This agreement provides support to the state of missouri to implement its nonpoint source management program, focusing on watersheds with water quality impairments caused by polluted runoff from…

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 awarded the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MODNR) a $3.24 million Formula Grant under the Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants program (CFDA #66.460) to implement Missouri's Nonpoint Source Management Program from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2027. The grant will support MODNR's efforts to protect, maintain, and improve water quality across Missouri through the implementation of best management practices that reduce nonpoint source water pollution. Key activities include technical assistance, education programs, technology demonstrations, water quality monitoring and assessment, and watershed planning. MODNR will provide final reports, annual performance reports, load reduction data, management plans, and implementation plans. Subawards will fund activities aligned with Missouri's Nonpoint Source Management Plan, focusing on specific TMDLs and stream segments, and will include best management practices, information/education programs, partnerships, and water quality protection plans. The grant aims to prevent degradation of unimpaired waterbodies and reduce impaired waterbodies across the state.

This agreement provides support to the state of missouri to implement its nonpoint source management program, focusing on watersheds with water quality impairments caused by polluted runoff from nonpoint sources. Nonpoint source implementation projects include a variety of structural and non-structural best management practices (BMPS), watershed planning, monitoring, technology demonstrations, and a variety of education/outreach programs.activities:this grant agreement will help provide technical assistance, financial assistance, education, training, technology transfer, demonstration projects, and water quality monitoring to implement and assess the success of specific nonpoint source pollution prevention projects. This grant provides funding to the missouri department of natural resources (MODNR) to carry out its nonpoint source management plan. MODNR will protect, maintain, and improve the water quality of waterbodies throughout their state by implementing best management practices that will reduce nonpoint source water pollution and by educating resource managers, public officials, community leaders and private citizens about the effects of human activities on water quality and what their communities can do to prevent and reduce nonpoint source pollution. Many of the projects MODNR implements to reduce nonpoint source pollution will involve the use of grant subrecipients. The environmental benefits of this program include preventing degradation of unimpaired waterbodies and reducing the number of impaired waterbodies in the state and improving water quality in states/communities downstream.subrecipient:the activities to be implemented through subawards include activities that aid in accomplishing the objectives of the missouri nonpoint source (NPS) management plan. These activities will focus on specific tmdls and stream segments to delist through a strategic planning process. These strategies included innovative best management practices (BMPS), information/education, partnerships, development of water quality protection plans, and implementation of water quality BMPS for activities and projects not addressed through other programs that could adversely affect water quality.outcomes:MODNR will provide the following deliverables: final reports based on project implementation plans, program annual reports, grant annual performance reports, load reduction data, nonpoint source management plans, project implementation plans, and watershed based plans. MODNR will protect, maintain, and improve the water quality of waterbodies throughout their state by implementing best management practices that will reduce nonpoint source water pollution and by educating resource managers, public officials, community leaders and private citizens about the effects of human activities on water quality and what their communities can do to prevent and reduce nonpoint source pollution. The environmental benefits of this program include preventing degradation of unimpaired waterbodies and reducing the number of impaired waterbodies in the state and improving water quality in states/communities downstream. Direct beneficiaries of this program include all state residents and occupants, both permanent and temporary.