The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) was awarded a $7,018,665 Cooperative Agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Public Health Emergency Response: Cooperative Agreement for Emergency Response (CFDA 93.354) program. The award, effective January 17, 2025 through January 16, 2026, will enable CDPHE to enhance its public health emergency management capabilities and rapidly respond to public health emergencies that overwhelm local...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $272,718 from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 provides funding for the Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico to operate its continuing environmental programs through September 30, 2022. The award supports the Pueblo of Taos in building administrative capacity for its environmental department and carrying out water quality monitoring programs to maintain, protect and improve the quality of rivers, lakes, streams and groundwater on tribal lands. Key activities...
This EPA Region 6 Performance Partnership Grant (CFDA 66.605) awarded $333,000 to the Pueblo of Taos to support the tribe's comprehensive environmental programs and priorities. The 1-year cooperative agreement, effective October 1, 2024, funds the Taos Pueblo's environmental monitoring, water quality assessment, and pollution prevention activities. Key project elements include water quality monitoring, watershed planning, nonpoint source pollution control, environmental outreach, and building...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Performance Partnership Grants (CFDA 66.605) program, funds the operation of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's (CDPHE) continuing environmental programs. The $10,747,768 award covers the period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. The agreement supports CDPHE's environmental programs in areas such as air quality permitting, water quality, hazardous waste...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program (CFDA 66.616) provides $18,590,988 in full federal funding to Pueblo Unido CDC to build a climate-smart, climate-resilient Center for Community Development and Resilience (CCDR). The project will integrate green building elements, green infrastructure, and climate change adaptation strategies, as well as provide workforce development programs...
This $500,000 Project Grant award, provided by the Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509), aims to develop a mixed methods approach for collecting environmental, social, food, and health data to evaluate changes in contaminant exposure from climate change stressors in Vieques, Puerto Rico. The key objectives are to: 1) develop a community-centered framework to assess the cumulative impacts of environmental exposures, climate change, and...
This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program (CFDA 66.046) provides $650,000 in funding to the Tesuque Pueblo Administration to develop climate action plans for the Pueblo of Tesuque and four other neighboring Pueblos in northern New Mexico. Specifically, the Tesuque Pueblo Administration will collaborate with the Pueblos of Pojoaque, Nambe, San Ildefonso, and Picuris to establish a Tribal...
The Santo Domingo Pueblo's (Kewa Pueblo) Kewa Health Outreach Program (KHOP) received a $2 million, 60-month Cooperative Agreement award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Investigations and Technical Assistance program (CFDA 93.283). The award will fund a "Cultural Approach to Good Health in Indian Country" program to implement chronic disease prevention and management strategies within the Kewa Pueblo community in New Mexico. The program aims to increase...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 awarded the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment a $445,000 Project Grant under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program (CFDA 66.034). The grant will fund upgrading 12 air quality monitors, 6 monitor shelters, and associated data logging and meteorological equipment to enhance particulate matter 2.5 monitoring in communities near Denver,...
The Pueblo of Sandia received a $146,164 Cooperative Agreement award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program (CFDA 66.046) to develop or enhance climate action plans that establish GHG emission reduction goals and strategies. The key deliverables include a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) due by March 1, 2024, and a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) due by the end of the 4-year grant period on December 31, 2024. The...