CDPHE’s Division of Environmental Health and Sustainability is seeking stakeholder feedback on a legislative proposal that aims to streamline waste diversion grant funding. The proposal would merge the Front Range Waste Diversion enterprise and the Recycling Resources Economic Opportunity grant program into the existing enterprise and expand it to have a statewide focus. This change would allow all grant recipients to benefit from the flexible and long-term funding provided by an enterprise and would enable the regional partnerships afforded by a statewide program like RREO.

Merging the grant programs creates administrative efficiencies for the grantmaking. The proposal removes the CPI for FRWD user fees, and eliminates the RREO user fee for businesses in counties in the Front Range region that already pay a FRWD user fee. The proposal also updates the 1992 pollution prevention statute to codify the department’s voluntary green business program, the Colorado Green Business Network.

More details of our proposal can be found in this fact sheet.

The department is hosting a virtual meeting with stakeholders on October 27, 2023, at 10:00am. You can register for this meeting below.