Solid waste management grants

The Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service awarded Norton Sound Health Corp $202,000 on September 15, 2025, under the Solid Waste Management Grants program (CFDA 10.762) to reduce or eliminate water resource pollution and improve planning and management of solid waste sites. Norton Sound Health Corp, a tribally owned tax-exempt non-profit Alaska Native Corporation doing business as Norton Sound Regional Hospital, is based in Nome, Alaska and serves approximately 10,000 Alaska Native residents across a 22,962 square-mile service area spanning 16 communities including Nome, Brevig Mission, Diomede, Elim, Gambell, Golovin, Koyuk, Savoonga, St. Michael, Shaktoolik, Shishmaref, Stebbins, Teller, Unalakleet, Wales, and White Mountain. The assistance type is a Project Grant. The period of performance runs through September 15, 2027. Place of performance encompasses Nome and the 15 surrounding villages across northwestern Alaska. The grant is one of multiple solid waste management awards Norton Sound Health Corp has received from USDA Rural Utilities Service; recent solid waste management grants to the organization total $224,000 and $176,000 for landfill evaluation and closure planning work.