This agreement provides funding from the infrastructure investment and jobs act (IIJA) to spirit lake tribe

This $1,500,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920) provides funding to the Spirit Lake Tribe in North Dakota. The purpose of this 3-year award is to enhance the tribe's solid and hazardous waste collection system through the purchase of new equipment, expand recycling and disposal procedures, and identify additional recycling options. Key activities include developing outreach materials to educate stakeholders, purchasing and setting up equipment to improve trash collection, training new transfer station staff, and exploring expanded recycling opportunities. The anticipated outcomes include infrastructure investments, increased materials collection and recycling, new job creation, and greenhouse gas emissions reductions. This award aims to improve post-consumer materials management and reduce waste generation within the Spirit Lake Reservation community.

EPA's solid waste infrastructure for recycling (swifr) grants for tribes and intertribal consortia will fund projects that focus on encouraging environmentally sound post-consumer materials management, fund projects that will result in a decrease in the generation of municipal solid waste and/or an increase in the diversion of municipal solid waste from landfills and incineration; and/or fund projects that provide or expand access to source reduction, reuse, recycling, backhaul, anaerobic digestion, and composting for tribes and tribal members of intertribal consortia. The purpose of this award is to enhance the efforts to meet the swifr grants elements. Specifically, the recipient will enhance the reservation's solid and hazardous waste collection system through purchase of much needed new and improved equipment, to expand recycling and disposal procedures that result in reduced emission, contamination and impacts to human health, the environment and climate changes. Activities:the activities to be performed are to 1) develop and distribute outreach materials to educate the stakeholder and public of solid waste improvements and changes, 2) purchase and setup equipment in order to improve trash collection, 3) develop job descriptions and identify training for new transfer station employee, and 4) identify and explore additional recycling options, which will start in the first year and continue through the three-year grant period. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables are: develop and distribute outreach materials to educate the stakeholder and public of solid waste improvements and changes; purchase and setup equipment in order to improve trash collection; develop job descriptions and identify training for new transfer station employee; and identify and explore additional recycling options, which will start in the first year and continue through the three-year grant period. The expected outcomes include: number of infrastructure investments/enhancements made spanning the spectrum of collection through end market development; tons of MSW/candd collected, recycled, or managed via other management pathways in the community; tons of MSW/candd generated per material type and source in the community in which the project serves (e.g., plastic and food waste); number of temporary or permanent jobs created (including parttime); tons of MSW/candd collected, recycled, or composted, or managed via other management pathways in the community in which the project serves; tons of MSW/candd generated per material type and source in the community in which the project serves (e.g., plastic and food waste); GHG reduced (in MTCO2E) from collection, recycling, composting or management via other management pathways; number of temporary or permanent jobs created. The intended beneficiaries include the residents of the spirit lake nation in north dakota.