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Columbia River Basin Restoration Funding
Assistance Program 2022 Grant Award Summaries
COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN
RESTORATION PROGRAM
ABOUT THE
COLUMBIA RIVER
BASIN RESTORATION
FUNDING
ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM
Congress amended the Clean
Water Act in 2016, which required
EPA to establish a Columbia
River Basin Restoration Program.
EPA v/as directed to develop
a voluntary, competitive grant
program for eligible entities to
fund environmental protection and
restoration programs throughout
the Basin. Eligible entities include
state, Tribal, and local governments,
regional water pollution control
organizations, nongovernmental
organizations, and soil and water
conservation districts. Funded
work must be for the purpose of
environmental protection and
restoration activities within the
Columbia River Basin and may
include programs, projects, and
studies. EPA funded 14 projects in
the 2020, inaugural round of grants
that address the following four
priorities:
1. Increase monitoring and access
to data from monitoring.
2. Reduce stormwater and
agricultural runoff.
3. Reduce toxics through small
scale cleanup of non-CERCLA
(also known as Superfund)
contaminated sites.
4. Promote citizen engagement,
education, and involvement to
increase pollution prevention
actions.
CATEGORY #1: AGRICULTURAL BEST PRACTICES
1 I Salmon-Safe Columbia Basin Pledge: Accelerating Water Quality Protection
in the Interior Columbia Basin—Salmon-Safe (OR, WA, ID, MT, WY)
EPA Grant Amount: $342,000 (funded with Bipartisan infrastructure Law funds)
Mandatory Cost Share: $114,250
Total Project Cost: $456,250
Location: Middle and Upper Columbia River Basin
Salmon-Safe will build on the successful roll out of Salmon-Safe initiatives in interior Columbia Basin
tributaries that were implemented with the first phase of EPA funding. Salmon-Safe Columbia Basin
Pledge will scale up activities in these tributaries, particularly in Idaho, while introducing their new
Trout-Safe initiative in Columbia River tributaries across western Montana and the Wyoming portion
of the Teton River Valley and upper Snake River. Salmon-Safe will roll out the Columbia Basin
Pledge, engaging 250 farmers across multiple crop sectors and other large-scale land managers
in actions to protect downstream water quality. Earning Salmon-Safe certification will require that
these mostly large-scale, diversified farms reduce or eliminate the use of pesticides that are harmful
to fish and wildlife and reduce runoff and wind erosion, while also improving soil health, riparian
habitat, irrigation efficiency, and protecting wildlife habitat and enhancing native biodiversity. The
project is a long-term strategy to reduce toxics and enhance climate resiliency in the watershed,
while demonstrating market support to maintain viable farming operations.
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COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN
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BIPARTISAN
INFRASTRUCTURE
LAW FUNDING
The EPA Columbia River
Basin Program received
$79 million in the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law (BIL)
in 2021. This funding
provides EPA the ability
to grow the Columbia
River Basin Restoration
Program and significantly
increase competitive grants
throughout the Basin to
reduce toxics. EPA will
issue three additional
Requests for Applications in
2022/2023 using BIL funds
to increase toxics reduction
through agricultural best
practices, storm water green
infrastructure, pollution
prevention, clean-up of
small non-CERCLA sites, and
community education and
engagement.
2 I Next Steps in Pesticide Stewardship Partnerships at the Washington
State Department of Agriculture—Washington State Department of
Agriculture (WA)
EPA Grant Amount: $349,898
Mandatory Cost Share: $116,633
Total Project Cost: $466,531
Location: Upper Columbia River Basin
The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) will continue the previously funded surface
water monitoring work for a third year, in keeping with WSDA's Surface Water Monitoring Program
guidelines of monitoring Tier 1 sites biweekly for three consecutive years for an initial evaluation of
water quality. This project also will incorporate targeted outreach (including data collected during
monitoring in 2021 and 2022). In addition, this project incorporates the next step in the development
of WSDA's pesticide stewardship program, which will involve planning for activities that would
support Washington's agricultural producers in meeting new pesticide labeling requirements.
