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) awarded a $475,000 Formula Grant under the Air Pollution Control Program Support (CFDA 66.001) to the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) to support air quality monitoring and regulation on the Umatilla Reservation. The grant funding will enable CTUIR to implement activities under the Section 105 program, including assisting the EPA with the Federal Air Rules for Reservations (FARR), collecting air monitoring data,...
This $550,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Federal Grant Program 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act will fund the Ute Indian Tribe's expansion and enhancement of their air monitoring activities. The grant will enable the Tribe to purchase, install, and operate a new multipollutant monitoring station in Fort Duchesne, Utah to measure fine...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the CFDA 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act to the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. The funding will support the expansion and enhancement of the tribe's air monitoring activities, including: Purchasing and installing a pre-made temporary shelter and a new nitrogen oxides (NOx) monitor at the Swinomish Village...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program provides $300,000 in funding to the Hoopa Valley Tribe to expand and enhance their air monitoring activities. Specifically, the award will be used to upgrade and replace existing air monitors, purchase new air monitoring equipment, and establish a new multi-pollutant...
This $145,000 federal Project Grant award to the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe was provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program. The funding will support the expansion and enhancement of the tribe's air monitoring activities across the Ute Mountain Reservation. Specifically, the grant will enable the tribe to contract support for the...
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 grant will fund the expansion and enhancement of the tribe's air monitoring activities, including upgrading existing monitoring sites to measure nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide, purchasing equipment to support the...
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...
This $299,346 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program will fund the Yurok Tribe's efforts to expand and enhance their air monitoring activities. Key project activities include replacing air monitors to improve particulate matter characterization, providing training to personnel on air quality monitoring, and...
This $320,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the CFDA 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program will support the Southern Ute Indian Tribe's Air Quality Division in expanding and enhancing their air monitoring activities. The award will fund the purchase, installation, and operation of new equipment to measure fine particulate matter, ozone, nitric...