Project Grant 00E05065
- This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469), will fund the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe to collect and analyze fish tissue data samples from the St. Lawrence River area of concern (AOC). The $997,503 award will support at least 2 years of field collection, sample analysis, and reporting to update fish consumption advisories for the Mohawk and New York State communities. The...
- The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe was awarded a $649,915 Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to conduct liver histology in fish in the St. Lawrence River Area of Concern (AOC). The activities include collecting a minimum of 560 brown bullhead and surrogate fish species, extracting liver samples, and performing laboratory analysis to gather data for the removal of the Beneficial Use...
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), through the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469), awarded a $347,160 Project Grant to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The grant funds will be used to identify critical spawning habitat for walleye, lake trout, and lake whitefish along New York's Lake Erie shoreline. The project involves capturing, tagging, and tracking the movement of these three fish species using acoustic...
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant to the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) federal grant program. The funding will support the tribe in filling traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) data gaps related to past and current beneficial use impairment assessments in the St. Lawrence River Area of Concern (AOC). Key activities include plant and wildlife contaminant monitoring,...
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $267,088 Project Grant under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to Health Research, Inc. (HRI), through the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), to develop communication options for a new, more protective fish consumption advisory in New York. HRI will create culturally appropriate outreach materials, including spoken-word videos, to inform English-speaking anglers and Burmese/Karen...
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $733,334 Project Grant under the Geographic Programs - Lake Champlain Basin Program (CFDA 66.481) to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The grant funding will support DEC's implementation of New York's portion of the Lake Champlain Management Plan. Key activities include: Implementing rural road best management practices to remediate erosion and altered hydrology associated with forest trails and roads...
- This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) provides $274,200 in funding to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (MDEGLE) to collect and analyze fish samples for contaminant monitoring. The goal is to establish or evaluate current fish consumption advisories in Michigan. Key activities include fish collections, sample preparation, contaminant analysis for...
- This $5,600,000 federal Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Lake Champlain Basin Program (CFDA 66.481), provides funding to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to implement the Lake Champlain Management Plan. The key activities include implementing water quality improvement projects, reducing nutrient loading and sedimentation, developing flood mitigation studies, and stabilizing streambanks in the...
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $300,000 project grant to the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) program. The grant will fund a 4-year effort by the tribe to provide traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) education to the Akwesasne community about traditional practices in the St. Lawrence River Area of Concern. The tribe will host a minimum of 40 educational workshops related to ecological activities,...
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 awarded a $120,000 Project Grant under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). This funding will support MDHHS in finalizing the design of new fish consumption advisory signs, creating a signage database for their 'Eat Safe Fish' program, and producing and posting 640 new and updated signs across Michigan to provide the public with...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $1,205,540 Project Grant to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) program. The funding will support NYSDEC in processing and analyzing fish samples collected by the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe at 13 locations in and around the St. Lawrence River Area of Concern near Massena, NY. NYSDEC will prepare the fish tissues, arrange contaminant analysis for PCBs, organochlorine pesticides, mercury, and dioxins/furans, and complete data validation. The key project deliverables are: 1) assessing the current status of contaminants in fish species relevant to the area and local consumers, and 2) determining if previously sampled contaminants are changing in concentration. This information will enable project partners to re-evaluate and possibly update fish consumption advisories and the status of associated beneficial use impairments in the Area of Concern. The performance period for this grant is from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.2m | 8/5/25 |