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

This $2.6 million 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 June 2027. The grant funding will support 10 subawards totaling $2.6 million to fund on-the-ground projects, outreach, education, and capacity building activities designed to address nonpoint source pollution across Wyoming per EPA's Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants program (CFDA #66.460). Key deliverables include annual and final reports on subaward progress and data submitted to EPA's national nonpoint source database. Anticipated outcomes include sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus reductions from 14 subaward projects improving water quality and restoring streams and lakes impacted by nonpoint runoff.

This agreement provides support to the state of wyoming 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 is used for the implementation of activities that are consistent with recommendations described in the wyoming nonpoint source management plan. Wyoming supports an extensive subaward program which funds projects across the state to address nonpoint source issues. These implementation activities or practices are identified in a DEQ-accepted watershed restoration plan (WRP). These projects address impairments identified on wyoming's list of impaired waters. In some instances, projects on streams that are not listed as impaired may be acceptable. These projects must reduce pollutant loading to an impaired, downstream receiving water or protect existing uses from becoming impaired.subrecipient:the 10 subawards funded in this grant will fund on-the-ground projects, outreach and education activities, local capacity building, water quality restoration projects, which are all designed to address nonpoint source pollution.outcomes:the 319 nonpoint source program provides funding for design and implementation of projects that reduce and prevent nonpoint source pollution in impaired waterbodies while improving water quality and restoring natural stream and lake processes. The anticipated deliverables are annual and final reports that describes the work that has occurred under the grant, data input to the national nonpoint source database, education and outreach activities. The expected environmental outcomes include reductions in sediment, nitrogen and phosphorus from fourteen subawards. The intended beneficiary is cleaner water in rivers and streams, improved habitat for aquatic species and healthy watersheds across the state of wyoming and all state residents and occupants who benefit from healthier watersheds.