The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $493,802 Project Grant to the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program. The purpose of this grant is to conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants in the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation communities, which face environmental and health disparities due to pollution and the COVID-19...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $206,511 Project Grant under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program to the Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Tribe. The grant funds will be used to upgrade air monitors at existing monitoring sites, build program capacity through training, and enhance community engagement and knowledge of the air quality program. Specifically, the...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $137,237 Project Grant under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" (CFDA 66.034) program to the White Mountain Apache Tribe. The grant funding will be used to expand and enhance the tribe's air monitoring activities, including initiating and expanding air monitoring operations in the Cibecue community, preparing materials for an indoor air...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Federal Grant Program 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act to the Hoopa Valley Tribe. The grant funds will be used to expand and enhance the tribe's air monitoring activities. Specifically, the grant will support upgrading air monitors at existing monitoring sites, purchasing equipment to support the air...
This $150,980 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program will fund the upgrade and enhancement of the Bishop Paiute Tribe's air monitoring infrastructure and activities. Specifically, the tribe will replace their aging PM10 air monitor and weather station, perform regular maintenance, and make improvements to...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $285,275 project grant under the 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act federal grant program to the La Posta Band of Mission Indians. The grant will fund the expansion and enhancement of the tribe's air monitoring activities, including upgrading monitors at existing sites, purchasing equipment to support the air monitoring program, and...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 awarded a $120,000 Project Grant to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program (CFDA 66.034). The purpose of the award is to advance enhanced monitoring of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and other national ambient air quality standards pollutants in rural Alaska communities facing disproportionate exposure and...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 awarded a $406,482 Project Grant to The Keya Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization, under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program (CFDA 66.034). The funding will be used to conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants, including particulate matter (PM2.5) and mercury vapor, in the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal communities in South Dakota over a...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program, will fund the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Tribal Administration Division to expand and enhance their air monitoring activities. The $300,000 grant will enable the tribe to purchase ambient air monitoring equipment for an existing monitoring site,...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant to the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska under the 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program. The grant funding will be used by the Ponca Tribe to expand and enhance their air monitoring activities. Specifically, the tribe will purchase and deploy six multipollutant air sensors to monitor particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide,...