This agreement provides funding for the operation of the HOH indian tribe continuing environmental programs while giving IT greater flexibility to improve environmental performance, achieve…

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 awarded $691,435 to the Hoh Indian Tribe under the Performance Partnership Grants program (CFDA 66.605) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. This award includes $487,435 in competitive Tribal Wetland Program Development Grant funding. The grant supports the Tribe's development and operation of comprehensive environmental programs, enabling greater administrative flexibility and strengthening the partnership between the Tribe and EPA. Core deliverables include planning and implementation of environmental program capacities focused on administrative and financial systems, information management, environmental baseline needs assessment, public education, and technical/analytical data collection and management.

Specific products and services include water quality planning, monitoring, data management, and reporting; non-point source pollution assessment and management; development and implementation of a wetland protection plan; professional development training for staff; water quality monitoring activities; and submission of water quality reports to EPA. The University of Washington serves as a subrecipient, completing a wetland inventory and conducting site visits with Hoh Tribe experts to verify mapped wetland sites through ground-truthing activities. The work collectively addresses environmental and public health concerns related to pollution while building the Tribe's long-term environmental program capacity.

This agreement provides funding for the operation of the HOH indian tribe 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. $487,435 of tribal wetland program development grant competitive funding awarded under EPA-OW-owow-24-04: fiscal year 2024 tribal wetland program development grants is obligated as part of this new award funding action. 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. The recipient will conduct water quality planning, monitoring, data management and reporting, and non-point source assessment and management activities. The recipient will also develop and implement a wetland protection plan.subrecipient:subaward is with the university of washington. They will complete a wetland inventory and conduct site visits with HOH tribe experts. University researchers also will randomly select sites mapped as wetlands in the inventory for additional visits, providing a form of ground verification for the wetland inventory.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 a water quality report and submit to EPA, and conduct non-point source protection activities. The recipient will also develop and implement a wetland protection plan. 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. Other outcomes include enhanced wetlands preservation by creating a wetland inventory and determination report and an improved ability to restore wetlands. Direct beneficiaries of this grant are members of the HOH indian tribe.