Project Grant 00E01105

The City of Milwaukee was awarded a $760,000 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative CFDA 66.469 to redevelop an industrial brownfield site adjacent to an existing public playground in an underserved community. The City will create a new neighborhood park that will manage over 93,000 gallons of stormwater per rain event through green infrastructure features such as bioswales, native plantings, and porous...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 awarded $250,000 to the City of Superior under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) effective August 1, 2025, through April 30, 2028. The grant funds planning and design activities for public access improvements along a 22.5-acre waterfront parcel containing 7,550 feet of shoreline on the St. Louis River and Allouez Bay. Project deliverables include a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP), conceptual...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded $2,152,513 to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) on September 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for December 31, 2030. The project delivers three primary products and services: (1) development and field testing of supplemental sea lamprey control techniques; (2) design and engineering plans for a new sea lamprey barrier on the Grand River in Grand...

Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded a $1.35 million Cooperative Agreement to South St. Louis Soil & Water Conservation District on October 1, 2026, under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to design and implement the removal of two barrier culverts and replacement of one with a stream-simulation crossing on Coffee Creek, a cold-water tributary to Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota. The district will conduct final engineering design,...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) provides $699,000.00 in funding to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Office of Coastal Management (ODNR OCM) to monitor wetland sites within the Lake Erie watershed in the Maumee River basin. The activities will involve sampling soils in multiple wetland restoration projects to measure parameters that predict phosphate retention and...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 has awarded a $7,561,778 Project Grant to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (MDEGLE) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469). The purpose of this 5-year grant award is to evaluate gaps in previously collected sediment data within the Detroit River Area of Concern (AOC) in order to further define the scope of future sediment cleanup actions. Key activities include: 1)...

EPA Region 9 awarded the City of Oakland $959,757 in full federal funding on February 1, 2026, under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) to implement the Lake Merritt Healthy Lake Initiative, a water quality protection project directed by the 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act. The City of Oakland will execute monitoring and evaluation, management planning, and project management activities to improve dissolved oxygen levels in Lake Merritt and protect aquatic life....

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded a $9 million cooperative agreement to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy on June 1, 2026, to complete a feasibility study and remedial design for the Harbortown Upstream and Harbortown Shoreline Remediation Sites in the Detroit River Area of Concern, under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469). The recipient will develop remedial action objectives and preliminary remediation goals, evaluate...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 awarded the City of Toledo a $1,459,500 Project Grant under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2027. The project will restore over 3,000 linear feet of Duck Creek in Collins Park within the Maumee Area of Concern (AOC) by naturalizing the channelized creek, daylighting underground sections, expanding the floodplain, reintroducing...

This $1,600,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) supports the State of Ohio Office of Budget and Management, doing business as the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA), and its partner local governments in Lucas, Defiance, and Ottawa Counties. The project aims to increase the ability of ditches and streams to intercept runoff and reduce the delivery of nutrients...