The U.S. 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 to enhance the tribe's brownfields response program. The grant funding will support the tribe's activities to survey and inventory brownfields sites, provide oversight and enforcement authorities, ensure public involvement, and establish mechanisms for approving and verifying cleanup plans. The goal is to assist in...
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...
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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has 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 1-year award is to enhance the Tlingit and Haida Tribes' capacity to establish and maintain an effective brownfields response program on their lands. Key activities include conducting site surveys and inventories, providing public...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 awarded the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska a $100,000 Project Grant under the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) to support the tribe's Brownfield response program from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The grant funding will allow the tribe to conduct timely surveys and inventories of Brownfield sites on tribal lands, provide oversight and enforcement of response actions to ensure the protection of human health and the...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $133,635 project grant under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) to the Nez Perce Tribe. The grant will fund the Tribe's efforts to expand public education and outreach, and build a tribal response program to coordinate the assessment, cleanup, and revitalization of brownfield sites throughout the Nez Perce Reservation. Key activities include conducting site inventories, establishing...
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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Squaxin Island Tribe a $100,000 CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grant to enhance the Tribe's brownfields response program. The primary objectives 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 with completed or planned response actions; and (3) conduct a limited number of brownfield site...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $144,750 Project Grant to the Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817). The purpose of this grant is to enhance the Makah Tribe's capacity to establish and maintain an effective brownfields response program. Key activities include surveying and inventorying brownfield sites, providing oversight and enforcement authorities, ensuring public...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 awarded a $100,000 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 and conduct planning, assessment, and cleanup activities at brownfield sites within its traditional lands. Key deliverables include timely surveying and inventorying of brownfield properties, oversight and enforcement of response...