CATEGORY #2: STORMWATER GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
3 I Urban Waters and Wildlife Partnership & Program Implementation
(Phase II)—Cascade Pacific RC& D (OR)
EPA Grant Amount: $349,978
Mandatory Cost Share: $118,452
Total Project Cost: $468,430
Location: Willamette River Basin/Middle Columbia River
Cascade Pacific RC&D will continue the expansion of an existing stormwater retrofit program that
fills a niche in the urban area by incentivizing stormwater retrofits to complement existing regulatory
stormwater programs, working with businesses on a voluntary basis who do not have a regulatory
requirement to install stormwater facilities or otherwise manage site-produced toxins that impact
urban stormwater runoff. These retrofits reduce or eliminate pollution and runoff, improve water
quality, and protect habitat while promoting citizen engagement and knowledge. The project will
continue to refine and align program objectives to the newly expanded partnership base in the
extended area of work, expand and align monitoring and evaluation processes, and engage the
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Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) community with a focus on workforce expansion in green
stormwater infrastructure through collaborative training.
CATEGORY #3: MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
4 I Phase 2 Pilot Implementation of the Columbia River Mainstem Fish
Tissue and Water Quality Monitoring Program - Grant A: Planning, Outreach
and OAPP development—Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama
Nation
EPA Grant Amount: $350,000 (funded with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds)
Total Project Cost: $350,000
Location: Middle and Upper Columbia River Basin
The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation will implement Phase 2 Grant A, part
of a three-phased plan to develop and implement the Columbia River Mainstem Fish Tissue and
Water Quality Monitoring Program. This Program aims at tracking the status and trends of toxics
in fish, water, sediments, and invertebrates in the Columbia River mainstem from Bonneville Dam
to the Canadian border. Phase 2 Grant A will inform the overall development of the Monitoring
Program through the production of Quality Assurance Project Plans for fish, water, sediment and
invertebrates. These plans will combine geospatial data and methods for sampling to steer the data
collection activities in Phase 2 Grant B.
5 I Phase 2 Pilot Implementation of the Columbia River Mainstem Fish
Tissue and Water Quality Monitoring Program: Grant B - Field Data
Collection, Analytical, and Reporting—Confederated Tribes and Bands
of the Yakama Nation
EPA Grant Amount: $350,000 (funded with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds)
Total Project Cost: $350,000
Location: Middle and Upper Columbia River Basin
The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation will use Phase 2 Grant B to implement
a Pilot Study for fish tissue and sediment sampling on an approximately 50-mile stretch of the
Columbia River, Bonneville Reservoir (Bonneville Dam to The Dalles Dam). This Pilot Study will
use the products developed in Phase 2 Grant A (e.g., Quality Assurance Project Plans for fish,
COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN
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COLUMBIA
RIVER BASIN
RESTORATION
PROGRAM VISION
STATEMENT
The EPA Columbia
River Basin Restoration
Program—through the
implementation of Clean
Water Act Section 123—
will be a catalyst for
basin-wide toxics reduction
work efforts, enabling
communities to access
unimpaired watersheds
with healthy fish and
wildlife and quantifiable
toxics reductions in fish,
wildlife, and water.
water, sediment, and invertebrates; Standard Operating Procedures; and permits, all of which
were informed by the Phase 1 Monitoring Framework). Data from Phase 2 Grant B will be stored
in a public repository with a report that outlines the sampling protocols with recommendations for
improvements, and a high-level data summary.
6 I Upper Columbia Basin Contaminant Status, Movement, and Remedial
Pilot Study—Spokane Tribe of the Spokane Reservation
EPA Grant Amount: $262,500 (funded with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds)
Total Project Cost: $262,500
Location: Upper Columbia River Basin
The Spokane Tribe of the Spokane Reservation will build on other work in the Upper Columbia
Basin, including sampling conducted under EPA's Upper Columbia River Remedial Investigation and
Washington Department of Ecology's recent 2019 biofilm study. This project will complement the
recently funded Columbia River Mainstem Fish Tissue and Water Quality Monitoring Framework
study led by the Yakama Nation. The proposed project will monitor a suite of contaminants of
concern (COCs) across four media: surface water, bottom sediments, suspended sediments, and
biofilm. The primary goals of the study are to: 1) Identify areas where contaminant concentrations
are elevated or exceed water quality and sediment quality standards set by the Spokane Tribe and
EPA, EPA Aquatic Water Quality Criteria (AWQC); 2) Evaluate movement of contaminants transported
through the river across media; 3) Identify which contaminants are entering the food web via biofilm
that are available to bioaccumulate up the food chain; and 4) Test the feasibility of a sediment
particle trap methodology that could be scaled up for large-scale restoration actions in the future.
