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Plans and Reports
Agency and Program Plans Approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on May 15, 2009
Learn what our Recovery Act dollars will buy, and how:
- we will ensure that funds are spent effectively,
- our projects will aid in the economic recovery and will benefit the environment,
- recipients will incorporate innovative technologies and environmental best practices into their projects, and
- we will ensure transparency and accountability as we spend the funds.
- Overall Agency plan (PDF) (16 pp., 193 KB, about PDF files)
- Brownfields and land revitalization plan (PDF) (9 pp., 125 KB, about PDF files)
- Clean diesel (DERA program) plan (PDF) (10 pp., 128 KB, about PDF files)
- Clean water state revolving fund plan (PDF) (10 pp., 140 KB, about PDF files)
- Drinking water state revolving fund plan (PDF) (10 pp., 133 KB, about PDF files)
- Superfund plan (PDF) (10 pp., 167 KB, about PDF files)
- Underground storage tanks plan (PDF) (14 pp., 205 KB, about PDF files)
These plans are also available on Recovery.gov.
Weekly Reports to OMB
- August 4, 2009 (for the week ending July 31)
- July 28, 2009 (for the week ending July 24)
- July 21, 2009 (for the week ending July 17)
- July 14, 2009 (for the week ending July 10)
- July 7, 2009 (for the week ending July 3)
- June 30, 2009 (for the week ending June 26)
- June 23, 2009 (for the week ending June 19)
- June 16, 2009 (for the week ending June 12)
- June 9, 2009 (for the week ending June 5)
- June 2, 2009 (for the week ending May 29)
- May 26, 2009 (for the week ending May 22)
- May 19, 2009 (for the week ending May 15)
- May 12, 2009 (for the week ending May 8)
- May 5, 2009 (for the week ending May 1)
- April 28, 2009 (for the week ending April 24)
- April 21, 2009 (for the week ending April 17)
- April 14, 2009 (for the week ending April 10)
- April 7, 2009 (for the week ending April 3)
- March 31, 2009 (for the week ending March 27)
- March 24, 2009 (for the week ending March 20)
- March 17, 2009 (for the week ending March 13)
- March 10, 2009 (for the week ending March 6)
- March 3, 2009 (for the week ending February 27)
Highlights of the August 4, 2009 Weekly Report
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We awarded 44 Brownfields cooperative agreements totaling $16.8 million. The funds will be used to assess and clean up contaminated properties and result in the creation of jobs in communities across the country.
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On Thursday, July 30, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced the first Recovery Act Brownfields Job Training Grant to train Chicago workers for green jobs.
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EPA awarded $22,554,000 in Recovery Act funding to the states of Vermont, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Michigan and Alaska for assessing and cleaning up underground storage tank leaks. This money may be used to either oversee or directly pay for assessing and cleaning up leaks, boosting local economies while also protecting public health and the environment.
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On July 28, EPA hosted a webinar regarding leaking underground storage tank (LUST) Recovery Act performance measures for states and territories receiving LUST Recovery Act assistance agreement money.
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EPA awarded over $12 million in Recovery Act funds to the Omaha Lead (NE) Superfund site. The funds will be used to accelerate ongoing cleanup activities at this site, boosting the local economy while also protecting public health and the environment.
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Our Region 10 office awarded a $2.5+ million National Clean Diesel assistance program grant to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
Read the full August 4, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the July 28, 2009 Weekly Report
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EPA awarded $7,402,000 in ARRA funding to the State of Illinois to assess and clean up underground storage tank leaks. This money may be used to either oversee or directly pay for assessing and cleaning up leaks, boosting local economies while also protecting public health and the environment. Additional LUST Recovery Act information may be found at http://www.epa.gov/oust/eparecovery/index.htm
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EPA awarded a total of $4,080,898 in ARRA funding to clean up two Superfund sites: the Tar Creek (OK) site and the Iron Mountain Mine (CA) site. These funds will be used to accelerate ongoing cleanup activities at these sites, boosting local economies while also protecting public health and the environment. Additional site-specific information for these sites may be found at http://www.epa.gov/superfund/eparecovery/index.html.
