This agreement provides funding for the operation of the confederated tribes of the chehalis reservation continuing environmental programs while giving IT greater flexibility to improve…

The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation received a $228,000 Formula Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 under the Performance Partnership Grants program (CFDA 66.605) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029. This award funds the operation and expansion of the tribe's continuing environmental programs while providing administrative flexibility and strengthening the EPA-tribal partnership. The funding supports core environmental program development, including planning and establishment of administrative and financial systems, information management infrastructure, environmental baseline assessments, and public education initiatives.

Deliverables under this grant include water quality planning, monitoring, data management, and reporting activities; non-point source pollution assessment and management; and environmental protection across air, water, and land resources. The recipient will conduct professional development training to enhance staff capabilities, build tribal environmental program capacity, perform water quality monitoring activities, and produce water quality reports for EPA submission. Expected outcomes include increased knowledge and skills among tribal environmental staff regarding regional and national environmental issues, strengthened partnerships with stakeholders, improved understanding of cumulative health impacts, enhanced tribal decision-making on water resource management, and overall environmental health improvements across the reservation's lands, air, and water resources. No subawards are included in this assistance agreement.

This agreement provides funding for the operation of the confederated tribes of the chehalis reservation continuing environmental programs while giving IT greater flexibility to improve environmental performance, achieve administrative savings and strengthen the partnership between the tribe and EPA. This agreement provides funds to build and implement environmental programs and address environmental and public health concerns related to pollution.activities:activities to be performed under this agreement include planning, developing and establishing core environmental program capacities related to administrative and financial systems, information management, environmental baseline needs assessment, public education, and technical/analytical data collection. The recipient will conduct water quality planning, monitoring, data management and reporting, and non-point source assessment and management activities.subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the work includes deliverables associated with managing continuing environmental programs and activities to protect and maintain air, water, land and data quality, including environmental protection and management, non-point source activities, and management of data. The recipient will attend professional development training, continue to build the tribe's environmental programs, conduct water quality monitoring activities, draft water quality reports and submit them to EPA. Expected outcomes include increased skills and knowledge of tribal environmental staff, increased tribal knowledge of regional and national environmental issues, enhanced working relationships with partners, increased understanding of potential cumulative impacts to human health, increased knowledge of tribal waters to assist the tribe in making sound decisions regarding water resource management, and the tribe's lands, air and water will become healthier. Direct beneficiaries of this grant are members of the chehalis tribe.