New Mexico Environment Department

New Mexico Environment Department, a state government agency under the U.S. state government business category, acts as a federal grant recipient serving the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Labor, and Department of Health and Human Services in implementation of environmental protection, occupational safety, and public health programs across New Mexico. The department operates 100% as a grant recipient with no subcontractor role; all 435 recent awards are prime recipient grants rather than sub-awards.

The department's federal footprint centers on environmental compliance and regulatory administration. NMED receives the largest concentration of awards from EPA and EPA Region 6 — together accounting for approximately 73% of recent awards — with substantial additional funding streams from OSHA (occupational safety and health consultation and state plan administration, 27 awards), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (occupational safety and health statistics collection, 13 awards), and FDA (human food inspections and Mammography Quality Standards Act inspections). The top customer by dollar value is FDA, which provided 10 awards totaling $2.1 million in combined potential value, including a $173,957.65 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded September 30, 2026, for human food inspections in New Mexico running through September 29, 2031, and a prior $664,471.50 contract for MQSA inspections running through January 14, 2028.

NMED's primary capability portfolio spans water quality management, air quality monitoring, hazardous waste remediation and oversight, underground storage tank prevention and corrective action, wetland assessment and protection, and food safety regulatory inspection. Representative work includes EPA Region 6 awards for Clean Water State Revolving Fund capitalization grants (multiple awards totaling tens of millions for low-interest municipal water infrastructure financing), Brownfields assessment and cleanup cooperative agreements, Superfund site remedial action oversight and management assistance at National Priorities List sites including McGaffey and Main, Eagle Picher, Chevron Questa Mine, and Church Rock, and water quality monitoring and Total Maximum Daily Load development under Clean Water Act Section 106 funding. A $3 million four-year Cooperative Agreement under the EPA's Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program (CFDA 66.046) funds development of a comprehensive statewide climate action plan with tribal and disadvantaged community engagement. OSHA grants fund the state's occupational safety and health state plan (23(G) Formula Grants) and on-site consultation program (21(D) Cooperative Agreements) for small and medium employers.

Award activity has remained relatively stable year over year: 25 awards in 2022, 28 in 2023, 27 in 2024, 20 in 2025, and 4 in 2026 to date. Forty-three awards carrying $664 thousand in combined potential value are due for completion within the next twenty-four months, representing ongoing recompete and renewal opportunity across water quality, air quality, LUST prevention and corrective action, hazardous waste, and occupational safety programs. The department performs all work directly without sub-awards; no subcontractor footprint is present in the recent award record. NMED's federal customer base spans 27 agencies, with EPA dominating volume and the Food and Drug Administration and Bureau of Labor Statistics anchoring secondary customer relationships focused on food safety and workplace statistics collection respectively. All awards are formula grants, cooperative agreements, or project grants rather than competitive procurements, reflecting NMED's statutory role as the state environmental and occupational safety administrative agency implementing federal programs delegated under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, RCRA, CERCLA, SDWA, OSHA, and related federal environmental statutes.