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EPA awarded more than one million dollars in ARRA funding for water quality planning in the State of Wisconsin.
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In the week of July 20, 2009, 14 new National Clean Diesel assistance program grants were awarded, totaling $25,780,529. EPA Region 5 awarded nine ($19,923,457), Region 7 awarded two ($3,000,000), Region 8 awarded two ($1,950,000) and Region 10 awarded one ($907,072).
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Over the next week, EPA plans to award up to 32 additional grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements across the EPA ARRA programs, totaling over $55 million. Connecticut (2 awards), Maine (4 awards), Massachusetts (2 awards), Rhode Island, Pennsylvania (2 awards), Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri (2 awards), and California will receive over $3.1 million in ARRA Brownfields Assessment and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements. Vermont, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Michigan, and Alaska will receive over $22.5 million under the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program. Colorado, Northern Marianas (2 awards), and Alaska will receive $10 million in ARRA Water State Revolving Fund Resources. Virginia, Texas and Missouri will receive almost $18.4 million for Superfund site remediation. California will receive over $1.2 million in National Clean Diesel Funding.
Read the full July 28, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the July 21, 2009 Weekly Report
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We awarded 26 new National Clean Diesel assistance program grants totaling over $57 million. Our
- Region 3 office awarded four grants totaling $7,297,006,
- Region 4 office awarded three grants toaling $3,793,058,
- Region 6 office awarded eight grants totaling $16,744,772,
- Region 9 office awarded nine grants totaling $26,233,668, and
- Region 10 office awarded two grants totaling $3,110,428.
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We awarded over $94 million in Recovery Act funding for drinking water infrastructure projects in Indiana, Colorado, Tennessee and Puerto Rico.
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EPA awarded over $267 million in Recovery Act funding for wastewater infrastructure projects in Louisiana, Indiana, Utah, Tennessee and Puerto Rico.
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We awarded $7.5 million in Recovery Act funding for water quality planning in New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Utah, Tennessee and Puerto Rico.
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We awarded a total of $8,550,000 in Recovery Act funds to four Superfund sites: Havertown PCP (PA), Escambia Wood (FL), United Metals (FL), and Woolfolk Chemical Works (GA). The funds will be used to initiate new construction or accelerate ongoing cleanup activities at these sites, boosting the local economy while also protecting public health and the environment.
Read the full July 21, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the July 14, 2009 Weekly Report
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We awarded $160 million in Recovery Act funding for drinking water infrastructure projects in the state of Texas.
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Together with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Indian Health Service, we announced $90 million in Recovery Act funds for improved access to drinking water and wastewater services in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
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We awarded 18 new national program grants for clean diesel projects totaling over $37 million. EPA awarded two grants in Region 1 totaling $1,921,426; six grants in Region 2 totaling $16,980,479; three grants in Region 3 totaling $8,820,831; three grants in Region 4 totaling $3,563,227; one in Region 5 totaling $571,100; and three in Region 7 totaling $5,975,609.
Read the full July 14, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the July 7, 2009 Weekly Report
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We awarded over $19.2 million in Recovery Act funding for clean water infrastructure projects in the state of Delaware.
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We awarded $15 million in Recovery Act funding to clean up the Bunker Hill Superfund site in Idaho. These funds will be used to accelerate ongoing cleanup activities at the site, boosting the local economy while also protecting public health and the environment.
Read the full July 7, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the June 30, 2009 Weekly Report
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We awarded over $30 million in Recovery Act funding for clean water infrastructure projects in the state of Maine.
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We entered into cooperative agreements with Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas to provide Recovery Act funding to clean up leaking underground storage tanks. Under the agreements, Iowa will receive $2,643,000, Nebraska will receive $2,270,000, and Kansas will receive $2,153,000. Each state’s cooperative agreement includes descriptions of the state’s work plans.
