This agreement provides funding from the infrastructure investment and jobs act (IIJA) to the modoc nation

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920), will fund the Modoc Nation's project to enhance their municipal solid waste management and recycling infrastructure. The $1,245,786 award will enable the Modoc Nation to acquire an existing building and make upgrades to establish a new tribal recycling facility. The project will also include the purchase of new equipment such as a refuse truck, baler, forklift, and skid steer, as well as the hiring of two new employees to staff the facility. The anticipated outcomes include increasing recycling collection and improving materials management infrastructure to serve the Modoc Nation and surrounding tribal communities in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri.

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 establish, increase, or expand materials management infrastructure through the acquisition of an existing building and several upgrades and improvements to this building to become their new recycling facility. They will also purchase new equipment such as an 11-yard rear load refuse truck, a horizontal baler with conveyor feed, a forklift, and a skid steer. They will also hire two new employees to work in their new recycling facility. Activities:the activities to be performed are the acquisition of an existing building and several upgrades and improvements to this building to become their new tribal recycling facility. The purchase of new equipment to include an 11-yard rear load refuse truck, a horizontal baler with conveyor feed, a forklift, and a skid steer. Hiring two new employees to work in their new recycling facility. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include the acquisition of an existing building and several upgrades and improvements to this building to become their new tribal recycling facility. This improvement to the tribal recycling facility will help provide more recycling service to the underserved communities throughout ottawa county, oklahoma. The purchase of new equipment to includ an 11-yard rear load refuse truck, a horizontal baler with conveyor feed, a forklift, and a skid steer. Hiring two new permanent employees to work in their new recycling facility. 200 tons of MSW/candd collected, recycled, composted, or managed via other management pathways in the community in which the project serves. 5 other neighboring tribal recycling programs served as a result of increasing, expanding, and/or optimizing collection. The expected outcomes include increase recycling collection and improve materials management infrastructure. The intended beneficiaries include fellow tribal members and members of the general public in ottawa, and craig counties in oklahoma, cherokee county in kansas, and mcdonald and newton counties in missouri, and also other local tribal recycling programs.