ABOUT CPRG

THE PLANNING PROCESS

CMRPC staff are leading the planning process and grant administration.
CMRPC staff plan to work closely with the other Regional Planning Agency's and Council of Government's (COG) in Worcester County and Windham County.
Sub-grant awards will be used to work with partners to:
- Conduct community engagement in non-CMRPC areas.
- Provide GHG emissions analysis and modelling for the full grant area.
Community Committees
- To establish a Steering Committee to oversee the planning process and plan/report developments.
- To establish a Technical Advisory Committee to provide expert/professional feedback on plan/report components.
CMRPC staff will be providing project updates to all communities through social media/project website.
CMRPC will hire a contractor to 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 Summer 2025.

Emission Reductions

Reductions will be targeted in the listed sectors