The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $493,802 Project Grant to the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program. The purpose of this grant is to conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants in the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation communities, which face environmental and health disparities due to pollution and the COVID-19...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe in Nevada under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program. The grant will fund ambient air monitoring of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) pollutants in communities with environmental and health disparities stemming from pollution and COVID-19. The data collected will...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant to the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska under the 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program. The grant funding will be used by the Ponca Tribe to expand and enhance their air monitoring activities. Specifically, the tribe will purchase and deploy six multipollutant air sensors to monitor particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide,...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $115,000 Project Grant under the Federal Grant Program 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. The grant will fund the expansion and enhancement of the tribe's air monitoring activities, with a focus on collecting quality-assured data to assess polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) within and transported onto the Leech...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $285,275 Project Grant under the CFDA Program 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act to the La Posta Band of Mission Indians. The funding will be used to expand and enhance the tribe's air monitoring activities, including upgrading existing monitoring sites to measure nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide, purchasing auxiliary equipment to support...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 awarded a $120,000 Project Grant to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program (CFDA 66.034). The purpose of the award is to advance enhanced monitoring of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and other national ambient air quality standards pollutants in rural Alaska communities facing disproportionate exposure and...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $124,677 Project Grant to the Penobscot Indian Nation under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" (CFDA 66.034) program. The grant funding will be used by the tribe to expand and enhance their air monitoring activities, with a focus on sampling and collecting data for 67 hazardous air toxics on the Penobscot Indian Nation reservation. Key...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" (CFDA 66.034) program to the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) in Arizona. The funding will support the expansion and enhancement of GRIC's air monitoring activities, including documenting project progress, replacing air monitoring equipment at three regulatory sites, and...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $1,060,700 Project Grant under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC) in Arizona. The funding will support the expansion and enhancement of SRPMIC's air monitoring activities, including replacing the site shelter, air pollution and meteorological instruments, air pollution...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $199,349 Project Grant under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" (CFDA 66.034) program to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. The funding will support the expansion and enhancement of the tribe's air monitoring activities over a 3-year period from October 2024 to September 2027. Key project activities include improving...