The Exchange Network (EN) was launched in 2002 as an inter-governmental, collaborative partnership of EPA, states, territories, and tribes to foster better environmental management and decision-making through increased access to timely, high quality environmental information.

The EPA Exchange Network Grant Program is soliciting project applications to support the EN to:

• Facilitate sharing of environmental data, especially through shared and reusable services.
• Reduce burden and avoid costs for co-regulators and the regulated community.
• Streamline data collection and exchanges to improve its timeliness for decision making.
• Increase the quality and access to environmental data through discovery, publishing, outbound and analytical services so it is more useful to environmental managers.
• Increase data and IT management capabilities needed to fully participate in the EN.

This EN Grant Program Solicitation Notice requests states, tribes, inter-tribal consortia, and territories submit applications with goals supporting one or more of the three funding areas:

• Funding Area 1: Increased Data Access and Innovative Business Processes,
• Funding Area 2: Eliminate paper submittals and expand e-reporting, and
• Funding Area 3: Augment the information management capacity of EN partners.