Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) requests proposals from eligible applicants to fund a community air monitoring pilot grant program. Eligible applicants include community non-profits and partnering organizations who will develop a network of neighborhood air monitoring in the 7-county metro region (Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington). Partnerships with other entities to achieve all aspects of the project is expected. The project(s) are prioritized to be in environmental justice communities, have extensive community engagement, and will use a variety of sensors to gather data on a variety of pollutants. This grant is designed to monitor air quality on a neighborhood scale (deployment of fixed continuous monitoring sensors as dense as is reasonably possible and spatiotemporal (mobile) sensors are deployed such that they cover each block within the network) in communities disproportionately impacted by air pollution, to engage those communities in outreach and cooperation, and to provide data to the MPCA that can help with decision making.
