EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation

Program Description

The Environmental Protection Agency established its EPSCoR program in 1991 to improve and enhance nationally competitive environmental science and engineering research programs conducted by academic institutions within the EPSCoR states and Puerto Rico.

EPA EPSCoR was open to any state eligible for NSF EPSCoR and was part of the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program. EPSCoR funds were used to make additional awards within the STAR program to investigators from EPSCoR states that would not otherwise have been awarded.

From FY 2002 through FY 2005, EPA EPSCoR was funded at $2.5M per year. EPA EPSCoR received no funding in FY 2006, FY 2007, and FY 2008.

Award Components

Co-funding

EPSCoR States

27 states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands.