The Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 awarded $177,544 to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control under the Water Pollution Control State, Interstate, and Tribal Program Support federal grant program (CFDA 66.419) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. Funding will allow the state to undertake supplemental monitoring initiatives to build capacity in its monitoring programs. Activities may include using statistical surveys, improving data management systems, enhancing biological monitoring efforts, expanding monitoring networks, monitoring new water types, and obtaining monitoring equipment and contractual services. Outcomes will include monitoring and sampling training, developing a Quality Assurance Project Plan, collecting monitoring samples, analyzing data, and uploading to EPA's Water Quality Exchange system. Direct beneficiaries are South Carolina citizens.
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