7 I Monitor Contaminants Trends, Transport, Uptake, and Transfer through
the Kootenai River Ecosystem to Evaluate Fish Bioaccumulation and Inform
Fish Consumption Advisories—Kootenai Tribe of Idaho
EPA Grant Amount: $349,040 (funded with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds)
Total Project Cost: $349,040
Location: Upper Columbia River Basin
The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho will monitor contaminant trends, transport, uptake, and transfer
through the Kootenai River Ecosystem. The Kootenai River Ecosystem is already highly altered
from a century of changes to support modern society, including extensive floodplain diking and
hydropower operations. Presently, the expanded coal mining operations in southeastern British
Columbia further threaten ecosystem health and resiliency. Significant investment has been made
to reverse the precipitous decline of native fish, including the endangered Kootenai River White
Sturgeon, threatened Bull Trout, Burbot, and Kokanee through large-scale habitat improvements
and conservation aquaculture. The native fish and wildlife are culturally and spiritually significant
to the Kootenai Tribe, the Tribe's sister-tribes in the Ktunaxa Nation, and to the region in general.
Through continued contaminants monitoring, with an emphasis on Selenium and Mercury, the Tribe
will evaluate fish bioaccumulation trends to inform future adaptive management of restoration
programs, inform policy to protect recent success in re-building fish abundance, and inform fish
consumption advisories to protect tribal and general public health.
8 I City of Vancouver Columbia Slope Water Quality Monitoring Phase 2—
City of Vancouver (WA)
EPA Grant Amount: $246,860
• Mandatory Cost Share: $82,286
Total Project Cost: $329,146
Location: Lower Columbia River Estuary
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The City of Vancouver, Washington, will collect an additional 18 months of water quality data at ten
locations along the Columbia Slope to accurately establish current conditions, provide baseline data
for future trend analysis, and determine the effectiveness of stormwater management practices.
Water quality data will also be used to identify and prioritize outfall basins where future stormwater
treatment retrofits would be effective in removing contaminants that are currently reaching the
Columbia River.
9 I Tracking Toxics in the Lower Columbia (Phase 1)—Lower Columbia
Estuary Partnership (LCEP) (OR)
EPA Grant Amount: $344,020
Mandatory Cost Share: $114,730
Total Project Cost: $458,750
Location: Lower Columbia River Estuary
The Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership (LCEP) will initiate a multi-phased toxic contaminant
monitoring program with the ultimate goal of reducing contaminant sources. LCEP will assess
current contaminant levels, compare results to historic levels at nine sites historically monitored by
partners, and report results in both technical and citizen-friendly educational formats. A Working
Group of key partners will guide the project team to update the sampling design for LCEP's toxic
contaminant monitoring program in anticipation of implementing the updated design with future
funding.
10 I Lower Wenatchee River PCB Source Investigation—Chelan County
Natural Resource Department (WA)
EPA Grant Amount: $138,999
• Mandatory Cost Share: $46,333
Total Project Cost: $185,332
Location: Middle and Upper Columbia River Basin
The Chelan County Natural Resource Department will investigate documented ongoing inputs of
legacy polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the Lower Wenatchee River, a tributary of the Columbia
River. For over 20 years, the Wenatchee River has had some of the highest concentrations of PCBs
in fish tissue in Washington State, which has consequently led to a fish consumption advisory for
Mountain whitefish. There are currently at least two listings for water quality impairment based on
PCBs in fish tissue in the Wenatchee River under the federal Clean Water Act, Section 303(d). The
information will be synthesized into a comprehensive final report, including recommended actions,
and will directly support ongoing source identification efforts by Washington State Department of
Ecology.
11 I Reducing PFAS and Phthalates in Local Clean Water Systems within the
Columbia Basin, OR—Oregon Association of Clean Water Agencies (OR)
EPA Grant Amount: $118,044
Mandatory Cost Share: $39,348
Total Project Cost: $157,392
Location: Columbia River Basin
Oregon Association of Clean Water Agencies (ACWA) will work to produce actionable information
for ACWAand its member agencies to reduce and better assess sources of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl
Substances (PFAS) and phthalates in municipal wastewater and stormwater systems. The results
of this effort will advance water quality improvement strategies for two priority chemical classes of
emerging concern and will directly inform ACWA's approaches for addressing other types of toxic
pollutants through its prospective Toxics Reduction Strategy.
