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Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: National Clean Investment Fund

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

66.957

Sub-agency

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Program objective

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) amends the Clean Air Act to include Section 134 (42 USC § 7434), which authorizes the EPA to make competitive grants under the National Clean Investment Fund. The National Clean Investment Fund is currently funded by two separate appropriations to make competitive grants to eligible recipients: $11.97 billion from Section 134(a)(2) and $2 billion from Section 134(a)(3) (out of $8 billion provided in Section 134(a)(3)). The National Clean Investment Fund implements the statute’s use of funds for direct investments under Section 134(b)(1). Section 134(b)(1) directs recipients of funds for direct investments to (A) provide financial assistance to qualified projects at the national, regional, state, and local levels; (B) prioritize investment in qualified projects that would otherwise lack access to financing; and (C) retain, manage, recycle, and monetize all repayments and other revenue received from fees, interest, repaid loans, and any other financial assistance provided using the grant funds to ensure continued operability.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2024

    The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for this program was released on July 14, 2023. To view the projects awarded under this assistance listing, please visit the following website: https://www.epa.gov/greenhouse-gas-reduction-fund/national-clean-investment-fund.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

For General Assistance and Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities Grants, costs will be determined in accordance with 2 CFR 1500 (EPA Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards); 40 CFR Part 33 (Participation by Disadvantaged Business Enterprises in United States Environmental Protection Agency Programs).

  1. Clean Air Act, 134(a)(2) and 134 (a)(3) (42 US Code 7434).

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Environmental Quality

Program types

Eligible applicants

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Anyone/general public
  • Builder/Contractor/Developer
  • Consumer
  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Homeowner
  • Individual/Family
  • Local
  • Low Income
  • Major Metropolis (over 250,000)
  • Minority group
  • Moderate Income
  • Native American Organizations
  • Other Urban
  • Other private institution/organization
  • Other public institution/organization
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • Quasi-public nonprofit organization
  • Rural
  • Small Business Person
  • Small business
  • State
  • Suburban
  • U.S. Territories

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