This $3,000,055 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program will fund the Utah Department of Environmental Quality's (UDEQ) efforts to expand and enhance their air monitoring activities. Key deliverables include purchasing, installing, and operating five new multi-pollutant air monitoring stations, supporting...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Wildfire Smoke Preparedness in Community Buildings Grant Program awarded $854,609 to the State of Utah Department of Environmental Quality (UDEQ) to enhance community resilience against wildfire smoke hazards. The key activities under this 3-year Project Grant include: Deploying low-cost PM2.5 and CO2 sensors at public schools to monitor indoor and outdoor air quality Developing air quality systems that integrate data with wildfire smoke forecasts...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" program (CFDA 66.034) to the County of Salt Lake, UT Housing and Community Development Division. The grant funding will be used to expand an existing demonstration project to install 8 additional air quality monitors on electric buses operated by the Utah Transit Authority. This...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $6,530,531 Project Grant under the CFDA Program 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act to the University of Utah. This 5-year grant (10/1/2024 - 9/30/2029) will fund capacity building, training, education, and research and demonstration activities designed to address indoor air quality (IAQ) issues and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at K-12...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 awarded $265,000 to the Utah Department of Environmental Quality under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act federal grant program (CFDA 66.034) for the period of August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2023. The purpose of this Project Grant funding is to advance enhanced monitoring of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and other national ambient air quality standards...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $299,979 project grant to the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (UDEQ) under the Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program (CFDA 66.608). The funding will enable UDEQ to enhance its IT and data management capabilities to facilitate electronic collection, reporting, exchange, sharing, and integration of environmental data in the Uinta Basin region. Key deliverables include: 1) Developing an offline mobile inspection...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 awarded a $354,063 Project Grant to the State of Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) on July 15, 2023 under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" (CFDA 66.034) program. The purpose of this grant is to support the ongoing needs of Utah's air monitoring program through the purchase of 10 new PM2.5 air monitors to replace old equipment...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 awarded a $499,208 Project Grant under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" (CFDA 66.034) program to the State of Utah Department of Environmental Quality. The grant funding will be used by the Utah Division of Air Quality to conduct enhanced volatile organic compound (VOC) monitoring in underserved communities along the Northern Wasatch...
This $74,744,454 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CFDA 66.046) program, provides funding to the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (UDEQ) to implement a comprehensive set of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction programs, policies, and measures identified in Utah's Priority Climate Action Plan. Key activities include: creation of electric vehicle (EV) purchase incentive programs for light-duty,...
This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) Program (CFDA 66.312) will fund the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality (NDDEQ) and its partners to implement a campaign to reduce radon's impacts in low-income homes in three pilot regions of North Dakota. The key activities include distributing 600 radon test kits, creating new radon awareness materials in plain language...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) Program (CFDA 66.312) to the State of Utah Department of Environmental Quality (UDEQ) to address air pollution inequities in underserved urban, rural and tribal communities in Utah. The key activities include:
Radon testing, remediation and mitigation in 300-500 homes and schools to reduce lung cancer risk, especially among vulnerable school children. This work will be led by the Utah Radon Coalition (URC) and the University of Utah.
Enhanced PM2.5, PM10 and ozone monitoring using low-cost sensors, with data analysis and community outreach conducted by the University of Utah and Snow College.
The project follows a community-engaged approach and leverages partnerships with local organizations like the Utah Clean Air Partnership (Ucair) to facilitate community meetings, develop educational modules, and establish a community advisory board. The goal is to strengthen relationships between impacted communities and regulatory agencies, leading to increased trust, collaboration and the development of effective mitigation strategies.