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Activities related to septic system inspection, maintenance, repair, replacement, or installation are ineligible under this RFA.
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Activities related to septic system inspection, maintenance, repair, replacement, or installation are ineligible under this RFA.
While we encourage applications from coalitions, unfortunately we are not able to facilitate these relationships. EPA will announce the winners of the competition so you would be able to reach out to those winners at that time for subaward or partnership opportunities.
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models. The MOVES model was designed specifically to model the emissions from vehicles and equipment designed to meet emission standards in the United States. There are considerable challenges to adapting the MOVES framework to other nations, primarily around the need for very…
The MOVES installer typically requires user interaction to make various selections. However, if the default installation options are acceptable for your needs, the installer can be run without user interaction on the command line using the /VERYSILENT flag. If this is a first time installation you will need to create…
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models. MOVES is designed to run on a single personal computer with a Windows 10 or 11 operating system. The recommended minimum hardware for a desktop or laptop computer running MOVES are: 64-bit CPU with 4 or more cores: Intel i7 or…
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Sampling past 2029 will not be covered under this assistance agreement.
Only materials submitted as part of the grant application submitted on Grants.gov will be considered. If supporters wish to send letters directly to EPA, they may email (GLRI-RFA@epa.gov). However, for them to be considered with the application, the applicant organization should be copied on those email messages with enough time…
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models. The most accurate national MOVES runs are done for every county and hour and then averaged together in the output, but, depending on your intended use of the results, it’s also possible to pre-aggregate the MOVES inputs to run the nation…
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models. We recommend not modifying the internal tables of the MOVES-Nonroad model to incorporate local data, as this can lead to unintended consequences. Instead, you can apply local activity and population data by: Executing a nonroad run in Inventory mode for the…
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models. This is just a warning message not an error message so there is nothing to fix. This is a internal timing issue when the MOVES worker tries to access a file and there is a lock on it. This lock could…
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models. There are two definitions used in MOVES for light duty trucks. The source use type light duty trucks (sourceTypeID values of 31 or 32) use the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) VM-1 definition of light duty vehicles used to report vehicle activity…
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models. Extended idling is a distinct emission process defined as the overnight idling of long-haul trucks with sleeper cabs at truck stops and other locations during federally required downtime. During such idling periods, these engines experience unusual loads (televisions, air conditioning, fans…
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models. MOVES does calculate default values for VMT for each calendar year for each county. Since these values are calculated, they are not found in any table in the default database. If you wish to obtain the default estimates, you will need…