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 Tribal Program Awards Grants to Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas for Water
Quality, Response Program and General Assistance
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 three grants to
the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas to support its water quality, tribal response and
general assistance programs for environmental protection and
improvement.
The Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas, located near Horton, Kan., occupies
approximately 30 square miles of reservation land in portions of Atchison, Brown
and Jackson counties in northeast Kansas. The tribe has more than 1,600 enrolled
members, approximately half of whom reside on the
reservation.
A $257,106 grant to the tribe’s water quality program will support
the monitoring of streams, a lagoon, ponds and groundwater wells; conduct a
watershed assessment, evaluate the tribe’s monitoring strategy; prepare an
assessment report; train a water quality coordinator and water quality
technician; and organize workshops and outreach
seminars.
A $100,000 grant will allow the tribe to begin the process of
establishing a formal tribal response program to address contaminated sites on
the reservation with the goal of returning them to beneficial
reuse.
A $13,300 grant to the tribe’s general assistance program will
address solid waste dumping, environmental outreach and education, and
environmental and financial management.
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.
The Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas
is one of nine federally recognized tribes within EPA Region
7.
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