To enhance IT and data management capabilities that facilitate the electronic collection, reporting, exchange, sharing and integration of the full range of data that informs the business of…

The Quileute Indian Tribe of the Quileute Indian Reservation received a $271,091 Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Administration and Resource Management under the Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program (CFDA 66.608). The award, effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028, funds the enhancement and modernization of the tribe's water quality data management system to support improved environmental decision-making and regulatory compliance.

The primary products and services delivered under this award include: (1) enhanced data management, analysis, and assessment capabilities within the tribe's existing water quality data management system; (2) improved graphing and visualization functionality to produce more aesthetically refined and programmatically useful data presentations; and (3) expanded software functionality to accommodate multiple environmental data types, including habitat and fisheries data, enabling integrated analysis and ecosystem integrity assessments across the Quillayute Basin. These improvements will enable the tribe's Natural Resources Department to streamline data reporting workflows, facilitate inter-departmental data correlations, and provide defensible environmental data to the EPA and stakeholders for potential stream remediation initiatives. No sub-awards are included in this assistance agreement.

Description

This project by the quileute tribe of the quileute reservation proposes to improve data management, analysis, and assessment capabilities of its water quality data management system; enhance the graphing capabilities in their water quality data management system in specific, key ways to make the graphs more aesthetically pleasing and to better support the needs of tribal programs; and enhance the software's capability to account for varying environmental data types, including but not limited to habitat and fisheries, for data management and analysis. This project is expected to benefit the tribe and its natural resources department by improving data management tools, creating a more streamlined approach to data reporting, and providing them with the ability to house various environmental data types collected to conduct correlations and understand ecosystem integrity in the quillayute basin. Expected environmental results include easier access to defensible data to EPA and stakeholders so the tribe can pursue action if needed to remediate streams based on data collected and analyzed.