The primary objective of the EPA's ancsa cooperative agreement grants program is to provide financial support to assist the alaska tribal entities with addressing contamination on lands conveyed…

The primary objective of the EPA's ancsa cooperative agreement grants program is to provide financial support to assist the alaska tribal entities with addressing contamination on lands conveyed pursuant to the alaska native claims settlement act (ancsa) (43 U.S.C. 1601 ET SEQ.). The funds are available to eligible tribal applicant to: (1) to characterize, assess, and conduct planning and community involvement activities related to these lands; and (2) to carry out cleanup activities at ancsa contaminated sites. The alaska native region corporation (ANC) of [the aleut corporation (aleut)] will assemble a project management team, select, and contract a qualified environmental professional (QEP), ensuring compliance with all environmental regulatory and for the safety of field operations to adequately address associated hazardous material (hazmat), safety, and human health requirements. The goal, and final outcome, is to have the public works building (PWB) T1470 landfill covered with monofil site covering per adec required per adec. Activities:(1) plan and execute an assessment of the contaminations resulting in a site characterization plan providing, specific nature, volume, and locations of environmental contamination and/or (2) per adec approved site characterization plan and execute the cleanup of the site. The grant recipient aleut will prepare and publish notices, prepare meeting materials and presentations, and prepare and distribute other public information materials. Aleut will work with the contractor(s) to create a quality assurance project plan (qapp), environmental documents supporting the national environmental protection act (nepa) compliance and associated cross cutters consultations, health, and safety plans (hasps) and final remediation (assessment/cleanup) plans. To begin cleanup activities of the contaminants, aleut will create request for proposals (rfps) for contractor procurement, conduct cleanup of the public works building (PWB) T1470 by overlaying the site with an adec approved monofil covering. Ensure the covered hazardous materials and associated waste products are disposed of in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Schedule performance reports including a final report are to be prepared by aleut and provided to the EPA. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:grant funding will allow aluet to select a qualitied remediation contractor to complete the remediation and cleanup of the contamination and to address associated hazardous material (hazmat), safety, and human health requirements; allowing the safety reuse of the property owned by the aleut corporation, federally recognized tribal entity. The direct beneficiaries of this program include the grantee, a native tribe, as well as the remote community of adak's residents through the cleanup and redevelopment of this site. Direct beneficiaries of this grant are members of the tribe, local community residents and (shareholders in the ANC).