The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians $132,617 under the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) Project Grant for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. The funding will enhance the Tribe's capacity to establish or enhance the four statutory elements of an effective response program as outlined in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) Section...
The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians received a $127,428 project grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 under the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) program. The funding will support the tribe's brownfields response program through September 2022, including surveying and inventorying brownfield sites on tribal lands, as well as oversight, enforcement, and public involvement activities to ensure protective cleanup responses. The...
This $132,617 Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program (CFDA 66.817) will enable the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians to expand and enhance their tribal brownfields response program. Key activities include conducting site surveys and inventories, providing public engagement, and overseeing the assessment and cleanup of brownfields sites across the tribal reservation. The grant aims...
This $128,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) aims to enhance the capacity of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians' brownfields response program. The primary objectives 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)...
The Environmental Protection Agency's Region 5 awarded the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency a $731,893 Project Grant under the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) program. The grant will fund the Agency's brownfields response program activities from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. Specifically, the Agency will conduct a timely survey and inventory of brownfield sites, provide oversight and enforcement of response actions to protect human health and the environment,...
The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Tribe received a $179,695 Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 under the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) to continue building elements of an effective tribal response program and assist in remediating, redeveloping, and reusing potentially hazardous and contaminated brownfield sites throughout the Leech Lake Reservation. Funding will also support expanding public education and outreach of the Tribe's...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $120,000 CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grant (CFDA 66.817) to the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe (FSST) on October 1, 2024. The purpose of this one-year project grant is to enhance FSST's capacity to establish and maintain an effective brownfields response program, as specified under the statutory elements of CERCLA Section 128(a). Key activities include conducting site inventories, providing public involvement, and...
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency was awarded $731,893 under the Environmental Protection Agency Region 5's State and Tribal Response Program Grants to support Minnesota's brownfield response program through December 2022. The award will fund survey and inventory of brownfield sites, oversight and enforcement of response actions to protect human health and the environment, public involvement resources, and approval and verification of cleanup plans. The objective is to assist in remediating...
This Project Grant award of $219,042.00 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 under the Non-State Member Support for the Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan program (CFDA 66.487) provides funding to the Fond du Lac Reservation to support the implementation of its Nutrient Reduction Strategy. The key products and services to be delivered include: Conducting ongoing nutrient monitoring and assessments for reservation waters to establish numeric nutrient criteria for wild rice waters....
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...