U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Region 7
901 N. Fifth
St., Kansas City, KS 66101
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Nine Tribal
Nations
EPA Region 7 Awards $39,942 Environmental
Performance Partnership Grant to Santee Sioux Nation of
Nebraska
Contact Information: Chris Whitley, 913-551-7394, whitley.christopher@epa.gov
Environmental News
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Kansas City, Kan.,
July 9, 2012) - EPA Region 7’s Office of Tribal Affairs has awarded a $39,942
performance partnership grant to the Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska to support
the tribe’s environmental protection efforts.
The Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska, headquartered at Santee, Neb.,
occupies approximately 18,000 acres of reservation land along the Missouri River
in northeast Nebraska. The tribe has approximately 2,500 enrolled members, and a
reservation population of 603.
EPA’s grant, expressed through a cooperative agreement, provides
administrative flexibility and support to the tribe’s Office of Environmental
Protection, which has conducted water quality monitoring under the federal Clean
Water Act since 1996.
Under this grant, the tribe will continue to monitor groundwater,
fish tissue, wetlands, streams and ponds on the reservation. The Office of
Environmental Protection will analyze data to identify issues of interest or
concern for future monitoring, and will use data to inform the tribal council
and its people on the water quality of the reservation.
EPA provides financial assistance to states and tribes to help them
implement environmental programs. States and tribes may receive these funds in
individual environmental program categorical grants, or choose to combine grants
in a performance partnership grant (PPG). PPGs, such as the one awarded to the
Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska, streamline administrative requirements, give
states and tribes greater flexibility to direct resources to their most pressing
environmental problems, and make it easier to fund efforts that cut across
program boundaries.
The Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska is one of nine federally
recognized tribes within EPA Region 7.
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