66.481: Lake Champlain Basin Program

66.481

Active

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Sept. 16, 2022

Sept. 16, 2022

The goal of this program is to implement the Lake Champlain Basin Management Plan, Opportunities for Action: An Evolving Plan for the Future of the Lake Champlain Basin 2017 (Opportunities for Action), and to assist the states of New York and Vermont in protecting, restoring and preserving the water quality and ecological health of the Lake Champlain ecosystem. Since 2010, the Lake Champlain Basin Program has provided more than $13 million for more than 1,000 grants to reduce pollution in the lake. The program has used the funds to reach and educate the public, and to gather information about the lake. Funding Priorities - Fiscal Year 2021: Efforts in Lake Champlain will continue to support the successful interstate, interagency, and international partnership undertaking the implementation of the Lake Champlain Management Plan, Opportunities for Action, a plan designed to protect and where necessary restore the lake's water quality, sustain healthy ecosystems in the basin, support thriving communities and inform and involve the public in lake issues and activities. Financial awards under this program are made to the States of Vermont and New York, and the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission to implement the Lake Champlain Management Plan. Congress directed EPA to allocate $15,000,000 for the Lake Champlain program. From within the amount provided, $6,000,000 shall be directed to support significant, impactful projects identified in the State of Vermont implementation plan that will make measurable progress towards meeting the phosphorus reduction targets of the Agency's 2016 Phosphorus Total Maximum Daily Load Plan for Lake Champlain. Funds appropriated above $6,000,000 shall be allocated through the Lake Champlain Basin Program Process. Funding priorities include phosphorus reduction, cyanobacteria control, water quality monitoring to track progress and alert the public if unsafe conditions exist, aquatic invasive species prevention and control, habitat protection and restoration, and environmental education and outreach.

B - Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants)

In accordance with Section 120 of the Clean Water Act, EPA may provide funding to the states of Vermont and New York and the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission for the implementation of the Lake Champlain Basin Program. In addition, EPA may choose to solicit applications from other state, interstate, and regional water pollution control agencies, and public or nonprofit agencies, institutions, and organizations that are eligible to receive grants from EPA through this program.

Assistance under this program generally benefits State environmental, health, and agriculture agencies; interstate water pollution control agencies; public nonprofit institutions and organizations; sponsored organizations; Federal agencies; local agencies; intrastate agencies; public and private nonprofit institutions and organizations; private organizations; small businesses; and quasi-public nonprofit institutions.

66.419 - Water Pollution Control State, Interstate, and Tribal Program Support

66.454 - Water Quality Management Planning

66.436 - Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Training Grants and Cooperative Agreements - Section 104(b)(3) of the Clean Water Act

66.460 - Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants

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