1. US Environmental Protection Agency
Cathy Villa, Tribal Coordinator, Alaska Operations Office
BIA Providers Conference, November 2018

2. Our Mission
Our Mission
Our mission is to protect human health and the environment.
To accomplish this mission, we:
Develop and enforce regulations
When Congress writes an environmental law, we implement it by writing regulations. Often, we set national standards that states and tribes enforce through their own regulations. If they fail to meet the national standards, we can help them. We also enforce our regulations, and help companies understand the requirements.

3. Our Mission Sponsor partnerships
We don't protect the environment on our own.  We work with businesses, non-profit organizations, and state and local governments through dozens of partnerships. A few examples include conserving water and energy, minimizing greenhouse gases, re-using solid waste, and getting a handle on pesticide risks. In return, we share information and publicly recognize our partners.
Teach people about the environment
Protecting the environment is everyone's responsibility, and starts with understanding the issues. The basics include reducing how much energy and materials you use, reusing what you can and recycling the rest. There's a lot more about that to learn!

4. Our Mission Study environmental issues
At laboratories located throughout the nation, we identify and try to solve environmental problems. To learn even more, we share information with other countries, private sector organizations, academic institutions, and other agencies.
Give grants
Nearly half of our budget goes into grants to state environmental programs, non-profits, educational institutions, and others. They use the money for a wide variety of projects, from scientific studies that help us make decisions to community cleanups. Overall, grants help us achieve our overall mission: protect human health and the environment.

5. Our Mission
Grants
Every year, EPA awards more than $4 billion in funding for grants and other assistance agreements. From small non-profit organizations to large state governments, EPA works to help many visionary organizations achieve their environmental goals. With countless success stories over the years, EPA grants remain a chief tool to protect human health and the environment.
Publish information
Through written materials and this website, EPA informs the public about our activities.

6. Environmental Topics Air: pollution and your impact
indoor air issues like asbestos
air quality research and data
emissions, greenhouse gases

7. Overview Specific EPA Grant Programs
Multipurpose Grants to States and Tribes: This FY 2016 grant program provides funding to states and territories to support implementation of air and state-led climate activities and other state-defined high priority activities.  Funding is also available to tribes that have obtained authorization to develop water quality standards.
Fellowships and other student programs: Grants, fellowships, and research associateships
Air Grants and Funding: includes competitive grant funding announcements for projects and programs relating to air quality, transportation, climate change, indoor air and other related topics.

8. Overview
Brownfields Grants and Funding: existing facilities where redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived contamination.
Environmental Education Grants: projects to help the public make informed decisions that affect environmental quality.
Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program: provides funding to develop an Internet-based, secure network that supports the electronic collection, exchange, and integration of high-quality data.
Environmental Justice: provides financial assistance to support community- based organizations to collaborate and partner with other stakeholders (e.g., industry, government, academia, etc.) to develop and implement solutions that will significantly address environmental and/or public health issue(s) at the local level.

9. Overview
Pollution Prevention Grant Program: provides matching funds to state and tribal programs to support pollution prevention and to develop State-based programs.
Research Funding Opportunities: upcoming funding opportunities from NCER and the EPA STAR program
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR): competitively funds environmental technology research at small businesses.
Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) Grants and Funding: includes competitive grant funding announcements for projects and programs relating to Brownfields, Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse, Solid Waste management, resource conservation and recovery, Underground Storage Tanks and other related topics.

10. Region 10 Tribal Programs
Regional Tribal Operations Committee (RTOC)
The RTOC is a partnership between EPA Region 10 and elected tribal representatives to further tribal environmental objectives at the regional level, serve as a liaison between the EPA and tribes regarding information exchange, and provide assistance to the National Tribal Operations Committee. Funding for the RTOC is provided under a grant/cooperative agreement from EPA Region 10.
Other tribal funding
Tribal consultation
Tribal air resources
Tribal solid waste resources