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"The City of Vancouver
is excited to launch
the Waste Incentive
Network; we will use
this program to reduce
pollution and threats
to human and aquatic
health by promoting
proper waste disposal.
Additional water
quality monitoring
along the Columbia
Slope will help the City
identify and prioritize
stormwater retrofit
projects to remove
contaminants from
urban road runoff
that discharges to the
Columbia River."
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Water Manager, City of
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RESTORATION PROGRAM
ABOUT THE BASIN
The Columbia River Basin
covers 260,000 square
miles, 16 federally recognized
Tribes, areas of MT, ID,
WA, and OR and smaller
portions of WY, NV, and UT.
The Basin provides benefits
including commercial
fisheries, agriculture, forestry,
recreation, and electric
power generation. Human
activities have contributed
toxic contaminants to the
environment that contribute
to human health and
ecosystem risks. Throughout
the Basin, fish species have
accumulated contaminant
levels that are harmful to
people and wildlife. Toxics
in fish are a primary health
concern for Columbia River
Basin Tribal people and other
high fish consumers.
12 I Reconstructing 40 Years of Selenium Exposure from Fish Otoliths:
Archival Tissue Applications for Contaminant Biomonitoring in Lake
Koocanusa—University of Connecticut (MT)
EPA Grant Amount: $327,100
Mandatory Cost Share: $109,033
Total Project Cost: $436,133
Location: Upper Columbia River Basin
The University of Connecticut will use archival tissue (fish otoliths) biomonitoring for the
reconstruction of 46 years of population-level selenium exposure trends for the Burbot (Lota lota)
population in Lake Koocanusa (MT), a reservoir impaired by selenium contamination as a result of
coal mining activity in upstream British Columbia watersheds. Evaluating the exposure trends will
help protect habitat, fish, wildlife, and human health and the project team will share the data to
improve knowledge of potential health risks.
CATEGORY #4: MONITORING, ASSESSMENT AND
PUBLIC EDUCATION AND INVOLVEMENT
13 i Clearwater River Toxics Assessment and Monitoring Project—
Nez Perce Tribe
EPA Grant Amount: $195,692 (funded with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds)
Total Project Cost: $195,692
Location: Middle Columbia River Basin
The Nez Perce Tribe will conduct monitoring for total mercury (THg) and methyl mercury (MeHg),
pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), polybrominated diphenyl ether products
(PBDEs), and per- and poly-fiuoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and perfluorooctanesufonic acid
substances (PFOS) throughout the mainstem Clearwater River and some of its tributaries. This
project proposes to fill data gaps, increase toxics monitoring, and provide education and outreach to
the community.
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14 I Nez Perce Tribe Methylmercury Monitoring and Abatement: Salmon
and Lower Snake Rivers—Nez Perce Tribe
EPA Grant Amount: $343,969 (funded with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds)
• Total Project Cost: $343,969
Location: Middle Columbia River Basin
The Nez Perce Tribe will facilitate the identification and support reduction of methylmercury
(MeHg) threats to the Nez Perce people, through meaningful participation in monitoring, regulation
development, and community outreach. The project will establish new MeHg monitoring of Salmon
River subbasin water, sediment, and fish, and will integrate data with ongoing TMDL development
and MeHg management planning for the Hells Canyon reach of the Snake River. The Nez Perce
Tribe also will conduct education and outreach to raise Nez Perce Tribal members' awareness and
knowledge about fish consumption and toxins.
15 I Upper Columbia River Toxics Monitoring: Caring for S'nxwh tkwitkw—
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
EPA Grant Amount: $350,000 (funded with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds)
Total Project Cost: $350,000
Location: Upper Columbia River Basin
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation will undertake planning and piloting of an
innovative environmental monitoring and risk communication program that centers the needs of
Tribal members while being expansive enough to have relevance for all local residents and users of
the 214-mile reach of the Columbia River from the US-Canada border through Lake Roosevelt and
Lake Rufus Woods to the Chief Joseph Dam. The Tribe will sample fish tissue composites, beach
sediment composites, and surface water (dissolved and total analyses), with approximately 20-25
samples per medium. The specific analytes proposed are among the top EPA priorities: metals
including mercury, arsenic, copper, and lead; methylmercury (fish tissue only); PCBs (congener
analysis); and DDT and its metabolites. The Tribe will determine sampling locations through
community engagement and working with local project partners that have diverse constituencies.
