This agreement is to fund the state of california's water quality management planning program to improve impaired water and protect unimpaired waters across the state by conducting planning that…

This EPA Region 9 Formula Grant award of $2,387,000 under the Water Quality Management Planning program (CFDA 66.454) will fund the State of California's comprehensive water quality management planning activities over a 5-year period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2029. The key products and services to be delivered include:

Conducting planning activities to improve impaired waters and protect unimpaired waters across California, such as amending biostimulation, cyanotoxin, and biological condition provisions, developing an Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Ocean Plan Amendment, and supporting statewide tribal beneficial use designations. Additional sub-award activities will focus on ocean acidification and hypoxia modeling, constituents of emerging concern monitoring, watershed prioritization, and restoration planning projects. The intended beneficiaries are the people of California and other states/tribes affected by the quality of California's water bodies.

This grant award enables the State of California Water Resources Control Board, a critical state government agency, to implement a wide range of water quality management planning initiatives in coordination with regional planning organizations and tribal partners to advance environmental protection and sustainability goals across California.

This agreement is to fund the state of california's water quality management planning program to improve impaired water and protect unimpaired waters across the state by conducting planning that informs and supports implementation of clean water act programs. This assistance agreement provides full federal funding in the amount of $2,387.000. See terms and conditions. Activities:the activities to be performed include the following water quality management planning activities. State of california personnel activities include biostimulation, cyanotoxins, and biological condition provisions, ocean acidification and hypoxia ocean plan amendment, basin planning coordination with the regional boards, and grant program administration. Subaward activities include the statewide tribal beneficial use designation support, the tribal beneficial use identification in ventura and LOS angeles counties, ocean acidification and hypoxia modeling, constituents of emerging concern statewide pilot monitoring supplement, east fork carson river prioritization project, the werner lake restoration and water quality improvement planning project, and work by sea grant fellows assisting on ocean plan amendments and the state water quality protection area process. Pass-through activities include assistance for management practice planning project in the LOS angeles region.subrecipient:subaward activities include the statewide tribal beneficial use designation support, the tribal beneficial use identification in ventura and LOS angeles counties, ocean acidification and hypoxia modeling, constituents of emerging concern statewide pilot monitoring supplement, east fork carson river prioritization project, the werner lake restoration and water quality improvement planning project, and work by sea grant fellows assisting on ocean plan amendments and the state water quality protection area process. Pass-through subaward activities include assistance for management practice planning project in the LOS angeles region.outcomes:the deliverables to be provided under this agreement are: 1) biostimulation, cyanotoxins, and biological condition provisions - amend project charter, draft data-backed problem statement, water board internal advisory group, public workshops. 2) ocean acidification and hypoxia ocean plan amendment - report on the findings of the independent review panel of the roms-BEC model, outline of the ocean plan amendment. 3) statewide tribal beneficial use designation and standards support - to be determined. 4) tribal beneficial use identification in ventura and LOS angeles counties - to be determined. 5) ocean acidification and hypoxia modeling - to be determined. 6) constituents of emerging concern statewide pilot monitoring supplement - to be determined. 7) east fork carson river prioritization project - to be determined. 8) werner lake restoration and water quality improvement planning project - to be determined. 9) assistance for management practice planning project in the LOS angeles region - to be determined, 10) sea fellow subaward to assist on ocean plan amendments - to be determined, 11) sea fellow subaward in regional board 3 to assist on state water quality protection area process - to be determined. Grant will be conditionally approved pending california submission and EPA approval of an amended workplan with subaward deliverables. The expected outcomes resulting from these efforts include completion of activities that carry out a water quality management planning program with environmental outputs related to restoring the state of california's impaired waters and protecting healthy waters. The intended beneficiaries include the people of the state of california and people that reside in other states and tribes that are affected by the quality california's water bodies.