Guidance for Creating a Community Benefits Plan for Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs

This document is intended to provide supplemental information to assist applicants developing a Community Benefits Plan (CBP) for the Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs. As shown in the graphic to the right, Community Benefits Plans are based on a set of four core interdependent policy priorities: engaging communities and labor; investing in America's workforce; advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; and implementing Justice40. These key principles, when incorporated comprehensively into project proposals and executed upon, will help ensure broadly shared prosperity in the clean energy transition. CBP FOA requirements are intentionally flexible to generate the best approaches from applicants and their partners that are responsive to the communities, workers, and groups impacted by their projects. In sections where there is overlap, applicants should point reviewers to more comprehensive efforts addressed elsewhere. This lets reviewers know that applicants are thinking about all these pieces holistically.