The ultimate goal is to reduce uncertainty around what activities and resources are safe for Tribal
members and other local residents to do and use, and to initiate a program that will track future
trends in contaminant levels.
16 I Engaging Communities to Monitor Mercury Risk in the Columbia River
Basin: Intensive Application of a National Biosentinel Network at a Regional
Scale—Oregon State University (OR)
EPA Grant Amount: $349,919
Mandatory Cost Share: $116,702
Total Project Cost: $466,621
Location: Middle Columbia River Basin
Oregon State University (OSU) will work to implement a fine-scale, community-based mercury
monitoring network in the Willamette River Valley to document trends in biotic mercury
contamination at a fine scale across various environmental and demographic gradients, identifying
pollution drivers and informing safer fishing practices. Using established curricula, OSU will engage
and educate community scientists to sample dragonfly larvae as mercury bioindicators, connecting
people to the freshwater systems on which they depend, and increasing public knowledge of
mercury risks to ecosystem and human health.
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"Mercury contamination
poses significant risks
to fish, wildlife, and
human health. We are
grateful to start a mercury
monitoring program
in the Columbia River
Basin using dragonflies
as biosentinels. Using
EPA Columbia Basin
Restoration Program
funds, Oregon State
University will leverage
and partner with an
existing US Geological
Survey national scale
work effort, the Dragonfly
Mercury Project, to
engage Tribal Nations,
K-12 students, and other
local community groups in
collaborative, experiential
science."
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EPA'S COMMITMENT
TO TRIBAL HEALTH
PROTECTION,
ENVIRONMENTAL
JUSTICE, AND
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
The Columbia River Basin
Restoration Program is
focused on engaging
Tribal and underserved
communities in efforts to
identify and reduce threats
to their environment and
community health. EPA's
commitment to reducing
toxics in fish and water in
the Columbia River Basin
is key to EPA's ongoing
trust responsibility to
Tribal governments. Toxics
reduction will support
climate resilience for the
Columbia River Basin
ecosystem by reducing
aquatic ecosystem and
human health stressors in
an environment stressed
by severe climatic events.
17 I Toxics Assessment of the Lower Columbia—North Coast Watershed
Association (OR)
EPA Grant Amount: $97,016
Mandatory Cost Share: $32,372
Total Project Cost: $129,388
Location: Lower Columbia River Estuary
The North Coast Watershed Association (NCWA) will monitor roadway runoff chemicals at 10 sites
in the lower Columbia River Basin and use this information not only to fill data gaps but also to
target projects to mitigate toxic runoff through partnerships with the City of Astoria, Clatsop County,
and Lewis and Clark National Historical Park. This project also will have an educational aspect in
which NCWA leverages community partnerships to educate children and adults on issues related to
anthropogenic toxic substances present in the lower Columbia River and its tributaries, their impacts
on humans and wildlife, and how they can help.
18 I Quantifying Toxins to Inform Fish Consumption and Identifying Sources
of Pollutants in the Upper Columbia River Basin of Montana—Montana Trout
Unlimited (MT)
EPA Grant Amount: $221,362
• Mandatory Cost Share: $ 82,499
Total Project Cost: $303,861
Location: Upper Columbia River Basin
Montana Trout Unlimited will use monitoring to evaluate trends and promote citizen engagement or
knowledge by expanding the geographic extent of previous identification of toxins in Columbia River
Basin water and fish. Expanded fish sampling and analysis, alongside water sampling, will lead to
updated fish consumption advisories for the entire upper Columbia River system in Montana, which
will better protect public health, better inform the public about Columbia Basin toxicity concerns,
and identify opportunities for future toxin reduction efforts throughout the project's geographic
scope. Information attained from the project and public engagement on the issue will promote
future cleanup activities.
19 I The Crayfish Mercury Project—University of Idaho (ID)
EPA Grant Amount: $322,240 (funded with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds)
Mandatory Cost Share: $107,424
• Total Project Cost: $429,664
Location: Middle Columbia River Basin
The University of Idaho will facilitate community engagement while encouraging citizens to become
involved in an environmentally relevant monitoring program. Specifically, the project will monitor
mercury, a priority compound in the Basin, in the tissues of crayfish captured by participants from
community organizations and Native American tribes from across the Basin. This project will focus
on toxics monitoring, specifically for mercury, and engage citizens to promote pollution prevention.
