Arizona Department Of Environmental Quality Dba: Adeq

Arizona Department Of Environmental Quality Dba: Adeq is a U.S. state government entity that acts as a federal grant recipient, delivering environmental permitting, regulatory compliance, monitoring, and remediation services to federal agencies and as a pass-through grantor to local partners. The agency operates primarily in a recipient role on federal grants (97% prime awards) rather than as a traditional contractor, with no participation in federal contract vehicles.

Adeq's service portfolio centers on environmental licensing and permitting (particularly Arizona Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and Aquifer Protection permits), water quality monitoring and assessment, air quality monitoring and analysis, hazardous waste oversight, brownfields assessment and remediation, underground storage tank compliance programs, and abandoned mine remediation. Representative grant work includes a $1.78 million EPA Region 9 Leaking Underground Storage Tank Corrective Action Program award (CFDA 66.805) through June 2030 supporting investigation, assessment, and remediation of petroleum releases across Arizona; a $2.21 million EPA Region 9 Nonpoint Source Implementation Grant (CFDA 66.460) through September 2030 funding abandoned mine remediation and E. coli load reduction in impaired watersheds; and a $375 thousand USDA Forest Service Good Neighbor Authority cooperative agreement (CFDA 10.691) through March 2031 for engineering design and biological assessment for mine waste remediation at abandoned European and Ventura mines on federal National Forest System lands. Adeq also receives federal contract purchase orders for environmental permitting services—for example, a $44.6 thousand sole-source labor-hour purchase order from the Bureau of Reclamation (awarded December 2025) for AZPDES permit renewal services through September 2026, and a $62.5 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the Bureau of Reclamation covering annual AZPDES and Aquifer Protection permit fees for fiscal years 2025 through 2029.

Customer concentration reflects strong EPA Region 9 dominance: 38 awards across the source data, with the International Boundary and Water Commission U.S.-Mexico (5 awards, $153 thousand combined potential value), Bureau of Reclamation (4 awards, $156 thousand combined potential value), and Department of the Interior Interior Business Center (3 awards) rounding out the active set. The top five customers account for 84% of recent awards. Adeq's role is nearly entirely as a direct federal grant recipient; only two sub-awards appear in the source (both subawards to Adeq from Arizona Department of Health Services for environmental public health tracking support in 2024 and 2026).

Activity has fluctuated across recent years—eight awards in 2022, twelve in 2023, sixteen in 2024, twelve in 2025—with ten awards (combined potential value $128 thousand) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore facing renewal or recompete. The combined potential value across the 63 prime and sub awards in the source data totals $358 thousand, though the source records $193 million in combined dollars obligated, indicating substantial invoicing against these awards. Environmental licensing and permitting work dominates the service classification, with secondary focus on hazardous waste and water quality management services. Adeq functions as the authoritative state environmental regulator for Arizona and serves federal operations within the state's jurisdiction on a sole-source basis for many permits and regulatory services.