This agreement provides funding to idaho to carry out its program to maintain, protect, and improve the water quality of its rivers, lakes, streams, groundwater, and other waterbodies

Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 awarded the State of Idaho Department of Environmental Quality $168,775 on March 1, 2026, under the Water Pollution Control State, Interstate, and Tribal Program Support program (CFDA 66.419) to maintain, protect, and improve water quality across Idaho's rivers, lakes, streams, groundwater, and other waterbodies.

The recipient will develop electronic field forms and data transfer systems from field to database, contract to refine assessment models, and purchase equipment to improve stream assessment accuracy. Deliverables include streamlined data acquisition and statewide assessments. Expected outcomes encompass improved statewide capacity to generate and share high-quality, comparable data applicable to water quality criteria assessments; a new biological assessment framework to increase assessment decision accuracy; and fish species data from over 100 locations statewide to support development of the new biological assessment framework. The program aims to prevent degradation of unimpaired waterbodies and reduce the number of impaired waterbodies in the state. Direct beneficiaries are Idaho residents.

The award carries no subawards. Performance occurs statewide in Idaho, with a period of performance from March 1, 2026, through November 30, 2028.

The environmental benefits of this program include preventing degradation of unimpaired waterbodies and reducing the number of impaired waterbodies in the state. Activities:activities include continued development of electronic field forms and data transfer from field to database, contracting to refine models and purchase of equipment to improve stream assessment accuracy. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include streamlined data acquisition and statewide assessments. The expected outcomes include improved statewide capacity to generate and share high-quality, comparable data that cam be applied to multiple program needs, including water quality criteria assessments; a new biological assessment framework to improve accuracy of assessment decisions; and fish species data from over 100 locations throughout idaho to aid in development of the new biological assessment framework. The direct beneficiaries of the agreement are the residents of the state of idaho.