Big Horn Regional Joint Powers Board

Big Horn Regional Joint Powers Board is a Wyoming state government entity that acts as a prime recipient of federal grants for rural water infrastructure and waste disposal services, with secondary exposure as a sub-recipient on state-led water transmission projects. The organization operates exclusively in the grant space — it holds no federal contracts and no contract IDVs — and competes full-and-open without set-aside designations.

Big Horn Regional Joint Powers Board serves two distinct federal customers across five awards spanning nineteen years. The Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service accounts for three awards, while the Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 accounts for two; the two customer agencies split the portfolio evenly by count. The organization's largest named award is an $850,000 project grant from USDA's Rural Utilities Service under the Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities program (CFDA 10.760), issued February 8, 2022, which supported the provision of water and waste disposal services for financially needy communities in Wyoming through February 8, 2023. In its sub-recipient role, Big Horn Regional Joint Powers Board appears on two awards to the State of Wyoming Office of Statelands, both dated March 30, 2026, focused on fixing transmission deficiencies in the system east and south of Worland to mitigate future transmission issues for Hot Springs County.

Activity is sparse and episodic: one award in 2007, one in 2020, one in 2022, and two in 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all five awards total $32.9 million. The organization's federal footprint is regionally concentrated on Wyoming rural water infrastructure — no multistate or national programs are evident in the award history.