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...
This $318,000 Project Grant, awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817), is to enhance the capacity of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation's Brownfields Response Program. The funding will support the tribe's efforts to inventory and assess brownfield sites, develop oversight and enforcement authorities, ensure public involvement, and implement cleanup plans on contaminated...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 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 fund the Tribal Response Program, which will conduct timely surveys and inventories of brownfield sites on tribal lands. The program will provide oversight and enforcement to ensure response actions at these sites protect human health and the environment. It will also offer...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $317,000 CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grant (CFDA 66.817) to the Squaxin Island Tribe to enhance the capacity of the Tribe's brownfields response program. The funding will support the Tribe in conducting timely surveys and inventories of brownfield sites, providing oversight and enforcement authorities to ensure response actions protect human health and the environment, facilitating public involvement, approving...
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...
This $115,000 federal Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program supports the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska in enhancing their brownfields response program. The funding will enable the tribal government to survey and inventory brownfields sites, provide public involvement, and oversee the assessment and cleanup of contaminated properties within their lands. This will help...
The EPA Region 10 awarded a $319,410 CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grant to the Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. The purpose of this 1-year project grant is to enhance the tribe's brownfields response program by funding activities to survey and inventory brownfield sites, provide oversight and enforcement authorities, ensure public involvement, and approve cleanup plans. The grant will enable the tribe to assess and prepare for the cleanup of...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Nez Perce Tribe a $510,410 Project Grant under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) to enhance the tribe's brownfields response program. The funding will enable the Nez Perce Tribe to conduct a timely survey and inventory of brownfield sites, provide oversight and enforcement authorities, ensure response actions protect human health and the environment, facilitate meaningful public involvement,...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Squaxin Island Tribe a $100,000 Project Grant under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program (CFDA 66.817). The primary objectives of this grant are to (1) establish or enhance the four statutory elements of an effective state or tribal response program, (2) maintain and update a public record of brownfield sites, and (3) conduct a limited number of brownfield site assessments or cleanups to help strengthen the Tribe's...
This $224,092 federal Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) will enhance the capacity of the Hoopa Valley Tribe's (HVT) brownfields response program. HVT will use the funding to conduct site assessments, oversight, and cleanup of brownfield sites throughout the tribal lands. The grant will also support public education, outreach, and expansion of HVT's voluntary cleanup program, focusing on...