Department. The Fund is used to support new environmental education programs in Department of Conservation and Natural Resources' Bureau of State Parks; provide grants to schools, conservation organizations, educational organizations and county conservation districts. Some administrative costs associated with administering the grants program are also covered by this Fund.

   The purpose of this grants program is to stimulate environmental education in this Commonwealth through direct instruction, or through teacher training. Grants can be used to develop new programs, or to significantly improve the quality of existing programs. Projects may be large, comprehensive endeavors affecting many teachers, students, or both, or they may be small, focused efforts to help an individual teacher or school implement an environmental education program.

   This is a reimbursement program with grant awards to $10,000. Grantees must provide a minimum of 25% in matching funds from non-State sources. Eligible applicants are as follows:

   * Public and private schools for youth environmental education (kindergarten through secondary levels)

   * Nonprofit conservation and education organizations and institutions, including public and private schools, for teacher training and pre-service training in environmental education

   * County conservation districts for youth education, teacher training, or community education

   Other interested parties may form partnerships or consortiums with an eligible applicant.

   A one page pre-application letter, a new requirement, must be postmarked between July 1, 1998, and September 21, 1998. Upon receiving approval notification, final applications must be posted by November 12, 1998. Applications posted after that date will not be considered. Applications must be on the Department provided forms. Grant awards will be announced during Earth Week, 1999. Awarded projects may not begin until July 1, 1999, or after.

   Inquiries concerning this notice or requests for grants manuals should be directed to the Department of Environmental Protection, Environmental Education GrantsProgram, P. O. Box 8454, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8454, (717) 772-1828; Heidi Haertsch (717) 705-3767 or E-mail Haertsch.Heidi@a1.dep.state.pa.us.

   For additional information on environmental education visit the DEP website at: http://www.dep.state.pa.us (choose school zone).

JAMES M. SEIF,   
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 98-972. Filed for public inspection June 19, 1998, 9:00 a.m.]


No part of the information on this site may be reproduced for profit or sold for profit.

This material has been drawn directly from the official Pennsylvania Bulletin full text database. Due to the limitations of HTML or differences in display capabilities of different browsers, this version may differ slightly from the official printed version.