This agreement provides funding for the operation of the kansas department of health and environment's (kdhe) continuing environmental programs while giving IT greater flexibility to address its…

Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 awarded the Kansas Department of Health and Environment $5.076 million on January 1, 2026, under the Performance Partnership Grants program (CFDA 66.605) to operate continuing environmental programs for water quality.

KDHE performs municipal pretreatment oversight and permitting, assisting municipalities in developing and administering local pretreatment programs to prevent interference, upset, bypass, or pass-through at publicly owned treatment works. The agency issues and reissues industrial pretreatment permits, conducts audits and pretreatment compliance inspections of KDHE-permitted industries, provides technical assistance, and submits audit and compliance inspection reports to EPA. KDHE supplies EPA with compliance reports for industrial users inside and outside approved local programs, including permit and industry counts, significant noncompliance metrics, compliance rates, and facility-level summaries.

For NPDES permitting, KDHE maintains current permits and completes annual industrial program data verification. The agency continues requiring total nitrogen and total phosphorus monitoring in appropriate major industrial NPDES permits and places nutrient limits in selected permits to reduce nutrient loads. KDHE provides EPA Region 7 with next-year compliance monitoring strategy and alternative plans for construction and industrial stormwater by year-end, maintains compliance rate, submits prior-year compliance monitoring strategy outputs, reports annual permit status across major categories, and submits a year-end list of expired and issued permits.

KDHE also performs compliance evaluation inspections and investigates citizen complaints at NPDES-permitted concentrated animal feeding operations and animal feeding operations.

Performance period extends from January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2027, with place of performance in Kansas.

This agreement provides funding for the operation of the kansas department of health and environment's (kdhe) 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 kdhe and EPA. This agreement funds state continuing environmental programs for water. Activities:the activities to be performed include: municipal pretreatment oversight and permitting - assist and oversee municipalities in developing/administering local pretreatment programs to prevent interference, upset, bypass, or pass-through at publicly owned treatment works. - issue/reissue industrial pretreatment permits; conduct audits/pretreatment compliance inspections of kdhe-permitted industries, providing technical assistance and sending audit/PCI reports to EPA. - provide compliance reports to EPA for industrial users both outside and within approved local programs, including counts of permits and industries, significant noncompliance metrics, compliance rates, and facility-level summaries. Npdes permitting, nutrients, and program performance - keep npdes permits current and complete annual industrial program data verification. - continue requiring TN/TP monitoring in appropriate major industrial npdes permits and place nutrient limits in selected permits to reduce nutrient loads. - provide EPA region 7 with the next-year compliance monitoring strategy and an alternative plan for construction/industrial stormwater by year-end; maintain at compliance rate; submit prior-year CMS outputs; report annual permit status across major categories; and submit a year-end list of expired and issued permits. - carry out npdes responsibilities per the kdhe/EPA memorandum of agreement. Cafo/AFO compliance and enforcement - perform compliance evaluation inspections per CMS; investigate citizen complaints at npdes-permitted cafos; report the number of formal enforcement actions. Drinking water sanitary surveys and reporting - complete sanitary surveys on time; submit quarterly survey data updates to EPA; submit section 142.15 reports on completions/non-completions and the percent of community systems surveyed within three years; and maintain an unregulated/emerging contaminants monitoring program if funded. Underground injection control (UIC) - implement regulations for class i, II, III, and v wells, including permitting, inventory and quarterly reporting, witnessing mechanical integrity tests, inspections, compliance/enforcement, notifying EPA of proposed state rule changes, requiring plugging of abandoned wells, and conducting outreach as resources allow; submit quarterly e-reporting; continue evaluating arbuckle formation fluid levels/pressures and seismicity with updates to EPA; and submit an annual summary of estimated permits, inspections, compliance inspections, well plugging, and MIT activities. General program commitment - carry out responsibilities for industrial and cafo npdes programs under the kdhe/EPA MOA (FEB 19, 2020).subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include: - annual progress reports will list the number and names of publicly owned treatment works audits/inspections and industrial inspections; copies of industrial inspection reports will be provided to EPA upon completion. - annual progress reports will include permit backlog (within the permit status report), overall compliance rate, the status of the CMS plan, permit status, and a list of issued and expired permits. - the number of inspections will be reported annually; counts of administrative penalty orders (apos) and administrative compliance orders (acos) will also be reported in the annual progress report. - a sanitary survey status report