August 2025 Updates

Welcome to the August edition of the Western Regional Collaborative newsletter. We are excited to bring you the latest updates and valuable resources to support your work in environmental protection and sustainability. 

Contents

• CCAPs Spotlight – Western Regional Progress Update  
• Upcoming CCAP Opportunities from the EPA
• Open Funding Opportunities
• Federal
• Tribal
• California



CCAPs Spotlight – Western Regional Progress Update

We’re excited to share that some Comprehensive Climate Action Plans (CCAPs) have been successfully completed across the Western U.S. and Tribal regions, marking major milestones in climate resilience and planning. 

California:

San Benito County has finalized its CCAP as part of a regional effort with Santa Clara County. This plan outlines local strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building climate resilience.

View San Benito County’s CCAP

Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, and Tribal CCAPs:

While specific CCAPs for other western states are still in progress, these states maintain public access to environmental and planning records. Tribal partners continue to engage through programs like the Tribal Access Program (TAP), which supports data sharing and climate-related planning.

 Tribal Access Program (TAP)

We’ll continue to spotlight completed CCAPs and share resources to support your climate planning efforts. If your region has completed a CCAP and you'd like to be featured, let us know!

Upcoming CCAP Opportunities from the EPA

Technical Helpdesk for CCAP Planning

Need help with your CCAP? The CPRG team is now offering a Technical Helpdesk to provide one-on-one support for planning grantees.

To request assistance:

1. Fill out the intake form here: Technical Helpdesk Request Form
2. A member of our helpdesk team will contact you within 24 hours to schedule a kick-off call.

This is a great opportunity to get tailored guidance on your planning process, tools, and strategies.

Open Funding Opportunities

Currently open funding opportunities are listed below. This list is updated monthly as new opportunities are added.

Due to changes at the Federal level, website pages and link access may change. Our apologies for any potential inconvenience.

FEDERAL

DOE’s Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas Funding Opportunity 

These grants will provide a total of $400 million to 20-50 projects with awards ranging from $2-$50 million per award. This opportunity is open to state, local, Tribal governments and other communities of less than 10,000 residents. This funding will be used to fund projects that improve cost-effectiveness of energy generation, transmission, or distribution systems; siting or upgrading transmission and distribution lines; reduce greenhouse gas emissions from energy generation in rural or remote areas; provide or modernize electric generation facilities; develop microgrids; or increase energy efficiency.

• Final applications are due August 28, 2025.

• For additional details, please visit DOE Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas program’s web page. 

DOE’s Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment (EIR) Loan Guarantees 

DOE’s EIR program will finance projects that retool, repower, repurpose, or replace energy infrastructure that has ceased operations or enable operating energy infrastructure to avoid, reduce, utilize or sequester air pollutants or greenhouse gas emissions. Examples include: Upgrading or uprating energy infrastructure so it can restart or operate more efficiently, at higher output, or with lower emissions; Replacing retired energy infrastructure with clean energy infrastructure; Building new facilities for clean energy purposes that utilize legacy energy infrastructure. Eligibility for this program is broad and includes project developers, clean tech manufacturers and service providers, regulated utilities, and independent power producers. Award amounts vary with $250 billion in loan guarantee authority available.

• The deadline to apply for this program is September 30, 2026.



• For full details, please visit DOE EIR Loan Guarantee's web page.

TRIBAL

Native American Preparedness Grant Program - CALIFORNIA

This grant includes Hazardous Waste and Emergency Response training. Grant amount up to $10,000 annually. Grant includes oil spill-related training, Participation in the CDFW-OSPR preparedness activities and serve as the Tribal Representative for the Geographic Response Plans and the United States Coast Guard Area Contingency Planning Committees; Attendance to tabletop and industry-led oil spill drills and exercises.

• Applications are continuous

• For details visit Office of Spill Prevention and Response's web page

CALIFORNIA

GFO-23-312r2 - Round 2 Community Energy Reliability and Resilience Investment (CERRI) Program 

This opportunity provides competitive grant funding for grid-hardening and resilience projects that: 

• Strengthen and modernize California’s power grid 
• Protect against wildfires, extreme weather, and other natural disasters 
• For more details, please visit GFO-23-312r2 - Round 2 Community Energy Reliability and Resilience Investment (CERRI) Program 

Submission deadline: August 29th, 2025