This agreement provides funding to maryland to conduct activities that are not assignable to specific sites but will support the recipient's response program under the comprehensive environmental…

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 awarded a Cooperative Agreement totaling $177,822 to the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), Office of Fiscal Services, effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027, under the Superfund State and Indian Tribe Core Program Cooperative Agreements (CFDA 66.809). This award funds non-site-specific administrative and programmatic activities supporting Maryland's implementation of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). MDE will provide core services including staff supervision and coordination, records management and database administration, cost recovery paperwork processing for state Superfund sites, records retention program oversight, annual development of the Superfund Comprehensive Accomplishment Plan, quality assurance project plan updates, cooperative agreement and amendment reviews, ongoing EPA communication and coordination, legal analysis of environmental covenants, and administrative support services such as purchase order processing and staff training.

Under this agreement, MDE will deliver semi-annual activity and financial status reports documenting accomplishments and core program expenses, participate in required meetings with EPA, potentially responsible parties, and technical or legal staff, and provide comprehensive documentation of departmental activities performed in accordance with the cooperative agreement work plan. No sub-awards are included in this assistance agreement. The intended beneficiaries are Maryland residents, as these core program functions support the state's broader Superfund response and environmental protection efforts.

This agreement provides funding to maryland to conduct activities that are not assignable to specific sites but will support the recipient's response program under the comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act.activities:non-site-specific activities to be performed include the following: supervising staff engaged in coordinating non-site-specific activities, such as record retention and database management; processing cost recovery paperwork for state superfund sites; overseeing the records management program to ensure proper retention and disposition of records in compliance with state and environmental protection agency (EPA) requirements; developing and submitting the superfund comprehensive accomplishment plan requirements annually; reviewing and updating the maryland department of the environment quality assurance project plan, as needed, to ensure IT remains current; reviewing all cooperative agreements and their amendments; maintaining ongoing communication with EPA regional personnel; providing legal analysis on the structure and legal sufficiency of environmental covenants; processing purchase orders for supplies, preparing invoices, and conducting necessary training.subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include semi-annual reports of activities and deliverables for the previous six months, financial status reports for the previous six months, participation in meetings with the environmental protection agency, potentially responsible parties and their contractors, and other technical or legal staff as required. The expected outcomes include providing the environmental protection agency with a record of maryland department of the environment activities performed in accordance with the cooperative agreement work plan, with a record of core expenses, and with input and support. The intended beneficiaries include the residents of the state of maryland.