Kansas State University will receive $400,000 through September 2025 from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program to develop data management systems and facilitate environmental data sharing for five Native American tribes. The University aims to establish application programming interfaces to consolidate tribal environmental, land, and facility data from various existing systems into a centralized database. This database will integrate with analytical tools to enable internal tribal decision-making on environmental issues and selective external data sharing for funding applications and reporting. The project also seeks to provide proof of concept collaborations to enhance tribal capabilities for electronic collection, reporting, exchange, integration and use of environmental data to inform regulatory compliance and site prioritization efforts. No subawards are included. The funding is expected to result in improved access to national data, streamlined intra-tribal data sharing, and prioritized cleanup of contaminated lands and waters impacting public health in participating tribal communities.
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