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Multimedia State and Tribal Assistance Grants
Multimedia STAG Grant Topics
What STAG Grants Are
What STAG Grants Are Used For
Funding Opportunities
Grants Awarded
History and Background
What STAG Grants Are
States and tribes play a vital role in the implementation of the nation's environmental laws and regulations. To strengthen and build EPA's relationships with states and tribes while helping to build capacity, EPA provides grant funds to states, tribes, inter-tribal consortia, territories, state universities and multi-jurisdictional organizations through the State and Tribal Grants (STAG) program.
What STAG Grants Are Used For
STAG Grant funds are used to build and enhance the capacity of states and tribes to carry out compliance assurance activities within their respective jurisdictions. The projects selected cover a wide range of activities that have and will continue to enable states and tribes to demonstrate compliance assurance and enforcement outcomes from their activities while serving as models for other states and tribes. These capacity building activities include training, studies, surveys and investigations.
Funding Opportunities
Each year EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance announces the STAG grant focus areas, application requirements, due dates and amount of money available through a Solicitation Notice. These notices are published at the government-wide Grants.gov Web site and at the EPA STAG Funding Opportunities Web page. This page also provides Frequently asked questions, the STAG Fact Sheet, and Definitions.
Other Offices in EPA also provide STAG funds to states and tribes. Common STAG programs address water treatment, wastewater treatment, targeted watershed grants, and state revolving funds for water projects. Information on these programs is found at Water Funding In addition there are Environmental Justice Grants, the Tribal grant program and grants programs for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act.
Grants Awarded
Information about the Grant Projects selected for funding can be found in the following links. The Office of Grants and Debarment now maintains information on all current grants awarded by EPA, including an abstract and contacts. This database can be accessed at Grant Awards Database. Searches should be performed using CFDA number 66.709.
STAG grants from 1999 through 2005 provides contacts, proposals, abstracts and results (for older completed grants). Abstracts, proposals and results (updated as grants are completed) are also available at List of FY2004 recipients (PDF) (3 pp, 98.72K, About PDF), FY2005 Selected Proposals (PDF) (7 pp, 128.99K, About PDF) and FY2006 STAG Grant Awards (PDF) (2 pp, 14.6K, About PDF).
History and Background
OECA began awarding the Multimedia State and Tribal Assistance Grants in 1999. Since then, over 99 grant projects covering over 7 funding areas were performed by 53 different states, tribes or other eligible organizations.
In January 2005, OECA published its first Grant Innovations at Work: STAG Accomplishments Report (PDF) (84 pp, 544K, About PDF). This Report specifically highlights projects with innovative results and potential transferability to other organizations, and projects that have created institutional change within the grantee’s organization. These highlighted projects demonstrate how information sharing fostered by OECA can drive innovation.
By helping environmental regulatory agencies determine which activities can achieve the best outcomes, the STAG program reinforces the strong performance results focus of EPA. It is the express hope of those involved with the STAG program that these projects can serve as resources to help states and tribes experiment, evaluate and share results with each other as they work to protect public health and the environment by ensuring compliance.