The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe received a $259,474 Formula Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 under the Water Pollution Control State, Interstate, and Tribal Program Support federal grant program (CFDA 66.419). The grant will fund the Tribe's program to maintain, protect, and improve water quality on tribal lands through September 30, 2023. Key activities to be undertaken with the funding include environmental education and outreach on the Standing Rock...
This formula grant award of $248,711 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 provides funding to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe under the EPA's Water Pollution Control State, Interstate, and Tribal Program Support grant program (CFDA #66.419). The award supports the Tribe's program to maintain, protect, and improve water quality within the Standing Rock Reservation through Oct. 1, 2021-Sept. 30, 2022. Key deliverables include quarterly progress reports, appropriate management of...
This $954,000 project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 provides funding to the South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR) to support the state's underground storage tank (UST) program from October 2021 through September 2023. The grant aims to help DANR achieve the objectives of the EPA's UST Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA #66.804), including encouraging proper operation and maintenance of underground storage tanks,...
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will receive $400,000 through a three-year Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program and Related Assistance (CFDA 66.608) to enhance tribal data management capabilities. The Tribe will develop a mobile application for field staff to enter water quality measurements offline and provide training resources to build individual tribal programs' capacity for electronic data collection,...
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe received a $371,750 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program (CFDA 66.046). This four-year award will fund the development of a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) and Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Key activities include conducting a GHG inventory, quantifying emissions reduction...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Federal Grant Program for Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance (CFDA 66.804) to the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council (ENIPC), a federally recognized tribal government organization in New Mexico. The grant provides funding for ENIPC's Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) prevention program, which includes activities such as inspections, operator training,...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $109,444 Project Grant under the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA 66.804) to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) of the Flathead Reservation. The grant provides funding to support CSKT's Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) prevention program, which includes leak detection, prevention, and related enforcement activities. Key objectives of the program are to encourage UST...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 awarded an $150,000 Project Grant to the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council Inc. under the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA #66.804). The grant continues the Council's program to manage underground storage tanks on tribal lands in New Mexico through September 2022. Key deliverables include compliance assistance to 21 New Mexico tribes and pueblos, as well as UST facility owners and operators. The...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 awarded the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality a $916,666 Project Grant under the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA #66.804). The two-year grant will support North Dakota's underground storage tank program by funding activities to encourage proper operation and maintenance of underground storage tanks, ensure tank monitoring compliance with regulations, and further develop the state...
This two-year, $605,000 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 supports the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources' (DENR) Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) program. The funding will allow DENR to develop and implement effective corrective actions to address petroleum releases from underground storage tanks. Specifically, DENR will use the funding to initiate and complete cleanups at leaking tank sites, with a focus on reducing the...