The State Of Ohio Office Of Budget And Management

The State Of Ohio Office Of Budget And Management Office Of Fiscal Administration, doing business as Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, is a U.S. government entity that acts as a federal grant recipient providing environmental protection, monitoring, and regulatory services to federal agencies and serving as the pass-through administrator of major EPA capitalization grants for water and drinking water infrastructure across Ohio.

Ohio EPA's federal footprint is almost entirely grant-based—455 of 456 recent awards are prime grants rather than contracts or subcontracts. The agency operates as a direct recipient of federal environmental grants from the Environmental Protection Agency (primarily EPA Region 5), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of Energy, the Department of the Army, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The portfolio carries combined potential value of $284 thousand across 456 awards, but obligated dollars total $4.96 billion—a ratio reflecting the heavy capitalization-grant structure in which Ohio EPA receives large multiyear funding vehicles that then deploy as loans or pass-throughs to subrecipients.

Ohio EPA's capability set encompasses environmental compliance monitoring and site assessment services delivered on a small scale to NASA Glenn Research Center, coupled with major environmental administration and management programs funded through federal grants. Representative contract work includes $15 thousand, $19.8 thousand, and $23.2 thousand firm fixed-price purchase orders from NASA Glenn Research Center in 2026, 2025, and 2024 respectively for environmental protection services, monitoring, and regulatory compliance at the Cleveland facility. At the grant scale, Ohio EPA serves as recipient and administrator for drinking water state revolving fund capitalization grants exceeding $290 million (CFDA 66.468), clean water state revolving fund grants exceeding $150 million (CFDA 66.458), and formula grants supporting air quality monitoring, hazardous waste management, water quality planning, and brownfields assessment across the state. Recent examples include a $1.048 million EPA Region 5 grant for PM2.5 ambient air quality monitoring operations (CFDA 66.034), a $7.176 million grant for hazardous waste management state program support (CFDA 66.801), and a $257.651 thousand grant for Superfund site oversight at 46 Ohio sites (CFDA 66.802).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to EPA and EPA Region 5, which account for 92% of awards across 397 of 456 total awards. NASA Glenn Research Center, while representing the largest single customer by potential value at $133 thousand, delivers only eight small purchase orders. The recompete cliff shows 47 awards completing in the next 24 months, representing significant renewal exposure across the state grant portfolio.

Ohio EPA's grants operate in two modes: direct program implementation (such as hazardous waste permitting, Superfund site assessment, and air monitoring conducted by Ohio EPA staff) and pass-through administration (such as the state revolving funds and nonpoint source implementation grants, where Ohio EPA distributes capitalization funds or subawards to municipalities, public water systems, local air agencies, and soil and water conservation districts). The agency is not a federal contractor; it is a state agency operating as a federal grant recipient and administrator, with no role in federal contract vehicles, GWACs, BPAs, or set-aside categories.