This agreement provides funding to pennsylvania department of environmental protection to operate their air pollution control program

Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 awarded the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection $12.701 million on October 1, 2025, under the Air Pollution Control Program Support (CFDA 66.001) formula grant to operate its air pollution control program and improve and maintain air quality across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The recipient will implement activities within the Section 105 program scope, including analysis and planning for attainment and maintenance of National Ambient Air Quality Standards; control strategy development and implementation; reduction of risks from hazardous air pollutants; air quality monitoring and modeling; emissions inventory; regulation development and implementation; non-Title V permitting and enforcement; public outreach; staff training and development; air pollution data analysis and management; cross-media analysis and control; pollution prevention activities; and innovative approaches to pollution reduction including market-based programs. The recipient will identify air toxins and assess the effects of atmospheric toxic pollutants. No subawards are included in this agreement.

Anticipated deliverables include annual reports, work plans, mid-year reports, quality assurance documentation, and updated State Implementation Plan documentation.

Period of performance runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. Federal funds in the amount of $15.051 million are contingent upon availability. Place of performance is Pennsylvania.

The purpose of this project is to improve and maintain the air quality for the commonwealth of pennsylvania. Through this project, pennsylvania of environmental protection will identify air toxins and assess the effects of atmospheric toxic pollutants. Federal funds in the amount of $15,051,676 are contingent upon availability. Activities:the recipient will implement activities within the scope of the section 105 program, which will include: 1) implementing national priorities as defined in EPA national guidance and consistent with EPA's strategic plan, 2) actions mandated by statute or regulation, and 3) program activities delegated to the recipient (state, local or tribe) for which EPA provides section 105 grant funding. A continuing program typically includes, but is not limited to, such activities as analysis and planning for attainment and maintenance of national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS); control strategy development and implementation; reduction of risks from hazardous air pollutants; air quality monitoring; ambient air quality and source modeling; inventory of emissions; regulation development and implementation; non-title V related permitting and enforcement; public outreach; staff training and development; air pollution data analysis and management; air cross-media analysis and control; air pollution prevention activities; and other innovative approaches to pollution reduction including economic incentive and market-based (allowance and trading) programs.subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:anticipated deliverables include annual reports, work plans, mid-year reports, quality assurance documentation, and updated SIP documentation. Outcomes include a broadened awareness of air quality programs that are established to address the attainment and maintenance of NAAQS, as well as, immediate and emerging threats to public health and welfare from air pollution (CAA 105(a)). Direct beneficiaries of this program are the residents of the commonwealth of pennsylvania.