This agreement provides funding from the infrastructure investment and jobs act (IIJA) to iipay nation of santa ysabel

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $1,500,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920). The purpose of this award is to enhance the tribe's efforts to manage post-consumer materials and divert approximately 21 tons of waste from landfills. The Iipay Nation will use the funding to build and staff a small-scale sorting and transfer station, implement an outreach campaign, and conduct activities aligned with the "5 Rs" of post-consumer materials management - recovering, reusing, recycling, repairing, and refurbishing appropriate materials. The anticipated deliverables include an integrated solid waste management plan, a quality assurance plan, equipment purchase summaries, training certificates, and data logs on waste collected and diverted. The expected outcomes include increased awareness of circular economy principles, greater community participation in the tribe's solid waste management program, and a cleaner environment with healthier tribal residents.

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 build and staff a small-scale sorting and transfer station and implement an outreach campaign to manage post-consumer materials and divert a approximately 21 tons of waste from landfills. Aligning with the five RS of post-consumer management, the sorting station will divert waste from landfills by recovering, reusing, recycling, repairing, and refurbishing appropriate materials and ultimately assist in creating a circular economy by developing a business model that allows post-consumer products to maintain their highest value for as long as possible. This assistance agreement provides full federal funding in the amount of $1,500,000.00. Preaward costs are approved back to 7/1/2024.activities:the activities to be performed include developing and updating plans that encourage post-consumer materials management, implementing data collection efforts that demonstrate progress towards the national recycling goal and waste reduction goal, building infrastructure and purchasing equipment for material management centers and establishing end markets for recycled materials to demonstrate an increase in the diversion of materials. Specifically, staff will host earth day events and participate in traditional gatherings to provide education on sustainable waste management and circular economy principals; conduct pick-up services from reservation households; sort and divert compost, recyclables, hazardous waste, and electronics; and collect and analyze waste data to inform future management. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include copies of rfps, a final integrated solid waste management plan, a quality assurance plan (qapp), summary reports of equipment purchased, meetings attended and work accomplished, training certificates, and data logs and reports from waste collected and diverted. The expected outcomes include increased awareness of circular economy principals, greater participation of community members in tribe's solid waste management program, not to mention a cleaner environment and healthier tribal residents. The intended beneficiaries include members of iipay nation of santa ysabel.