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

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 awarded the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality a $10,845,334 Formula Grant under the Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants program (CFDA #66.460). The grant provides funding from June 2022 through June 2027 to implement North Dakota's Nonpoint Source Management Program focusing on watersheds impaired by nonpoint source pollution.

Through 11 subawards, the grant will fund on-the-ground projects, outreach, education, capacity building, and water quality restoration projects. Subawardees include soil conservation districts, a water resource board, and non-profits conducting activities in watersheds like the Jamestown Reservoir, Upper Sheyenne River, Turtle River-Larimore Dam, and Antelope Creek. The projects aim to reduce sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus pollution and improve habitat. Expected outcomes include annual/final reports, data inputs to the national database, education activities, and cleaner water in North Dakota.

This agreement provides support to the state of north dakota 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 2021 north dakota nonpoint source management plan. North dakota 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 plan. These projects address impairments identified on north dakota'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 11 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 montana and all state residents and occupants who benefit from healthier watersheds.