Alaska native tribal health consortium (ANTHC) will build environmental program capacity for their staff so that they can provide stellar service to alaska tribes statewide in the areas of…

Alaska native tribal health consortium (ANTHC) will build environmental program capacity for their staff so that they can provide stellar service to alaska tribes statewide in the areas of administrative and technical capacity in FY25 and FY26. Consortium efforts are grouped in 5 different focus areas for the purposes of this description: (1). Hiring, training, and oversight for existing and new ANTHC staff who will be tasked with a diverse set of GAP outputs related to working closely with alaska tribes statewide on environmental planning activities; (2). A specific focus on GAP resiliency and outreach with alaska tribes will tailor program development and assistance thru survey, assessment, and development of strategies that support capacity development and long-term sustainability of GAP programs in alaska. A statewide assessment will shed light on systemic barriers, internal and external challenges tribes are experiencing in maintaining their GAP programs. The assessment will be provided to all GAP and non-GAP tribes. Results of the assessment will be summarized and barriers tribes have experienced in sustaining environmental programs in alaska will be identified; (3). Development of virtual planning manuals and other tools; (4). Comprehensive and targeted administrative, fiscal, and programmatic technical assistance, training and support. This includes an FY23 statewide GAP training, several rural village site visits which include one-on-one training with tribal consortia mentors, and the development of a GAP support hotline for responding to and documenting GAP administrative issues ; and (5). Administrative, solid waste and climate resilience subawards and project support. This includes development of sub-award agreements and oversight of awardee performance. ANTHC staff will provide guidance and technical assistance to awardees in documenting their project from beginning to end, and will share project results with other tribes through a presentation during the annual alaska tribal conference on environmental management or other large tribal conference. As this is a cooperative agreement, EPA will have substantial involvement.activities:workplan activities will involve administrative and technical capacity building for consortium staff, so that they can provide stellar service to alaska tribes statewide to include one-on-one igap technical assistance for etep development and other planning. Several trainings will be provided including statewide GAP training and 7 generations training, igap training, and alaska tribal environmental conference planning efforts. A statewide assessment activity will summarize barriers tribes have experienced in sustaining environmental programs in alaska and will contribute to solutions by developing a tribal certification program in partnership with alaska pacific university. Administrative, climate and solid waste project sub-awards will be issued and ANTHC will oversee the performance of the awardees.subrecipient:the purpose of subawards is to carry out a statewide climate, resilience, and solid waste subaward program in alaska for remote tribal communities. Technical assistance to tribes for completing local community projects will be among the roles of ANTHC staff.outcomes:the alaska native tribal health consortium and the EPA expect environmental program capacity build thru this cooperative agreement to expand by engaging over 200 tribal communities across alaska. Outcomes will involve administrative management improvements as well as technical environmental capacity building among diverse geographic regions of alaska. Key points of contact at each tribe will be able to increase the tribes' resiliency thru training and take actionable actions, the actions will lead to positive environmental outcomes that will sustain strong tribal environmental programs, and healthy ecosystems. The consortium will issue critical solid waste subawards that will enable rural alaskan communi