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...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Squaxin Island Tribe a $100,000 Project Grant under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program (CFDA 66.817). The primary objectives of this grant are to (1) establish or enhance the four statutory elements of an effective state or tribal response program, (2) maintain and update a public record of brownfield sites, and (3) conduct a limited number of brownfield site assessments or cleanups to help strengthen the Tribe's...
This $100,000 project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 supports the Squaxin Island Tribe's Tribal Response Program. The program will survey and inventory brownfield sites on tribal lands, provide oversight and enforcement of response actions to protect human health and the environment, and ensure meaningful public involvement in the cleanup process. The Tribe will have mechanisms to approve cleanup plans and verify complete responses. The funding will assist with...
This federal Project Grant award of $100,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) is intended to enhance the capacity of the Squaxin Island Tribe's Brownfields Response Program. The primary activities under this award include conducting timely surveys and inventories of brownfield sites within the Squaxin Island Reservation and usual and accustomed area, maintaining and enhancing a GIS web map...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $144,750 Project Grant to the Makah Indian Tribe under the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA #66.817) program. The Tribe will use the funding from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023 to enhance its Brownfields response program and perform planning, assessment, and cleanup activities at contaminated sites. Specifically, the Makah Indian Tribe will conduct timely surveys and inventories of brownfield properties, provide oversight...
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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska a $100,000 Project Grant under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program (CFDA 66.817). This grant will enhance the tribe's capacity to establish or improve the four statutory elements of an effective brownfields response program, as specified in CERCLA Section 128(a)(2). Key activities include timely surveying and inventorying of brownfields sites, providing oversight and enforcement...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $115,378 CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grant (CFDA 66.817) to the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska. The grant period runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. The primary objectives of this grant are to: (1) establish or enhance the four statutory elements of an effective tribal response program, (2) maintain and update a public record of brownfield sites, and (3) conduct brownfield site assessments or cleanups to...
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...