This agreement provides support to the state of pennsylvania to implement its nonpoint source management program, focusing on watersheds with water quality impairments caused by polluted run-off…

This $8.3 million Formula Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants program (CFDA #66.460) provides funding to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2026 to implement the state's nonpoint source pollution management program. The program focuses on improving water quality in watersheds impaired by polluted runoff from nonpoint sources. Projects implemented by the state grantee and ten conservation district and nonprofit sub-awardees include a variety of structural and non-structural best management practices, watershed planning, monitoring, technology demonstrations, and education/outreach programs to reduce pollutant loads from approved watershed-based plans and ultimately restore impaired waterbodies.

This agreement provides support to the state of pennsylvania to implement its nonpoint source management program, focusing on watersheds with water quality impairments caused by polluted run-off from nonpoint sources. Nonpoint source implementation projects can be conducted by both the state grant recipient as well as by a variety of subrecipients, and include a variety of structural and non-structural best management practices (bmps), watershed planning, monitoring, technology demonstrations, and a variety of education/outreach programs. The implementation projects are expected to primarily achieve pollutant load reductions in watersheds with clean water act section 319 approved watershed-based plans, ultimately leading to restoration of waterbodies and attainment of water quality standards. The beneficiaries are citizens in the state of pennsylvania.