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We awarded $13,424,002 in Recovery Act funding to clean up two Superfund sites: the Outboard Marine Corporation site in Illinois, and the Iron Mountain site in California. These funds will be used to initiate new construction or accelerate ongoing cleanup activities at these sites, boosting local economies while also protecting public health and the environment.
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We have finalized an interagency agreement with the Department of Energy (DOE) through which DOE will provide EPA with $950,000 to oversee cleanup work at the Savannah River DOE Superfund site, and $610,000 to oversee cleanup work at the Oak Ridge DOE Superfund site.
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We've requested OMB approval to participate in an innovative reporting pilot in cooperation with OMB and State Revolving Fund (SRF) program managers. The reporting pilot will provide EPA with the necessary information to manage the SRF programs as well as provide timely insight into recipients’ responsiveness to the overall Recovery Act reporting process.
Read the full June 30, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the June 23, 2009 Weekly Report
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We awarded over $52 million in Recovery Act funding for clean water infrastructure projects in the state of Ohio. We also announced over $133 million in funding for drinking water infrastructure projects in Ohio.
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We awarded $400,000 in Recovery Act funds to clean up the Eureka Mills Superfund site in Utah. The funds will be used to accelerate ongoing cleanup activities at the site, boosting the local economy while also protecting public health and the environment.
- We awarded over $9 million to the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board through an interagency agreement. These funds will support recipient reporting.
Read the full June 23, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the June 16, 2009 Weekly Report
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We awarded almost $4 million in Recovery Act funds to help clean up the Cherokee County site in southeastern Kansas. The funds will be used to support the initial base year of cleanup work at the Badger and Lawton subsites, consisting of excavation, capping, and re-vegetation of approximately 120 acres that contain approximately 700,000 cubic yards of mine waste.
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We announced $15.6 million in Recovery Act funding for drinking water infrastructure projects in the state of West Virginia.
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We announced funding for water quality management projects in the states of Ohio, Missouri, California, North Carolina, Iowa, Oklahoma and Louisianan, totaling $7.9 million.
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We announced Recovery Act funding for clean water infrastructure projects in the states of Alaska and Oregon, totaling $67.8 million, funding for water infrastructure projects in Delaware and Colorado totaling $44.3 million.
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EPA's Region 6 office in Dallas awarded $3.7 million to the North Central Texas Council of Governments. These funds will be used to:
- upgrade and replace diesel vehicles;
- fund verified SmartWay emission reducing technologies on long-haul trucks; and
- replace or repower heavy-duty diesel vehicles operating in North Texas.
Read the full June 16, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the June 9, 2009 Weekly Report
- We awarded $59.6 million in Superfund Recovery Act funding to eight sites:
- the Ottati and Goss/Great Lakes Container Corp. site in New Hampshire,
- the Lawrence Aviation site in New York,
- the Price Landfill site in New Jersey,
- the Continental Steel site in Indiana,
- the Cherokee County site in Kansas,
- the Arsenic Trioxide site in North Dakota,
- the Gilt Edge/Ruby Repository site in South Dakota, and
- the Upper Ten Mile site in Montana.
The funds will be used to initiate new construction or accelerate ongoing cleanup activities at these sites, boosting local economies while protecting public health and the environment.
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We announced Recovery Act funding for drinking water infrastructure projects in the states of Georgia and Maryland, totaling $81.5 million.
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We announced funding for clean water infrastructure projects in the states of Maryland and Washington, totaling $163 million.
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Administrator Jackson announced the first clean diesel competitive grants, totaling $6 million, in Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio (PDF) (2 pp.,23K, about PDF files) . We will award $206 million over the next month for clean diesel competitive grants.
Read the full June 9, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the June 2, 2009 Weekly Report
- We awarded $51 million in Superfund Recovery Act funding to four sites:
The funds will be used to initiate new construction, or accelerate ongoing cleanup activities at these sites, boosting local economies while protecting public health and the environment.
