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 Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation for Water
Pollution Control, 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 two grants to the
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation to support water pollution control efforts and
provide general assistance to the tribe’s environmental protection
programs.
The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, headquartered near Mayetta, Kan.,
occupies approximately 77,400 acres of reservation land in Jackson County in
north central Kansas. The tribe has more than 4,700 members, more than 700 of
whom reside on the reservation.
A $12,173 grant will allow the tribe to continue to build capacity
for comprehensive planning and environmental protection programs to protect the
quality of the environment within the reservation. Funding will administer an
environmental office, develop water programs to reduce pollution sources, build
capacity for solid waste management, and assist with community outreach and
environmental education.
A $3,500 grant will allow the tribe to continue to conduct surface
and groundwater monitoring on the reservation to determine whether the water is
impaired or unsafe for human contact. The grant will also fund a quality
assurance project plan and assessment report; revisions to the monitoring
strategy as needed; water quality training; and outreach activities to provide
tribal members with information about water quality.
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 Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is one of nine federally
recognized tribes within EPA Region 7.
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