Office of Land and Emergency Management

The Environmental Protection Agency Office of Land and Emergency Management - Funding Office is a sub-agency within EPA that administers federal contracts and grants for land remediation, waste management, emergency response coordination, and related environmental compliance and infrastructure work.

The Office has awarded 3,066 federal contracts totaling $2.93 billion in combined potential value since 1996, with $2.29 billion obligated to date. Recent contract activity shows 98 awards in 2022, 120 in 2023, 111 in 2024, 82 in 2025, and 49 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent award closed on 2026-09-30. Competitive concentration is moderately concentrated: the top five primes by award count hold 41 percent of recent awards over the last five years, led by Weston-Techlaw JV LLC with 72 awards totaling $52.6 million in potential value, followed by General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. with 36 awards and $86.5 million in potential value, and Environmental Management Support, Inc. with 33 awards and $62.4 million. By combined potential value alone, concentration drops to 10 percent of recent contract value among the top five, indicating a long tail of smaller awards distributed across 671 distinct primes. The Office has awarded 83 percent of contracts without a set-aside designation, 6 percent to total small-business concerns, 4 percent to partial small-business primes, 2 percent to competitive 8(a) firms, 1 percent to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and minimal awards under sole-source 8(a), HUBZone, and HUBZone sole-source categories.

The Office has also awarded 524 federal grants totaling $251.4 million in combined federal dollars obligated since 1994. Recent grant activity shows 3 awards in 2021, 4 in 2022, 9 in 2023, 46 in 2024, and 4 in 2025; no grant awards have closed since 2025-09-01. Grant recipient concentration is fragmented: the top five recipients by award count hold 21 percent of recent awards over the last five years, with the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials, Inc. leading by count at 5 awards and $7.4 million in federal dollars. By federal dollars obligated, concentration rises to 29 percent among the top five, led by Kansas State University at $27 million across 2 awards and World Wildlife Fund, Inc. at $25.8 million across 2 awards. The Office structures grants predominantly as Project Grants (89 percent of awards) with a smaller share of Cooperative Agreements (10 percent) and one Formula Grant.