This agreement provides funding from the infrastructure investment and jobs act (IIJA) to the otoe-missouria tribe of indians

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920) provides $1,500,000 in funding to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians. The purpose of this award is to enhance the tribe's efforts to meet the SWIFR program's objectives of encouraging environmentally sound post-consumer materials management, reducing municipal solid waste generation, and increasing waste diversion from landfills and incineration.

Specifically, the tribe will be working with a contractor to design and build a new recycling center, purchase new equipment including a truck, trailer, recycling bins, baler, containers, and a forklift, hire a full-time technician, implement data tracking, and prepare educational outreach activities. The anticipated outcomes include expanded recycling availability, increased recycling awareness, and a reduction in solid waste contamination for the Otoe-Missouria Tribe and surrounding tribal communities.

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 be working with a contractor to design and build a new recycling center, purchase new equipment, hire a technician, implement data tracking, and prepare educational activities for outreach purposes.activities:the activities to be performed are working with a contractor to design and build a new recycling center, purchase new equipment, hire a technician, implement data tracking, and prepare educational activities for outreach purposes.subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include building a new recycling center building, purchasing a new truck, trailer, recycling bins, baler, large oudoor recycling containers, a pallet jack with scales, utility tractor and a forklift, hiring a full time employee, track and record recycling data, and write a solid waste plan. The expected outcomes include expanded recycling availability, increased recycling awareness, and a reduction in solid waste contamination. . The intended beneficiaries include members of the otoe-missouria tribe and surrounding tribes such as the ponca tribe of oklahoma, tonkawa tribe of oklahoma, KAW nation of oklahoma, iowa tribe of oklahoma, and pawnee nation.