The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) was awarded $100,000 under the Water Quality Management Planning Formula Grant program by the Environmental Protection Agency Region 8. The grant will fund Wyoming's statewide water quality management planning program through September 30, 2023. The program is designed to increase public awareness and understanding of water quality protection and improvement efforts across Wyoming. DEQ will use 40% of the award funding, or $40,000, to provide...
This $164,000 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Water Quality Management Planning program (CFDA 66.454) will fund water quality improvement and protection efforts in the state of Wyoming. The grant supports two key projects: 1) The Boysen Nutrient Reduction Strategy Phase I Supplemental project, which will develop a public-friendly report characterizing the Boysen Reservoir watershed, assist with public outreach, and initiate nonpoint source...
This $1,646,252 federal Formula Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 under the Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants program (CFDA 66.460) provides support to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) to implement its nonpoint source management program. The funding will support seven projects focused on restoring water quality in impaired watersheds across Wyoming by implementing structural and non-structural best management practices (BMPs),...
This $168,775 federal Formula Grant award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Water Pollution Control State, Interstate, and Tribal Program Support (CFDA 66.419) program, will enable the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality to carry out a comprehensive program to maintain, protect, and improve the water quality of the state's rivers, lakes, streams, groundwater, and other waterbodies. Key activities include seasonal surface water quality monitoring,...
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) received a $1,611,667 Formula Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 under the Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants program (CFDA 66.460). This 5-year grant supports WDEQ's implementation of its Nonpoint Source Management Program to address water quality impairments caused by polluted runoff in Wyoming. The grant funds three subawards for on-the-ground projects, outreach/education activities, and water quality...
This $151,000 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Water Quality Management Planning program (CFDA 66.454) will fund the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality's (WDEQ) efforts to develop a water quality protection plan for the Boysen Reservoir. Key activities include data compilation, source identification, reporting, education and outreach, and monitoring related to cyanobacteria and microcystin levels. The grant will support the first phase of...
This $128,000 formula grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency supports Colorado's Water Quality Management Planning Program. The program aims to improve impaired waters and protect unimpaired waters across the state through September 2023. As outlined in the Water Quality Management Planning federal grant program (CFDA 66.454), 40% of the funding or $51,200 will be provided as sub-awards to three regional water quality planning organizations for development and implementation of...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 awarded the State of Utah Department of Environmental Quality a $100,000 Formula Grant under the Water Quality Management Planning program (CFDA 66.454). The two-year grant will fund Utah's statewide water quality management planning program through September 2023. The program is designed to improve impaired waters and protect unimpaired waters across Utah through increased public awareness and understanding of water quality protection efforts....
This $245,000 formula grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 supports water quality management planning activities in Colorado through September 2024. The award funds the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to implement the state's water quality management plan under the Water Quality Management Planning program (CFDA #66.454). Key activities include regional water quality planning by four subrecipients - the North Front Range Water Quality Planning...
This $967,000 five-year Formula Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 supports the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality's implementation of the state's Nonpoint Source Management Program through EPA's Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants (CFDA #66.460) program. Focusing on watersheds impaired by nonpoint source pollution, the Department will undertake a variety of structural and non-structural best management practices, watershed planning, monitoring, technology...