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EPA Tribal General Assistance Program

The Indian Environmental General Assistance Program (GAP) provides grants to federally-recognized tribes and tribal consortia for planning, developing, and establishing environmental protection programs in Indian country, as well as for developing and implementing solid and hazardous waste programs on tribal lands.

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PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program is achieving results as determined by an independent evaluation. The evaluation showed that GAP has been effective in building the foundation of environmental capacity among tribes, as defined as capability in one or more of five indicator areas - technical, legal, enforcement, administrative and communications.
  • Grantee oversight is improving. EPA is implementing an electronic GAP Tracking System that will view grant activity by tribe, region or nationwide. This will greatly improve the ability to monitor and evaluate grantee performance.
  • The program is making progress in achieving its performance goals. EPA is making strides in achieving its long-term and annual performance goals. Tribal participation continues to increase as per Congress' expressed desires for the program. This increase is both in numbers of tribal governments participating in the GAP and the variety of environmental issues in which they are developing capacity.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Implementing GAP tracking system.
  • Developing a long term measure for GAP related to solid waste issues and activities.

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