This $144,750 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program (CFDA 66.817) will enhance the capacity of the Makah Indian Tribe's Brownfields Response Program. The funding will support the tribe's efforts to survey and inventory brownfield sites, provide oversight and enforcement to ensure protective cleanup actions, facilitate public involvement, and approve and verify completed responses. The...
This $144,750 Project Grant was awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through its CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program to the Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation. The grant's primary objectives are to: (1) establish or enhance the Makah Tribe's statutory elements for an effective brownfields response program, (2) maintain and update their public record of sites with completed or planned response actions, and (3) conduct a limited number of...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 awarded the Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation a $144,750 Project Grant under the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) program. The funding supports the Tribe's response program, which includes oversight and enforcement focused on oil pollution and spill prevention impacting tribal resources. It also supports continued survey and inventory of brownfield sites on the reservation, providing public involvement in...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Squaxin Island Tribe a $100,000 Project Grant under the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA #66.817) to enhance the Tribe's Brownfields response program capacity from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. The Tribe will perform activities to inventory, assess, and remediate brownfield sites on tribal lands, including timely surveying and inventorying of sites; overseeing response actions to protect human health and the...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $319,410 Project Grant to the Central Council Tlingit And Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817). The purpose of this one-year award, effective October 1, 2024, is to enhance the tribe's brownfields response program by conducting site surveys and inventories, providing public involvement, and overseeing the assessment and cleanup of brownfields sites throughout...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $305,907 Project Grant to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation under the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA #66.817) program. The grant will enhance the Tribe's capacity to respond to brownfield sites by funding planning, assessment, and cleanup activities from October 2022 through September 2023. Specifically, the Tribe will inventory brownfield properties, oversee response actions to protect human health and the...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $317,000 CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grant (CFDA 66.817) to the Squaxin Island Tribe to enhance the capacity of the Tribe's brownfields response program. The funding will support the Tribe in conducting timely surveys and inventories of brownfield sites, providing oversight and enforcement authorities to ensure response actions protect human health and the environment, facilitating public involvement, approving...
This Project Grant award, valued at $250,000.00, was provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through the Superfund State, Political Subdivision, and Indian Tribe Site-Specific Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.802). The purpose of the grant is to fund the participation of the Makah Indian Tribe in activities related to the review of remedial investigation and feasibility studies, proposed plans, and records of decision at the Warmhouse Beach Dump Superfund site, where the EPA...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $125,000 to the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe under the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) federal Project Grant for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. The funding will enhance the Tribe's capacity to inventory, assess, and remediate brownfield sites on its lands in accordance with the objectives of EPA's CERCLA Section 128(a) program. Key activities to be performed by the Tribe include timely surveying and...
The Environmental Protection Agency awarded a $659,055 Project Grant to the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska under the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) program. The Tribe will use the funding to enhance its brownfields response program capacity and conduct planning, assessment, and cleanup activities at contaminated sites on its traditional lands through December 2025. Specifically, the Tribe will perform timely inventories and surveys of brownfield properties, provide public...