This agreement provides funding to new mexico to carry out its program to maintain, protect, and improve the water quality of its rivers, lakes, streams, groundwater, and other waterbodies

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 awarded the New Mexico Environment Department $1,512,641 under the Water Pollution Control State, Interstate, and Tribal Program Support (CFDA 66.419) on December 3, 2025, for water quality monitoring, assessment and development of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), water quality standards and planning, and finance and administration operations. The award funds the New Mexico Environment Department's Surface Water Quality Bureau and Ground Water Bureau to maintain, protect, and improve the water quality of rivers, lakes, streams, groundwater, and other waterbodies throughout the state. The department will conduct state-wide water quality monitoring that evaluates all watersheds approximately once every seven to eight years according to the Statewide Water Quality Monitoring Strategy to identify water quality problems and data needs. Deliverables include submission of all data collected into the EPA Water Quality Exchange (WQX) database and semi-annual progress reports. No subawards are included in this assistance agreement. Performance runs through September 30, 2027, with all work performed in New Mexico.

The environmental benefits of this program include preventing degradation of unimpaired waterbodies and reducing the number of impaired waterbodies in the state. Activities:activities includes: - water quality monitoring; - assessment and development of total maximum daily load's (tmdl); - water quality standards and planning; - finance and administration - operations; this agreement provides funding under the clean water act section 106 program, and the workplan `aligns with pillar 1: clean air, land, and water for every american and pillar 3: cooperative federalism. Under this work plan, the new mexico environmental department's (nmed) surface water quality bureau (swqb) and the ground water quality bureau (gwqb) will administer the grant and manage the water quality contracts. The bureaus identify water quality problems and associated data needs by means of a targeted, state-wide monitoring plan that provides for the evaluation of all watersheds in the state approximately once every seven to eight years in accordance with the statewide water quality monitoring strategy. The recipient will support the water pollution prevention program through activities focused on maintaining, restoring, and/or improving water quality through a variety of methods. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:anticipated deliverables to the environmental protection agency (EPA) by new mexico environmental department' include the submission of all data collected into the EPA water quality exchange (WQX) database and submission of semi-annual progress reports. Expected outcomes include an increased understanding of the state's surface water quality. The direct beneficiaries of the agreement are the residents of the state of new mexico.