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Environmental Information Exchange Grants Awarded New Network will Transform EPA Data Exchange
Release date: 10/29/2003
Contact Information:
Suzanne Ackerman 202-564-7819 / ackerman.suzanne@epa.gov
(10/29/03) To simplify the sharing of environmental data, grants for continued work on the National Environmental Information Exchange Network were announced today by Acting Administrator Marianne Horinko. Forty-three states, two U.S. territories, and 16 Native American tribes received approximately $20 million in grants in the second phase of fiscal year 2003 funding. When complete, the Exchange Network will revolutionize the way states, tribes and other partners send information to EPA. States and other partners will no longer have to spend time and dollars to resolve hardware or data incompatibility problems in order to transfer data - - they will not have to transmit the data at all. Instead they will establish nodes, special computers where they will store their environmental data, and EPA will collect the data using a universal format software language.
“I am so pleased to announce these grants today,” said Horinko. “For too long, states and other EPA partners have shouldered a disproportionate share of the work and costs of exchanging environmental data. EPA needs timely environmental information to make informed policy decisions. And the American public is entitled to view important environmental information on their communities. The federal government will be able to obtain needed information without the states and other partners incurring high costs.”
The creation of the Exchange Network is also part of the eGovernment Initiative of the President’s Management Agenda, which mandates that the federal government take full advantage of modern information technology to make data more accessible to citizens and other interested parties. This initiative further encourages collaboration between federal, state, local and tribal affiliates in sharing technology to leverage limited state and tribal dollars. EPA anticipates that Congress will continue to fund the grant program for a third year in FY 2004.
The Network Grant Program includes four types of grants:
1. Network One Stop Grants continue the work accomplished under the One Stop Program, which awarded grants to states that had already committed significant state resources to data management and reporting improvements.
- 2. Network Readiness Grants foster network participation, such as node development, assignment of data stewardship roles and responsibility, establishment of trading partner agreements, and internal data clean up.
- 3. Network Challenge Grants are for collaborative work that advances the Exchange Network, including projects that result in a higher level of quality data, reduce reporting burden, or provide increased public access to the data.
- 4. Network Administration Grants are to support State/Tribal technical and administrative functions of the Network.
More information on the different types of grants and EPA’s National Environmental Information Exchange Network is available at: http://www.epa.gov/Networkg/
A complete list of the grantees is attached.
FY 2003 Exchange Network Grant Program |  |
Office of Environmental Information | |
Final Awards - September 2003 | |
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| Challenge State Grants | |
| California - Environmental Protection Agency | $1,000,000 |
| Delaware - Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | $378,000 |
| Maine - Department of Environmental Protection | $494,000 |
| Total Challenge State Grants: 3 | $1,872,000 |
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| Challenge Tribe Grants | |
| Board of Regents for and on behalf of Northern Arizona University - Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals | $190,000 |
| Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes - Native Lands and Resources | $150,000 |
| Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma - Office of Environmental Services | $190,000 |
| Coeur D'Alene Tribe of the Coeur D'Alene Reservation, Idaho - Tribal GIS Program | $190,000 |
| Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, Washington - Environmental Protection Agency | $190,000 |
| Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming - Wind River Environmental Quality Commission | $190,000 |
| Total Challenge Tribe Grants: 6 | $1,100,000 |
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| Readiness State Grants | |
| Arizona - Department of Environmental Quality | $297,700 |
| California - Environmental Protection Agency | $810,000 |
| Delaware - Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | $297,700 |
| Florida - Department of Environmental Protection | $297,700 |
| Georgia - Department of Natural Resources | $297,700 |
| Idaho - Department of Environmental Quality | $297,700 |
| Illinois - Environmental Protection Agency | $178,600 |
| Iowa - Department of Natural Resources | $297,700 |
| Kansas - Department of Health and Environment | $297,700 |
| Louisiana - Department of Health and Hospitals | $237,000 |
| Maine - Department of Environmental Protection | $297,700 |
| Maryland - Department of the Environment | $297,700 |
| Massachusetts - Department of Environmental Protection | $178,600 |
| Michigan - Department of Environmental Quality | $297,000 |
| Minnesota - Pollution Control Agency | $297,700 |
| Mississippi - Department of Environmental Quality | $297,700 |
| Missouri - Department of Natural Resources | $297,700 |
| Montana - Department of Environmental Quality | $297,700 |
| Nebraska - Department of Environmental Quality | $400,000 |
| New Hampshire - Department of Environmental Services | $297,700 |
| New Jersey - Department of Environmental Protection | $296,600 |
| New Mexico - Environment Department | $297,700 |
| New York - State Department of Environmental Conservation | $297,700 |
| North Carolina - Department of Environment and Natural Resources | $178,600 |
| Ohio - Environmental Protection Agency | $297,700 |
| Oklahoma - Department of Environmental Quality | $297,700 |
| Oregon - Department of Environmental Quality | $287,876 |
| Pennsylvania - Department of Environmental Protection | $178,600 |
| Rhode Island - Department of Environmental Management | $74,786 |
| South Carolina - Department of Health and Environmental Control | $297,700 |
| Texas - Commission on Environmental Quality | $297,700 |
| Utah - Department of Environmental Quality | $297,700 |
| Vermont - Agency of Natural Resources | $297,700 |
| Virginia - Department of Environmental Quality | $178,600 |
| Washington - Department of Ecology | $297,700 |
| West Virginia - Department of Health and Human Resources | $178,600 |
| Wisconsin - Department of Natural Resources | $297,700 |
| Total Readiness State Grants: 37 | $10,619,662 |
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| Readiness Territory Grants | |
| Guam - Environmental Protection Agency | $178,600 |
| Puerto Rico - Environmental Quality Board | $297,700 |
| Total Readiness Territory Grants: 2 | $476,300 |
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| Readiness Tribe Grants | |
| Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon - Tribal Planning Department | $100,000 |
| Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona - Department of Natural Resources | $100,000 |
| Navajo Nation Arizona, New Mexico and Utah - Environmental Protection Agency | $100,000 |
| St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of New York - Environment Division | $100,000 |
| Total Readiness Tribe Grants: 4 | $400,000 |
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| One Stop State Grants | |
| Alabama - Department of Environmental Management | $500,000 |
| Colorado - Department of Public Health and Environment | $500,000 |
| District of Columbia - Department of Health | $500,000 |
| Hawaii - Department of Health | $500,000 |
| North Dakota - Department of Health | $500,000 |
| South Dakota - Department of Environment and Natural Resources | $500,000 |
| Wyoming - Department of Environmental Quality | $500,000 |
| Total One Stop State Grants: 7 | $3,500,000 |
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| One Stop Tribe Grants | |
| Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin - Tribal Government | $47,996 |
| Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota, Grand Portage Band - Grand Portage Reservation Trust Lands: Natural Resources | $47,000 |
| Cortina Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians of California - Environmental Protection Agency | $48,000 |
| Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians of California - Tribal Environmental Programs | $48,000 |
| La Jolla Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the La Jolla Reservation, California - Environmental Resources Office | $47,000 |
| Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho - Land Services | $48,000 |
| Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona - Cultural and Environmental Services | $48,000 |
| Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska - Environmental Protection Department | $66,000 |
| Total One Stop Tribe Grants: 8 | $399,996 |
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| Network Administration Grant | |
| Environmental Council of the States | $1,000,000 |
| Total Network Administration Grants: 1 | $1,000,000 |
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| Summary 2003 Network Grant Awards | |
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| Total Number of Grants | 68 |
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