This agreement provides funding for the operation of the nottawaseppi huron band of the potawatomi (NHBP) continuing environmental programs while giving IT greater flexibility to address its highest…

Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded $331,500 to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi on April 1, 2026, under the Performance Partnership Grants program (CFDA 66.605) to operate the tribe's continuing environmental programs through March 31, 2030.

The tribe will protect and maintain water quality, establish and enhance a brownfields site response program with four core elements, and prevent and control surface and groundwater pollution from point and non-point sources on the Huron Potawatomi Reservation in Fulton, Michigan. Work includes building environmental program infrastructure, developing administrative, technical, legal, enforcement, and communications capacity, and establishing environmental education and outreach needed to implement EPA environmental programs through delegation, certification, approval, and authorization. The Performance Partnership Grants structure provides the tribe flexibility to address its highest environmental priorities, achieve administrative savings, and strengthen its partnership with EPA through a single application, budget, and consolidated work plan rather than separate submissions for each eligible program component.

The award carries no subawards. Direct beneficiaries are citizens of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi.

This agreement provides funding for the operation of the nottawaseppi huron band of the potawatomi (NHBP) continuing environmental programs while giving IT greater flexibility to address its highest environmental priorities, improve environmental performance, achieve administrative savings and strengthen the partnership between NHBP and environmental protection agency (EPA). The work includes outputs and outcomes associated with managing continuing environmental programs which include activities to protect and maintain environmental program capacity building, water quality, and brownfields capability.activities:specifically, NHBP will protect the quality of the tribe's water, land, and air resources by building and enhancing the basic infrastructure of an environmental program, establish and enhance the site response program that includes the four elements of a brownfields program, and maintain adequate measures for the prevention and control of surface and groundwater pollution from both point and non-point sources.subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the work includes outputs and outcomes associated with managing continuing environmental programs which include deliverables to protect and maintain environmental program capacity building, water quality, and brownfields capability. This includes planning, developing, and establishing the administrative, technical, legal, enforcement, communications, and environmental education and outreach infrastructure needed to assume and implement EPA environmental programs through delegation, certification, approval and/or authorization. The direct beneficiaries of this agreement are the citizens of the NHBP.