The monitoring and community engagement will be conducted as one entity, as each informs
the other.
20 I Crayfish as Indicators of 6PPD-quinone—University of Idaho (ID)
EPA Grant Amount: $278,241 (funded with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds)
• Mandatory Cost Share: $92,776
Total Project Cost: $371,017
Location: Middle and Upper Columbia River Basin
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The University of Idaho will conduct a two-year ecotoxicological and environmental assessment
of crayfish as an indicator organism for 6PPD-quinone and tire wear particulate contamination
throughout the Middle and Upper Columbia River Basin (CRB). The two priorities of this project
are: 1) To demonstrate the applicability of native and non-native crayfish as monitoring organisms
for 6PPD-quinone (6PPD-q) contamination across a variety of environmental condition; and 2) To
promote citizen engagement and knowledge of aquatic contamination by tire wear particulates and
6PPD-q. The monitoring will help evaluate trends and current conditions around toxics in water, fish,
and sediments, and promote citizen engagement and knowledge.
CATEGORY #5: POLLUTION PREVENTION
21 I EcoBiz Program Enhancements: Bilingual Training and Pollution
Prevention Resources, Public Awareness, and Data Tracking Improvements
—Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center (OR)
EPA Grant Amount: $187,745
Mandatory Cost Share: $62,800
Total Project Cost: $250,545
Location: Lower Columbia River Estuary
The Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center will improve pollution prevention (P2)
outcomes, provide inclusive access to bilingual training and resources, and strengthen Ecological
Business Program (EcoBiz) partnerships. This project will develop educational training videos and
worksheets for automotive and landscaping businesses, create a regular communication system to
share P2 news and case studies, and migrate EcoBiz tracking and metrics collection to the national
Green Biz Tracker. EcoBiz certifies eco-friendly auto repair and body shops, landscapers, and car
washes in Oregon. Certified businesses meet high standards to reduce toxics, prevent pollution, and
protect the environment. Each certified location will be visited and evaluated by EcoBiz program
staff and certified by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the local water authority.
Using an environmental justice lens, the project will develop training in English and Spanish on
toxics reductions, hazardous materials management, stormwater pollution prevention, and other
pollution prevention practices in the Lower Columbia River Estuary. The project also will expand
the visibility of EcoBiz to the public through advertisements and will convene regional municipal
partners to coordinate pollution prevention efforts.
COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN
RESTORATION PROGRAM
"The City of Gresham
is grateful to be
a recipient of the
Columbia River Basin
Restoration Program
Grant funds. This
funding is instrumental
in our efforts to restore
and protect one of
our Nation's largest
watersheds. We
look forward to the
continued collaboration
with the EPA and
partner communities
as we collectively
work together towards
cleaner rivers and
streams throughout
our region."
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GRANT TOTALS
TOTAL AMOUNT OF
GRANTS AWARDED:
$6,935,609
TOTAL AMOUNT OF BIL
FUNDING AWARDED:
$3,823,379
TOTAL AMOUNT GOING TO
TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS:
$2,201,201
TOTAL AMOUNT OF
MATCH WHICH LEVERAGES
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
AND RESOURCES:
$1,589,739
22 I City of Vancouver Waste Incentive Network—City of Vancouver (WA)
EPA Grant Amount: $255,837
Mandatory Cost Share: $85,279
Total Project Cost: $341,116
Location: Lower Columbia River Estuary
The City of Vancouver, Washington, will work with its existing contracted waste hauler, Clark
County Public Works, and other private waste haulers to improve dangerous waste disposal in
the City of Vancouver for business and multi-family residential waste through a project called the
Waste Incentive Network (WIN). The City of Vancouver will reduce pollution and threats to human
and aquatic health by encouraging proper waste disposal and raising awareness about the water
pollution risks of improper waste disposal.
CATEGORY #6: CLEAN-UP OF SMALL NON-CERCLA SITES
23 I Eliminating Erosion of Legacy Mine Tailings from the Bodie Mine into
Toroda Creek, Kettle Creek Watershed, WA—Trout Unlimited (WA)
EPA Grant Amount: $332,285 (funded with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds)
Mandatory Cost Share: $111,200
Total Project Cost: $443,485
Location: Upper Columbia River Basin
Trout Unlimited proposes to eliminate ongoing erosion of a legacy tailing impoundment at the Bodie
Mine into Toroda Creek, a tributary to the Kettle River in northeast Washington, by removing tailings
material adjacent to the stream, stabilizing the streambank, and restoring native riparian vegetation.
