Al Department Environmental Management

The Alabama Department of Environmental Management Permits & Services - Fiscal Branch Division is a U.S. state government entity operating as a child agency under the Alabama Department of Public Health, functioning as a recipient of federal grants (and in limited cases, a contractor) rather than a prime contractor competing for federal procurement. The division acts as the designated recipient for federal environmental and water infrastructure financing programs from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior, managing capitalization grants, state revolving funds, and cooperative agreements focused on water quality, drinking water, air quality monitoring, hazardous waste remediation, and environmental compliance across Alabama.

ADEM Permits & Services - Fiscal Branch delivers environmental permitting and compliance administration, drinking water and clean water state revolving fund (DWSRF and CWSRF) capitalization and loan management, hazardous waste site assessment and remediation coordination, air quality monitoring network operation and data collection, and regulatory program development including underground storage tank oversight, superfund site response support, and emerging contaminant (particularly PFAS) response planning. Recent prime grant awards include a $19.257 million Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization grant from EPA Region 4 (CFDA 66.468, awarded October 1, 2025), a $25.401 million Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Small and Underserved Communities Emerging Contaminants Grant (CFDA 66.442, awarded October 1, 2025) for PFAS remediation and drinking water access, and a $17.74 million Clean Water State Revolving Fund capitalization grant (CFDA 66.458, awarded October 1, 2025). The division also received a $770,452 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 12.113) from the Army Corps of Engineers Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity (July 1, 2026) for reimbursement of technical services supporting Department of Defense Environmental Restoration Program activities at Alabama DoD installations.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to federal environmental grantors. EPA and EPA Region 4 together account for 81% of awards across 221 named grant actions; the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (all regions combined) placed 48 awards concentrated in boating infrastructure and clean vessel programs. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Glenn Research Center together represent the largest potential-value concentration at $3.9 million across 14 awards, reflecting a small contract footprint for site environmental compliance at NASA facilities. ADEM sits on one parent vehicle: an indefinite delivery contract (DAAH03-03-D-0007) with the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Redstone Arsenal, with 27 task orders carrying $5 thousand in combined potential value—a nominal presence in the federal contracting space.

Activity is grant-driven and state-focused. The division received 354 total awards (99% as prime recipient) from fiscal 1996 through July 2026, with annual counts fluctuating between 13 and 28 grants per year over the past five years. Combined potential value is $4.1 million, but combined obligated dollars total $1.77 billion (a 43,000% ratio indicating that the source's "potential value" field significantly undercounts federal environmental financing flowing through revolving loan fund capitalization grants). Awards in the next 24 months total 28 actions with $1.1 million stated potential value, presenting modest recompete exposure. Work is performed across Alabama with administrative oversight and grant management at the Montgomery headquarters.

ADEM Permits & Services holds sub-recipient status on four federal grant sub-awards from the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, focused on coastal and watershed administration (awarded December 2025, December 2024, December 2023, and April 2023). The division does not maintain a significant federal prime contracting footprint; its federal role is as the state's primary grant recipient and environmental compliance administrator for EPA and interior-funded programs supporting water infrastructure, hazardous waste response, and environmental monitoring statewide.