Investing in America through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grants
Tribes and Intertribal Consortia Fact Sheet

Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.

Selected Grant Recipient

Name: Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.
Project Location: Anchorage, AK
Project Title: Innovation Continuation

Highlights

•	Serves five small, rural Tribes.

•	Organizes community outreach activities.

•	Builds on a previous program advancing

technology in low-income schools,

EPA Information

neighborhoods, and rural Alaska communities.

Region: EPA Region 10
Grant Funding: $1,500,000

The Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. will expand materials management infrastructure that supports
plastics recycling in five Alaska Native villages. The project will achieve this objective by purchasing
equipment and supplies such as shredders, extruders, sheet presses, and molds. It will increase
plastics collection and improve infrastructure by providing training and educational resources, as
well as installing equipment in participating communities. The Tribe will also organize community
cleanup days, household plastics collection challenges, multi-generational plastic sort-and-clean
events, and school-based educational activities. The project will help communities through cleanup,
land restoration, waste reduction and waste prevention to enhance policies and programs to
support circularity and reduce contamination.

SWIFR Grants to Tribes and Intertribal Consortia

The 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides the largest EPA investment in recycling in 30 years to
support National Recycling Strategy implementation and build a circular economy for all. As part of
the Investing in America agenda, this funding supports improvements to waste management
systems and programs, allowing resources to be used more efficiently and reducing the impact on
the climate. SWIFR Tribal grant funding can be used to develop or update post-consumer materials
management plans; establish or optimize collection and management of materials; fund
infrastructure, technology, or other improvements to reduce contamination; enhance markets for
recycled commodities; and increase the diversion, recycling rate, and quality of materials collected.
These grants also advance the Justice^ Initiative, which aims to ensure that 40% of the overall
benefits of certain federal investments flow to communities that have historically been underserved
and overburdened by pollution.

EPA will make the award to Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc., once all legal and administrative
requirements are satisfied.

EPA 530-F-24-005-CIT

https://www.ppa.gov/infrastructurp/SWIFR
August 2024


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