Eliminating this source of pollution by cleaning up the contaminated areas will improve water quality
in the creek and downstream waters.
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CATEGORY #7: COMMUNITY EDUCATION
AND INVOLVEMENT
24 ! Pesticide Behavior Change Project of Oregon & Southwest
Washington—City of Gresham (OR, WA)
EPA Grant Amount: $347,412 (funded with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds)
Mandatory Cost Share: $115,804
Total Project Cost: $463,216
Location: Lower Columbia River Estuary
The City of Gresham, Oregon, will implement Phase II of the Pesticide Reduction Outreach (PRO)
Campaign, previously funded by an EPA Columbia River Basin Restoration Grant. This project will be
managed by the City of Gresham, the Clean Rivers Coalition Steering Committee, and its partners.
The PRO Campaign will focus on the reduction of human exposures and environmental releases
of residential and commercial pesticides. This project will launch pilot projects geared towards
residential Do-lt-Yourself (DIY) lawn care audiences and small business Hispanic/Latino/a/x (Latinx)
lawn care landscapers without pesticide licenses. The project will achieve pesticide use reduction
by teaching and engaging the key audiences about integrated pest management techniques and
deploying community based social marketing techniques to maximize behavior change.
25 I Columbia River Pollution Education and Outreach Project-
Columbia Riverkeeper (OR, WA)
EPA Grant Amount: $125,452
Mandatory Cost Share: $41,818
Total Project Cost: $167,270
Location: Middle Columbia River Basin
Columbia Riverkeeper will seek to reduce toxic pollution in the Columbia Basin by conducting youth
and community pollution education and outreach. The project will promote citizen engagement and
knowledge about EPA's priority toxics and pollution reduction through school, community, and online
engagement and by educating and inspiring students and community members on sources of toxic
pollution, reduction strategies, and actions to prevent pollution. This project builds on and expands
Columbia Riverkeeper's successful Columbia Gorge Pollution Prevention Outreach and Education
Program funded by EPA in 2020 and 2021. Specifically, the project will provide high-quality, field-
and online-based toxic pollution education to 1,200 kindergarten through community college
students from diverse communities in the Columbia River Gorge.
COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN
RESTORATION PROGRAM
"With support from EPA,
Columbia Riverkeeper
will help to reduce
toxic pollution in the
mid-Columbia. We
are excited to keep up
the community-based
momentum for a clean
Columbia with high-
quality online, field-
and classroom-based
pollution prevention
education to community
members and
students from diverse
communities in the
Columbia River Gorge."
— Lauren Goldberg, Executive
Director, Columbia Riverkeeper
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COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN
RESTORATION PROGRAM
"The Oregon Association
of Clean Water Agencies
(ACWA) is excited to receive
funding support from the
EPA to work on behalf our
member wastewater and
stormwater management
agencies across the state to
identify and reduce water
pollution from priority toxic
pollutants. This grant will
enable ACWA to collaborate
with partners to target
water pollution from PFAS
and phthalates—two highly
toxic classes of chemicals
found in thousands of
consumer and business
products and used in
industrial processes—in the
most effective, affordable,
and equitable way, which
is through reducing them at
the source."
— Susie Smith, OR ACWA
Executive Director
"Salmon-Safe has partnered with environmentally innovative farmers
in the mid-Columbia Basin for more than a decade to introduce market-
based incentives for water quality protection and habitat restoration
practices on agricultural lands. With support from EPA Columbia River
Basin Restoration Program, Salmon-Safe is scaling up our grower
outreach, farm assessment, and market recognition efforts throughout
the interior Columbia Basin, building new partnerships with place-based
conservation organizations and Tribal governments across the region,
including upper Snake River tributaries. We look forward to building
on this work with a new Columbia River Pledge to significantly expand
the audience we activate in our water quality protection and salmon
recovery efforts, including beginning to engage urban developers in
cities like Spokane and Boise."
— Dan Kent, Executive Director, Salmon-Safe
12 I OCTOBER 2022
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