This agreement will provide financial assistance to the recipient for the implementation of its program to ensure that underground sources of drinking water are protected from endangering injection…

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 awarded the State of Wyoming Oil and Gas Commission $274,667 under the State Underground Water Source Protection Formula Grant program (CFDA 66.433) from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The grant funds the implementation of Wyoming's program to protect underground sources of drinking water from endangering injection activities through activities such as developing and maintaining inventories of injection systems, compliance databases for underground injection wells, permitting programs, and enforcement activities. No subawards are included under this assistance agreement. The anticipated outcome is the protection of underground sources of drinking water from underground injection activities.

This agreement will provide financial assistance to the recipient for the implementation of its program to ensure that underground sources of drinking water are protected from endangering injection activities, in which treated waste water is injected into the ground between impermeable layers of rock formation.activities:the activities to be performed include the development and maintenance of inventories of injection systems; the development and maintenance of databases housing compliance information on underground injection well activities; the implementation of permitting activities; and the implementation of enforcement programs.subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated outcome is that underground sources of drinking water are protected from underground injection activities.