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We announced Recovery Act funding for drinking water infrastructure projects in the states of Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota and Mississippi, totaling $192.6 million.
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We announced funding for clean water infrastructure projects in the states of North Dakota, Ohio, Minnesota and Illinois, totaling $489 million.
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We announced funding for water quality management planning in the states of Arkansas, New Mexico and Connecticut , totaling $937,300.
Read the full June 2, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the May 26, 2009 Weekly Report
- We awarded almost $48 million in Superfund Recovery Act funding to three sites:
- the South Minneapolis Residential Soil Contamination site in Minnesota,
- the Arsenic Trioxide site in North Dakota, and
- the Eureka Mills site in Utah.
The funds will be used to initiate new construction, or accelerate ongoing cleanup activities at these sites, boosting local economies while protecting public health and the environment.
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We announced Recovery Act funding for drinking water infrastructure projects in the states of North Dakota and Florida, totaling $107.7 million.
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We announced funding for clean water infrastructure projects in the states of Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana, totaling $116.7 million.
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We announced funding for water quality management planning in the states of Nebraska, Mississippi, Kentucky, Florida and Alabama, totaling $2.8 million.
Read the full May 26, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the May 19, 2009 Weekly Report
- We awarded more than $42 million in Superfund Recovery Act funding to three sites in New England:
- the Hatheway and Patterson site,
- the Elizabeth Mine site, and
- the Silresim Chemical Corporation site.
The funds will be used to initiate new construction, or accelerate ongoing cleanup activities, at these sites, boosting local economies while protecting public health and the environment.
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We submitted our final Agency and Program Plan [link to http://epa.gov/recovery/plans.html#plans ] to OMB on May 15, 2009. The information was submitted by OMB to the Recovery and Accountability and Transparency Board and published on Recovery.gov.
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The White House’s Recovery and Accountability and Transparency Board identified EPA's Stimulus Steering Committee (SSC) as a Recovery Act "best practice." The SSC is a governance body established to oversee Recovery Act communication, implementation policies, business processes, performance measurement, reporting and monitoring.
Read the full May 19, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the May 12, 2009 Weekly Report
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We began to evaluate and review over 600 applications for two clean diesel competitions that closed on April 28, 2009.
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On May 5, the Emerging Technologies Clean Diesel grants program competition ($20M available) closed. 32 applications were submitted, requesting $57M.
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On May 8, we announced the selection of 252 communities to receive $111.9M in brownfields grants. These grants, going to communities in 46 states, 4 tribal nations, and two territories, will help assess and clean up contaminated sites and restore them to environmental and economic health. These grants include $37.3M in Recovery Act funding, in addition to $74.6M in EPA general program funding. View a list of communities receiving funding.
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We awarded seven Superfund sites $145M in Recovery Act funds. Those sites are:
- Roebling Steel Superfund Site (NJ),
- Imperial Oil/Champion Superfund Site (NJ),
- Vineland Chemical Company Superfund Site (NJ),
- Welsbach and General Gas Mantle Superfund Site (NJ),
- Cornell Dubilier Electronics Superfund Site (NJ),
- Standard Chlorine Superfund Site (DE), and
- Summitville Mine Superfund Site (CO).
The funds will be used to accelerate ongoing cleanup activities or initiate new construction at these sites, boosting local economies while also protecting public health and the environment.
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We are working with the Department of Energy on an Interagency Agreement to fund EPA’s oversight responsibilities for the Savannah River Superfund site in Aiken, South Carolina. EPA anticipates receiving $950,000 in Recovery Act funding for EPA’s work at the site through FY 2011.
Read the full May 12, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the May 5, 2009 Weekly Report
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We funded $45.7 million for clean water infrastructure projects for Arizona and Nevada.
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We funded $94.3 million for drinking water infrastructure projects in Arizona, Nevada and Delaware.
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We funded $818,000 in water quality management planning grants for Kansas, Arizona and Nevada.
