The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $171,748 CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grant (CFDA 66.817) to the Native Village of Port Heiden to enhance the tribe's brownfields response program. The funding will enable the tribe to conduct site assessments, facilitate cleanup activities, and support community engagement for brownfields sites throughout their traditional lands. Key objectives include maintaining a public inventory of brownfields sites,...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Sitka Tribe of Alaska a $127,652 CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grant (CFDA 66.817) to enhance the tribe's brownfields response program. The funding will be used to perform a range of activities, including timely surveying and inventorying of brownfield sites, providing oversight and enforcement authorities, ensuring public involvement, and approving cleanup plans and verifying complete responses. The primary...
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 $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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $171,660 Project Grant under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) to the Native Village of Eklutna (NVE) in Alaska. The grant's primary objectives are to enhance NVE's brownfields response program by: 1) conducting site inventories and assessments, 2) developing oversight and enforcement mechanisms, 3) ensuring public involvement, and 4) facilitating the cleanup and reuse of contaminated...
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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $290,000 CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grant (CFDA 66.817) to the Penobscot Indian Nation. The purpose of this one-year grant, with an award date of October 1, 2024 and a completion date of September 30, 2025, is to enhance the tribe's brownfields response program. Key activities include conducting site inventories, providing public involvement, overseeing cleanup plans, and assessing and remediating two...
This $115,000 federal Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program supports the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska in enhancing their brownfields response program. The funding will enable the tribal government to survey and inventory brownfields sites, provide public involvement, and oversee the assessment and cleanup of contaminated properties within their lands. This will help...
The Environmental Protection Agency awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the Metlakatla Indian Community under the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA #66.817). The funding will support the Community's Brownfields Response Program to enhance its capacity to meet the requirements of CERCLA Section 128(a). Specifically, activities will include timely surveying and inventorying of brownfield sites on the Annette Islands Reserve, oversight and enforcement of response actions to protect...
This $120,504 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 supports the Sitka Tribe of Alaska'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 approval and verification of cleanup plans. Deliverables include quarterly reports, meeting notes, an inventory of sites, public...