This agreement provides funding to support the southwest environmental finance center at the university of new mexico located in albuquerque, new mexico

The southwest environmental finance center provide finance-related training, education, and analytical studies to help regulated parties develop solutions to the difficult 'how-to-pay' issues associated with meeting environmental standards. The southwest environmental finance center educate state, tribal, and local governments and businesses on lowering environmental costs, increasing environmental investments, improving financial capacity, identifying appropriate revenue generating mechanisms, and evaluating environmental financing options. To address these objectives the southwest environmental finance center plans a series of activities including consultation with environmental protection agency region 6 and states; training; technical assistance; creating tools and resources; addressing climate change/resilience/emergency situations; building a sustainable workforce; conducting studies and applied research; technical information sharing/technical information transfer; community capacity building; tribal capacity building; piloting approaches to address environmental issues; accessing funding; program support; and support for and coordination with the environmental finance center network.activities:the activities include the following. See attached file for details. ACTIVITY1; consultation with environmental protection agency region 6 and states activity 2: training (virtual and in-person) activity 3: technical assistance activity 4: tools and resources activity 5: addressing climate change/resilience/emergency situations activity 6: building a sustainable workforce through the environmental protection agency four pillars strategic workforce planning. Activity 7: studies and applied research activity 8: technical information sharing/technical information transfer activity 9: community capacity building activity 10: tribal capacity building activity 11: piloting approaches to addressing environmental issues activity 12: accessing funding activity 13: program support activity 14: support for and coordination with environmental finance center network subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include the following; 1. Analysis of attendance records for every training, workshop, educational session 2. Report the count of views: websites, switchboards, recorded webinars; resource downloads, tool accesses 3. Provide a documented count of resources and tools developed 4. Development of a smart sheet project management tool used to document the status and nature of work in all communities being assisted 5. Provide a report on outcomes of assistance assessed through discussions w/systems during and following assistance - count of phone calls and other interactions with states - count of types of technical assistance provided 6. Documented and summarize annual review of benefits from network coordination - quarterly calls with environmental protection agency - quarterly progress reports and final reports 7. A documented report summarizing a safe drinking water information system data check comparison of overall regulatory compliance at the beginning and end of systems assisted. The expected outcomes include the following; 1. Clear communication of the needs of environmental protection agency region 6 and states under this agreement 2. Evaluation of increased technical/managerial/finance capacity enabling communities to improve their sustainability 3. Increased number of communities complying with regulations 4. Increased access to resources and tools 5. Increased community capacity 6. Piloted an on-demand asynchronous training program. 7. Southwest environmenta