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Competitions for the Recovery Act National Clean Diesel grants program ($156M) closed on April 28. We received 589 applications nationwide. The SmartWay Clean Diesel Finance program competition also closed ($30M). We received 17 applications. The Clean Diesel Emerging Technologies grant solicitation ($20M) will close on May 5.
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EPA awarded Oklahoma $11.7 million in Recovery Act funding to accelerate the ongoing voluntary relocation of people living in three communities near the Tar Creek Superfund site in Ottawa County in northwestern Oklahoma. This initial investment will accelerate cleanup by making possible the removal and consolidation of smaller chat piles.
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We funded $20.55 million to accelerate cleanup at the Iron Mountain Superfund site near Redding, California. The funds will be used to dredge, treat and dispose of heavy-metal contaminated sediment in the Spring Creek Arm of the Keswick Reservoir.
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We signed an interagency agreement with the Department of Energy (DOE) through which DOE will send us $38.3 million to conduct a radiological assessment of DOE’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory.
Read the full May 5, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the April 28, 2009 Weekly Report
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We funded clean water infrastructure projects in the states of Oklahoma and Iowa totaling $84.7 million.
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EPA will review requests for supplemental Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Brownfield cooperative agreements. The grantees we select will use the Recovery Act funds for loans and subgrants to private and public entities for cleanup activities. The deadline to submit requests is May 1, 2009.
Read the full April 28, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the April 21, 2009 Weekly Report
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We awarded Recovery Act funding for drinking water infrastructure projects to the states of North Carolina and Michigan, totaling $133.1 million, and for clean water infrastructure projects to the states of Florida, Michigan and Kansas, totaling $336.2 million.
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As of April 17, 2009, 44 states have been awarded clean diesel grants totaling $76.1 million.
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On April 15, Administrator Jackson announced the list of Superfund cleanup projects that will receive a total of $582 million in Recovery Act funding. We anticipate that the new funding will support cleanups at 50 sites in 28 states across the country.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) told us that we will receive between $38 and $40 million of DOE funding to conduct a radiological survey of part of DOE's Santa Susana Field Laboratory
Read the full April 21, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the April 14, 2009 Weekly Report
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We awarded Recovery Act funding for drinking water infrastructure projects to the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Kentucky and Maine, totaling $129.8 million.
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As of April 10, 2009, 34 states have been awarded clean diesel grants totaling $58.8 million.
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We issued an April 10 Federal Register notice announcing that eligible Brownfields revolving loan grantees may request supplemental funding under the Recovery Act. The additional funding can be used for loans or subgrants to public and private borrowers to clean up Brownfield sites.
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We allocated $190.7 million in Recovery Act funding for states and territories to clean up underground storage tank leaks, and $6.3 million for tank cleanups in Indian country. View information on the specific amount for each state and territory.
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We announced $10-25 million in new funding through the Recovery Act for the Iron Mountain Mine Superfund site near Redding, California. The additional funds accelerate site cleanup significantly, making it possible to dredge, treat, and dispose of heavy-metal contaminated sediments in the Spring Creek Arm of the Keswick Reservoir in 18 months rather than three years.
Read the full April 14, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the April 7, 2009 Weekly Report
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To date, we have obligated $48.87 million as a Clean Water State Revolving Fund grant (West Virginia), $1.73 million as a Diesel Emissions Reduction Act grant (Colorado) and the remaining amounts for management and oversight.
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Late Friday, April 3, we awarded over $400 million to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation . This new infusion of money will help the state and local governments finance many of the overdue improvements to waste water projects that are essential to protecting public health and the environment across the state.
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We awarded a total of over $180 million to four additional state Clean Water Revolving Fund (SRF) programs (West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Nebraska) and $39 million to two state Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs (Nebraska and Kansas).
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We completed assessments on one emissions control technology and two emerging technologies. These innovative technologies are now available for use in Recovery Act clean diesel projects.
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We prepared additional detailed questions and answers for use by National Clean Diesel grant respondents on three open competitions.
