ABOUT CPRG

The Planning Process

CMRPC staff are leading the planning process and grant administration.
CMRPC staff plan to work closely with the sub-grantees:
- Montachusett Regional Planning Commission (MRPC)
- Northeastern Connecticut Council of Governments (NECCOG)
Sub-grant awards will be used to work with partners to:
- Conduct community engagement in non-CMRPC areas.
- Provide GHG emissions analysis and modeling for the full grant area.
Establish a Committee to help oversee the overall planning process.
CMRPC staff will be providing project updates to all communities through social media/project website.
CMRPC will work with sub-contractor, Weston & Sampson, to inform the planning process through analysis and modeling and develop an interactive emissions toolkit.

Plan aims to develop short-term, high-priority, and implementation-ready measures to reduce GHG pollution and provide an analysis of GHG emissions reductions that would be acheived through implementation.
The plan must include:
- GHG inventory
- Quantified GHG reduction measures
- Low-income and disadvantaged communities (LIDAC) benefits analysis
- Review of authority to implement
Submitted March 2024.

Plan aims to develop near and long-term GHG emissions reduction goals and to provide strategies to identify measures to achieve these goals.
Plan must include:
- GHG inventory
- GHG emissions projections
- GHG reductions targets
- Quantified GHG reduction measures
- Benefit analysis for geographic scope and population of planning areas
- LIDAC benefits analysis
- Review of authority to implement
- Plan to leverage other federal funding and a workforce planning analysis
Due December 1, 2025.

Emission Reductions

Reductions will be targeted in the listed sectors