San Juan Resource Conservation & Development Council

San Juan Resource Conservation & Development Council is a Colorado-based tax-exempt non-profit organization that acts as a recipient of federal environmental grants focused on air quality monitoring, water quality, and natural resource conservation in the Four Corners region. The Council operates as a prime grant recipient rather than a contract prime, working in partnership with academic and government agencies to deliver community-engaged environmental monitoring and capacity-building work.

The Council's recent footprint centers on environmental grant work with the EPA Region 8 and natural resource agencies. EPA Region 8 accounts for three awards (all nine identified prime grant recipients across five distinct agencies), with the most substantial being a $339,178 three-year project awarded July 15, 2025, under CFDA 66.034 (Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act), running through July 14, 2028. That project, titled Enhanced Ambient Air Monitoring in Colorado, establishes combined stationary and movable air quality sensors plus laboratory-grade air canister sampling for volatile organic compound speciation in Archuleta, La Plata, and San Juan Counties, with a community checkout program enabling residents to deploy particulate-matter sensors at locations of concern for one- to two-week periods. The Council partners with Fort Lewis College on air quality expertise while providing project management and community outreach capacity. The Council also holds grants from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, the Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service, and the Department of the Interior (Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Reclamation), with NAICS concentration in surveying and mapping services and scientific and technical consulting services.

The Council's award activity is episodic — two awards in 2024, two in 2025 — but actual obligations ($875 thousand cumulatively) substantially exceed the stated combined potential value ($46 thousand), indicating prior-year funding under older awards that carry substantial multi-year value. One award reaches completion inside the next twenty-four months and faces recompete. The Council operates as a sub-recipient on two Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment grants addressing nonpoint source water quality (awards dated April 28, 2025, and July 10, 2024).