Read the full April 7, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the March 31, 2009 Weekly Report
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We have obligated $1.73 million under the Recovery Act as a clean diesel grant and the remaining amount for management and oversight.
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We are developing internal management processes and systems to ensure recipients of Recovery Act resources achieve goals of job creation and preservation, environmental results and economic recovery. This continuous effort includes development of monitoring and performance measurement mechanisms, quality procedures and accountability tracking.
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We continue to work closely with state representatives to clarify guidance, assist with the grant application process and provide information useful for public communication. This work is being done through direct engagement, conference calls, webinars and the internet.
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We signed on March 26 a determination to extensively use current emergency response and cleanup contracts which will allow EPA to quickly obligate Recovery funds.
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We have completed all formula grant allocations.
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EPA awarded its first Recovery Act grant for $1.73 million to the State of Colorado. Using these Recovery Act funds, Colorado will install diesel emission control technologies on its local school bus fleets.
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Under the National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program, we prepared detailed questions and answers for use by grant respondents.
Read the full March 31, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the March 24, 2009 Weekly Report
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We posted full announcements to request applications for three diesel emission reduction grant competitions totaling $206 million and a $5 million brownfields job training competition. The four grant competitions will address environmental issues and promote economic recovery and job creation.
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We developed draft Recovery Act guidance for Interagency Agreements and distributed the guidance to the EPA grants management community for comment. This guidance will clarify the procedures for entering into agreements with other federal agencies and departments. Interagency Agreements allow EPA to better leverage federal resources in carrying out the provisions of the Recovery Act.
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We submitted formula grant allocation information to OMB for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF), Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF), and Water Quality Management Planning Grant (604b) programs.
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We received full grant applications for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund from Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Vermont, Michigan, New York, West Virginia, North Carolina and Puerto Rico, and a conditional application from Nebraska. We also received full grant applications under the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund from Maine, Kentucky, Vermont, and Kansas, and conditional applications from Michigan and Nebraska
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Under the State Clean Diesel Grant program, we worked with the states and the District of Columbia to help them meet the March 20, 2009 deadline for grant applications. We expect to make awards to the states by April 17, 2009.
- Under the Leaking Underground Storage Tanks (LUST) program, we modified program guidance in response to state comments to ensure the most efficient and timely use of Recovery Act funds.
Read the full March 24, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the March 17, 2009 Weekly Report
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Our grants representatives are working with Indian Health Service and the Army Corps of Engineers on standard terms and conditions for interagency agreements to ensure consistent implementation of the Recovery Act requirements.
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We are defining reporting requirements for internal grant progress and expenditure tracking reports. The reports, which will include tracking by location and grant program, will ensure transparency and accountability.
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We entered model funding recommendations for the Water, Leaking Underground Storage Tanks, and Brownfields grants programs into the EPA Integrated Grants Management System (IGMS), and plan to enter similar recommendations for the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act Program grants into the IGMS. The models will reduce the time required for project officers to prepare justifications for grant awards.
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OMB has approved our stimulus emergency information request – this is a necessary step to allow the award of stimulus grants
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Under the State Clean Diesel Grant program, we informed all 50 states and the District of Columbia that each can receive $1.73 million. The total amount to be divided among the states and D.C. is $88 million.
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Under the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs, on March 12 we conducted a widely attended webcast on the programs' green project reserve and answered questions from state program managers on the new 604(b) guidance (PDF) (32 pp., 633K, About PDF).
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Under the Brownfields program, we developed measures to track progress on Brownfields sites using stimulus resources which will allow EPA to quantify jobs created and retained through this new funding.
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Under the Leaking Underground Storage Tanks program, we continued discussion and collaboration with state officials to assist them in meeting their responsibilities for cleaning up leaking underground tanks using stimulus resources.
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Under the Superfund program, we received authority to modify existing state Superfund contracts, thus easing financial burdens on states that accept Recovery Act funding.
