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

Regis mohawk tribe. 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 expand and develop its materials management infrastructure to complement ongoing $2.5 million capital investments. Proposed activities include engineering and construction of an energy efficient cardboard processing facility and a food waste composting facility, purchase of electric vehicle and handling equipment, upgrading an electrical system by replacing a diesel generator electrical supply with 3-phase electrical grid connection. Community engagement through partnerships is planned to support increased recycling and organic waste composting. Activities:the activities to be performed are: expand materials management infrastructure; establish end markets for additional recycled materials; support economic development and quality of life for the tribal community through a circular economy; implement a circular economy on a tribal scale through recycling.subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:deliverables: development of standard operating procedures (sops) for composting of food waste; new equipment to expand recycling; a composting facility; establishing a collection network for food scraps outcomes: increase in tons of cardboard processed annually; increase in tons of food waste diverted from the landfill annually and composted; tons of GHG emissions avoided, and job creation. Beneficiaries: direct beneficiaries of this program would be the residents of the saint regis mohawk tribe community.