TCS Databases

A Taxpayers for Common Sense Project

Category: IRA

  • Funding to Address Air Pollution: Fenceline Air Monitoring

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    Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Air   Description: To deploy, integrate, support, and maintain fence line air monitoring, screening air monitoring, national air toxics trend stations, and other air toxics and community monitoring. Bill Section: 60105(a) New or Existing: Existing Potential Cost:      $117,500,000 Timeline:      FY22-31    

  • Funding to Address Air Pollution: Methane Monitoring

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    Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Air   Description: For grants and other activities for monitoring emissions of methane. Bill Section: 60105(e) New or Existing: Existing Potential Cost:      $20,000,000 Timeline:      FY22-31   Other TCS Resources: Taxpayer and Climate Costs of Methane Emissions Fact Sheet  

  • Funding to Address Air Pollution: Mobile Source Grants

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    Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Air   Description: To provide grants to States to adopt and implement California’s greenhouse gas and zero-emission standards for on-road mobile sources. Bill Section: 60105(g) US Code: 42 USC 7507 New or Existing: New Potential Cost:      $5,000,000 Timeline:      FY22-31    

  • Funding to Address Air Pollution: Multipollutant Monitoring

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    Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Air   Description: For grants and other activities to expand the national ambient air quality monitoring network with new multipollutant monitoring stations; and to replace, repair, operate, and maintain existing monitors. Bill Section: 60105(b) New or Existing: Existing Potential Cost:      $50,000,000 Timeline:      FY22-31    

  • Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP): Incentives for Methane Mitigation and Monitoring

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    Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Air   Description: For grants, rebates, contracts, loans, and other activities to reduce methane emissions from petroleum and natural gas systems, including deploying new technology, plugging wells, and improving community climate resiliency. Funding may also be used for methane emissions monitoring and assisting petroleum and natural gas facilities…

  • Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP): Incentives for Methane Mitigation from Conventional Wells

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    Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Air   Description: For grants, rebates, contracts, loans, and other activities to reduce methane emissions from at marginal conventional wells, including deploying new technology, plugging wells, and improving community climate resiliency. Marginal wells are defined as onshore conventional wells producing less than or equal to 15 barrels of…

  • Refuge System Resiliency

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    Agency: Fish and Wildlife Service   Description: Direct expenditures, grants, contracts and cooperative agreements for rebuilding and restoring units of the National Wildlife Refuge System and State wildlife management areas by addressing invasive species, habitat resiliency and capacity, infrastructure to withstand weather events, and reducing damage from weather events. Bill Section: 60302 New or Existing:…

  • Assistance for Federal Buildings

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    Agency: General Services Administration   Description: For measures necessary to convert facilities of the Administrator of General Services to high-performance green buildings, as part of the Federal Buildings Fund. Bill Section: 60502 New or Existing: Existing Potential Cost:      $250,000,000 Timeline:      FY22-31   TCS Notes: The term “high-performance green building” means a high-performance building…

  • General Service Administration Emerging Technologies

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    Agency: General Services Administration   Description: To support emerging and sustainable technologies and related sustainability and environmental programs, as part of the Federal Buildings Fund. Bill Section: 60504 New or Existing: Existing Potential Cost:      $975,000,000 Timeline:      FY22-26    

  • Use of Low-Carbon Materials

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    Agency: General Services Administration   Description: “To acquire and install materials and products for use in the construction or alteration of buildings under the jurisdiction, custody, and control of GSA that have substantially lower levels of embodied greenhouse gas emissions…,” as determined by EPA. Bill Section: 60503 US Code: 40 USC 592 New or Existing:…