Read the full March 17, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the March 10, 2009 Weekly Report
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We posted synopses for competitive announcements, one of two kinds of grants available to stimulus funding recipients, on grants.gov - an integral first step to encouraging proposal submissions to EPA.
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Review synopses posted on grants.gov of announcements for:
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We submitted an emergency Information Collection Request (ICR) to OMB, an important federal requirement designed to lessen the burden of reporting while also maintaining needed accountability to the government for funds received.
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We issued the initial Guidance for Award of Water Quality Management Planning Grants with Recovery Act Funds (604(b) Guidance) (PDF) (32 pp., 633K, About PDF), which allows grants to begin being awarded in the next 30 days. These grants are awarded under Section 205(j)(2) of the Clean Water Act, using funds reserved under Section 604(b).
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to speed the obligation of Recovery Act funds, we made an administrative determination to use in-place, competitively awarded emergency response and cleanup contracts.
- under the Clean Diesel program,,
- worked with states and the District of Columbia to help them meet the deadline for the first step to receive State Clean Diesel Program funds; all 50 states and the District of Columbia met the March 6th deadline.
- continued to inform and collaborate with numerous communities of interest including regional air agencies, local councils of governments, states, port authorities, industry, non-governmental organizations and others, via workshops, conference calls and webinars.
- under the Brownfields program,
- refined a draft plan for implementation and distribution of Recovery Act funds.
- refined a draft plan for implementation and distribution of Recovery Act funds.
- under the Leaking Underground Storage Tank program,
- continued discussion and collaboration with state underground storage tanks officials on the scope of funding, potential projects, and reporting requirements.
- continued discussion and collaboration with state underground storage tanks officials on the scope of funding, potential projects, and reporting requirements.
- under the Superfund program,
- refined a draft plan for implementing the Recovery Act and a preliminary list of projects that will potentially receive Recovery Act funding.
- refined a draft plan for implementing the Recovery Act and a preliminary list of projects that will potentially receive Recovery Act funding.
- under the Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse program,
- coordinated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on its plans for the $6 billion received in the Recovery Act. DOE relayed how it plans to allocate funding and involve EPA and the states.
Read the full March 10, 2009 report in Excel format
Highlights of the March 3, 2009 Weekly Report
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begun to administer the $7.22 billion in AARA funding allocated to support projects and programs administered by the Agency. To date, OMB has authorized $6.24 billion of this amount.
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established a senior-level management and oversight structure to assure that all issues related to the stimulus are addressed, deadlines are met and systems are in place to award, monitor and track ARRA money entrusted to the Agency.
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begun preparation of an Agency emergency Information Collection Request (ICR) – a necessary paperwork reduction requirement which must be met before we can award grants.
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under the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs,
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posted the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund allotments (PDF) (2 pp, 109K, About PDF) by state based on the final economic recovery appropriations.
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issued guidance on the award of capitalization grants for the use of ARRA funding for the Drinking Water and Clean Water State Revolving Loan Funds (PDF) (49 pp, 661K, About PDF).
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sent 604(b) guidance to states and EPA Regional offices for comment.
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under the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) program,
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notified 50 states and the District of Columbia of the availability of DERA funds through a Notice of Intent to Apply. (States must reply by March 6th their acceptance of ARRA DERA State Program Funds - a step required by Energy Policy Act [EPAct] of 2005). If all states apply, each state and the District of Columbia will receive a minimum of $1.7M through the state program.
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presented ARRA DERA program information to a number of stakeholder groups, including the Mobile Source Technical Review subcommittee of Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, National Association of Clean Air Agencies
membership, SmartWay Transport partners, tribes and others.
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under the Brownfields program, developed a draft plan for implementation as well as draft grant recipient terms and conditions which ensure accountability.
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under the leaking underground storage tank program, developed a draft allocation plan for stimulus funds as well as draft implementation guidance and measures to ensure accountability.
- under the Superfund program, developed a draft implementation plan.
Read the full March 3, 2009 report in Excel format