11. Region 10 Tribal Programs
Clean Air Act Tribal Program Funding in Region 10
Portable Air Monitoring Device Loan Program for Region 10 Tribes
Alaska Tribal Air Toolkit 
(resources to help address common sources of air pollution in rural Alaska)
Tribal Solid Waste Resources
Roadmap for Funding Sustainable Solid Waste Programs in Rural Alaska
Solid Waste Program Budgeting for Alaska Tribal Communities
Building a Self-Sustaining Tribal Solid Waste Program in Region 10
Learn more about cleaning up, protecting, and preserving tribal lands

12. Region Indian Environmental General Assistance Program Act 1992 (GAP)
GAP is guided by the Guidance on the Award and Management of General Assistance Agreements for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia.
Legal provisions and policies applicable to EPA's GAP Guidance
Indian Environmental General Assistance Act of U.S.C. § 4368b: This Act was created to assist federally recognized tribes and intertribal consortia to plan, develop, and establish the capacity to implement programs administered by the EPA and to assist in the development and implementation of solid and hazardous waste programs in accordance with applicable provisions of law, such as the Solid Waste Disposal Act.

13. GAP
The U.S. EPA, Region 10, Tribal Trust and Assistance Unit, is announcing the funding opportunity for Indian E­nvironmental General Assistance Program (GAP) grant proposals from federally recognized tribal governments and intertribal consortia for work to be initiated in federal fiscal year (FY) 2020.
EPA provides GAP financial and technical assistance to tribal governments and intertribal consortia to assist tribes in planning, developing, and establishing the capacity to implement federal environmental programs administered by the EPA.
to assist in implementation of tribal solid and hazardous waste programs in accordance with applicable provisions of law, including the Solid Waste Disposal Act (commonly known as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, or RCRA).

14. GAP – Guiding Principles
Promote tribal self-governance by working closely with tribes to:
Accomplish tribal environmental program goals in EPA-Tribal Environmental Plans (ETEPs) that reflect federal environmental program areas of need to protect human health and the environment.
Support tribes’ development of strong core environmental program capacities for media-specific programs administered by EPA.
Foster tribes’ capacity to assume the authority to implement programs administered by EPA (e.g., Treatment as a State status or through Direct Implementation Tribal Cooperative Agreements).
Promote intergovernmental collaboration and cooperative federalism among EPA, tribes, states, and other partners, and focus EPA financial and technical assistance to protect human health and the environment.

15. GAP
Grantees may request funding between $75,000 and $128,000 for FY20, depending on program need and ability to perform the work. Applicants are not guaranteed to be funded at their requested amount.
Unmet needs, If funding is available, Region 10 may award up to $20,000 per tribe or consortium for GAP-eligible environmental priorities applicants choose to address
A tribe needs to have an Integrated Waste Management Plan in place, see EPA’s Developing Tribal Integrated Waste Management Plans. EPA.gov
Capacity building may include developing the appropriate administrative and legal infrastructure, establishing tribal technical capability, and planning and establishing an integrated tribal environmental management program

16. GAP Components Capacity Indicators Personnel
Long-Term and Intermediate Outcomes
Estimated Work Years
Estimated Cost Per Component
Commitments
Outputs and Deliverables
EPA Roles and Responsibilities
Joint Performance Evaluation Process

17. GAP Update or complete an EPA-Tribal Environmental Plan
In accordance with the GAP Guidance, EPA will work with each tribe to develop and implement an EPA-Tribal Environmental Plan, which sets the stage for stronger environmental and human health protection in tribal communities.
Tribes and EPA should jointly review the ETEP at least annually and update it as needed to reflect changes in environmental program priorities over time, adjust performance expectations, or account for changing environmental and administrative conditions. Tribes may include activities to update their ETEP in their work plan proposals.
Detailed Budget
A detailed budget must be submitted for each year of funding requested. EPA has developed a recommended budget template, provided in Attachment E. The GAP grant does not require cost sharing or matching funds.

18. GAP Project Officer Notification
After EPA Project Officers and applicants complete negotiations of GAP work plans and budgets, Project Officers will ask applicants to submit their full application package in Grants.gov. Notification will include:
Amount of tentatively approved funding.
Any final requests for revisions.
Due date this year is January 31, 2019, to begin the process for funding, if awarded, on October 1, 2019.
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