{"id":920048,"date":"2020-09-03T12:09:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T17:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=920048"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:38:33","slug":"etcog-now-accepting-applications-for-solid-waste-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=920048","title":{"rendered":"ETCOG now accepting applications for solid waste grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-822106\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/10\/ETCOG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"101\" \/>KILGORE &#8212; ETCOG\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Solid Waste program is now accepting applications for its annual Municipal Solid Waste grant funds. On Thursday, ETCOG&#8217;s Lindsay Vanderbilt told KTBB, &#8220;Those eligible include cities, counties, school districts, special districts like a water authority, maybe a river authority. Applicant need to be in the 14 county region in one of those types of entities.&#8221; Approximately $151,223 is estimated to be allocated by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to regional solid waste minimization efforts in East Texas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt continued, &#8220;Typically in the community we see ISD&#8217;s, and cities applying to host local clean-up projects at their school or in their community. We will see a lot of recycling projects. It will fund litter abatement officers in the area, that may work for a city or in a county.&#8221; Local governments and special districts may apply for funds by submitting an application to ETCOG by September 30, 2020, by 4:00 PM. Applicants must be in the ETCOG 14-county service area, which includes Anderson, Camp, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Marion, Panola, Rains, Rusk, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, and Wood counties.<\/p>\n<p>The Request for Applications (RFA) and FY 2021 application forms are available online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etcog.org\/solid-waste-grants\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.etcog.org\/solid-waste-grants<\/a>. You may also request the documents by contacting Lisa Smith at (903) 218-6467 or by email at <a href=\"mailto:lisa.smith@etcog.org\">lisa.smith@etcog.org<\/a>. The deadline for application submittal is Wednesday, September 30, 2020, by 4:00 PM (CST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8212; ETCOG\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Solid Waste program is now accepting applications for its annual Municipal Solid Waste grant funds. On Thursday, ETCOG&#8217;s Lindsay Vanderbilt told KTBB, &#8220;Those eligible include cities, counties, school districts, special districts like a water authority, maybe a river authority. Applicant need to be in the 14 county region in one of those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=920048\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ETCOG now accepting applications for solid waste grants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":822106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 02:42:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920278,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920048\/revisions\/920278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/822106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}