The primary objectives of EPA's cercla section 128(a) state and tribal response program grants are to provide financial support to states, US territories, and tribal nations to (1) establish or…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $100,000 CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grant to the Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians, a federally recognized tribal government located in Ukiah, California. The purpose of this Project Grant is to enhance the capacity of Guidiville's Brownfields Response Program to conduct site assessments, oversee cleanups, and provide environmental outreach and education. Key activities include surveying and inventorying brownfield sites, ensuring oversight and enforcement of response actions, promoting public involvement, and approving cleanup plans. The grant aims to help Guidiville remediate and reuse brownfield sites throughout the state, restore lands environmentally, and expand public outreach on their voluntary cleanup program, particularly to small and disadvantaged communities. The grant period is from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025.

The primary objectives of EPA's cercla section 128(a) state and tribal response program grants are to provide financial support to states, US territories, and tribal nations to (1) establish or enhance the four statutory elements of an effective state or tribal response program, as specified in cercla section 128(a)(2), (2) maintain and update, at least annually, a public record of sites, pursuant to cercla 128(b), that includes the name and location of sites at which response actions have been completed during the previous year and the name and location of sites at which response actions are planned to be addressed in the next year, and (3) conduct a limited number of brownfield site assessments or cleanups that will help establish or enhance the state or tribal nation's response program. The purpose of this award is to enhance the capacity of guidiville's brownfields response program to meet the section 128(a) elements. Guidiville will oversee and perform planning, assessment, cleanup of brownfields sites throughout the state, and conduct environmental outreach. This assistance agreement provides full funding in the amount of $100,000. See terms and conditions.activities: guidiville will perform the following activities: timely survey and inventory of brownfield sites, which are properties whose expansion, redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by the presence of hazardous substances. IT also includes oversight and enforcement authorities to ensure that response actions protect human health and the environment; resources to provide meaningful public involvement; mechanisms for approval of cleanup plans, and verification of complete responses. The objective of this project is to assist in remediating and reusing brownfields sites throughout the state, restore lands environmentally, and conduct environmental outreach. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:guidiville will expand public education and outreach of the guidiville voluntary cleanup program to small and disadvantaged communities, assess multiple sites through the state targeted brownfield assessment program, oversee the cleanup of one or more sites, conduct environmental outreach, and enhance the capacity of the guidiville brownfields program.