The agreement provides funding to confederated salish and kootenai tribes

Specifically, the recipient will reduce the negative impacts of cercarial dermatitis (swimmer's itch) in vulnerable populations around flathead lake on the flathead indian reservation in western montana in an effort to increase people's ability to cool down in the water during warming temperatures. These goals work toward improving climate adaptation and resilience on the flathead indian reservation. To achieve this, cskt is partnering with flathead lakers, city of polson parks department, salish and kootenai college arts department, and university of montana to manage projects, develop partnerships, install rinse stations and outdoor message boards at six (6) public use beaches, conduct public education and outreach, install community-designed artworks at the rinse stations, and install an ADA compliant community dock at a tribally owned beach property. Activities:the activities to be performed by confederated salish and kootenai tribes include managing projects, developing partnerships, installing rinse stations and outdoor message boards at six (6) public use beaches, conducting public education and outreach, installing community-designed artworks at the rinse stations, and installing an ADA compliant community dock at a tribally owned beach property. Additional activities to be performed by flathead lakers, the sub-awardee, include e-coli testing and public notification of bacteria levels in flathead lake. Subrecipient:subaward is going to flathead lakers, a community-based non-profit organization, for $180,866. The flathead lakers' contribution to the project will include collecting monthly bacteria (e-coli) samples at all public beaches and associated dock on the reservation to monitor for potential health effects to the community. The lakers will also assist the tribes in using education and outreach to educate the community members of environmental issues that may affect community health while recreating. The lakers will also help the tribes work with other agencies that will be a part of the project such as the city of polson and lake county environmental health director to develop procedures to notify the public when swimmer's itch events happen in the future. IT is $48 per sample. The flathead lakers will sample a total of 16 swimming beaches around the lake for 10 weeks out of the year. So that would be a total of 160 samples, but they also do 1 duplicate and two blanks, so that would bring the total to 190 samples per year. The flathead lake biological station lab will be doing testing for 10 weeks during the summer months, between the 4TH of july and labor day, when the swimming beaches are most used. They will receive the results of the testing within a day or so of the sampling then post the updated results to swimguide.ORG. They share updates with their members periodically on social media and their news. If there is an area that does not pass, we share immediately. Per the grant, our duty is outreach and education. The funds would go towards a staff position (most likely part time) who would focus on swimmer's itch education, and community outreach, as well as marketing materials, and potentially other lakers staff time who work on the project. They have not put together a budget for the grant funds yet because they are waiting on the hiring of the program manager for the grant and US hiring a new ED. Those two would get together to discuss what the position with the lakers would look like and outline clear goals. The lakers will pay for the supplies out of the $180,866 budget. The water quality qapp has projects like the EJ grant covering the lakers sampling. Outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include hire and train staff to manage the project; develop qapp; coordinate annual meeting with ad hoc partner group (more if needed) or any other partners; add additional partners into annual meeti