The primary objectives of EPA's cercla section 128(a) state and tribal response program grants are to provide financial support to states, US territories, and tribal nations to (1) establish or…

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 awarded $120,138 to the Campo Band of Mission Indians through the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. This formula grant funds the tribe's capacity to establish and enhance its environmental response program for brownfield sites—properties whose expansion, redevelopment, or reuse may be complicated by hazardous substances. The award provides full federal funding to support the tribe's efforts to survey and inventory brownfield sites across tribal lands, establish oversight and enforcement authorities to protect human health and the environment, and implement mechanisms for approval and verification of cleanup plans.

Under this award, the Campo Band of Mission Indians will conduct planning, assessment, and cleanup activities on brownfield sites throughout their reservation in San Diego County, California. Key deliverables include performing timely surveys and inventories of brownfield properties, providing resources for meaningful public involvement in remediation efforts, conducting environmental outreach and public education, and maintaining an annually updated public record documenting completed and planned response actions. No subawards are included in this assistance agreement. The funding supports the tribe's goal to remediate and restore environmentally contaminated lands while building long-term tribal capacity for environmental response activities.

The primary objectives of EPA's cercla section 128(a) state and tribal response program grants are to provide financial support to states, US territories, and tribal nations to (1) establish or enhance the four statutory elements of an effective state or tribal response program, as specified in cercla section 128(a)(2), (2) maintain and update, at least annually, a public record of sites, pursuant to cercla 128(B), that includes the name and location of sites at which response actions have been completed during the previous year and the name and location of sites at which response actions are planned to be addressed in the next year, and (3) conduct a limited number of brownfield site assessments or cleanups that will help establish or enhance the state or tribal nation's response program. The purpose of this award is to enhance the capacity of campo band of mission indians (CBMI) response program to meet the section 128(a) elements. CBMI will oversee and perform planning, assessment, cleanup of brownfields sites throughout their tribal lands, and conduct environmental outreach. This assistance agreement provides full federal funding in the amount of $120,138. See terms and conditions. Activities:CBMI will perform the following activities: timely survey and inventory of brownfield sites, which are properties whose expansion, redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by the presence of hazardous substances. IT also includes oversight and enforcement authorities to ensure that response actions protect human health and the environment; resources to provide meaningful public involvement; mechanisms for approval of cleanup plans, and verification of complete responses. The objective of this project is to assist in remediating and reusing brownfields sites throughout the state, restore lands environmentally, and conduct environmental outreach. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:CBMI will expand public education and outreach of the CBMI voluntary cleanup program to small and stressed communities, assess multiple sites through the state targeted brownfield assessment program, oversee the cleanup of multiple sites, and enhance the capacity of the CBMI brownfields program.