Arkansas Division Of Environmental Quality

Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality, a U.S. state government entity headquartered in North Little Rock, Arkansas, acts as a federal grant recipient—not a contractor—delivering environmental compliance, air quality monitoring, water quality protection, hazardous waste management, and energy assistance programs to federal funding agencies across multiple EPA and Department of Interior programs. The division operates as a direct prime recipient on all 351 of its recent federal grants and has not pursued federal contract work; its only subrecipient relationship involves a wastewater treatment plant optimization subaward to the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission in October 2025.

The division's grant portfolio centers on environmental and energy administration work. Representative recent awards include a $517,653 EPA project grant (CFDA 66.034) effective April 2026 for fine particulate matter ambient air quality monitoring network operation and maintenance across Arkansas, with quality-assured PM2.5 data submission to the EPA's National Air Quality System database; a $66.47 million Department of Health and Human Services Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) formula grant (CFDA 93.568) effective October 2025 for direct utility bill payment assistance, energy crisis intervention, weatherization, and minor home energy repairs to eligible low-income households; a $1.072 billion EPA hazardous waste management program support grant (CFDA 66.801) for hazardous waste facility permitting, corrective action, compliance inspections, enforcement, computerized tracking, and pollution prevention outreach; a $2.561 billion EPA water quality protection grant (CFDA 66.419) for water quality data collection, lake assessments, aquatic habitat surveys, and quality assurance documentation; and an EPA Brownfields multipurpose assessment and cleanup cooperative agreement (CFDA 66.818) funding assessment-related activities on up to 15 Phase I environmental site assessments, 10 Phase II assessments, and cleanup planning across brownfield sites in Arkansas.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward EPA Region 6 (72 awards) and the Environmental Protection Agency broadly (138 awards), which together represent the vast majority of recent funding. The Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (35 awards) rounds out the top three funders; the division administers approved surface coal mining regulatory programs and abandoned mined lands reclamation under Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Title V and Title IV programs. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (18 awards) provides low-income energy and home energy assistance block and formula grants. The Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District accounts for 16 awards valued at $260 thousand combined, focused on environmental compliance support at military installations. The top five agencies account for 79 percent of recent award volume; EPA dominance in both award count and dollar value is decisive—EPA funding spans air quality, water quality, brownfield remediation, hazardous waste management, underground storage tank prevention, diesel emissions reduction, and climate pollution reduction programs.

The division operates without federal contract vehicles or parent IDIQs; all work is direct grant receipt from federal grant programs. Award activity has remained relatively stable, with 23 awards in 2023, 19 in 2022, 17 in 2024, and 16 in 2025. Twenty-three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represent potential recompete opportunities for successor funding. The division does not carry a federal contract footprint and does not serve as a subcontractor to private federal primes; it functions exclusively as a state agency recipient administering federal grant dollars for environmental and energy programs serving Arkansas residents and communities.