96276200
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
Description: The purpose of this award to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Water is to implement its project to support the Long Island Sound Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan to protect and restore Long Island Sound by financing projects that meet the goals of the Long Island Sound Total Maximum Daily Load through the Water Quality Improvement Projects Program.
For the Water Quality Improvement Projects Program, the funds would be used in the wastewater treatment improvement, non-agricultural nonpoint source abatement and control, aquatic connectivity restoration categories, and marine district habitat restoration.
This award would also be utilized to support the counties, Suffolk and Nassau, to fund additional septic systems to help residents in these counties upgrade their septic systems to improve water quality in Long Island Sound.
Activities: Specifically, under this grant agreement the recipient will reduce nutrients across the watershed to restore and protect water quality and mitigate impacts on ecosystem health in Long Island Sound and its embayments as well as reduce pathogens and increase monitoring to protect water quality and human health, ensuring safe recreational and commercial use through water quality improvement projects and updates and replacements to leaking and insufficient septic systems.
Subrecipient: The subrecipients of this grant agreement will be New York State Facility Corp and selected projects from the Water Quality Improvement Projects Competitive Grant Program.
New York State Facility Corp will distribute funds to Suffolk and Nassau County to help fund their septic system replacement program to improve nitrogen pollution in Long Island Sound.
Selected subrecipients from the Water Quality Improvement Projects Program will implement projects that improve water quality in Long Island Sound.
Outcomes: Under this grant agreement the recipient will implement projects that reduce nitrogen and pathogens in the Long Island Sound watershed as well as reduce nitrogen and pathogens entering Long Island Sound through onsite treatment systems such as septic systems.
Direct beneficiaries of this program include the general population in the New York portion of the Long Island Sound watershed and its surrounding areas, schools, universities and other institutions of learning, environmental managers and policy makers and the participants in the Long Island Sound Study with a focus on disadvantaged communities.
For the Water Quality Improvement Projects Program, the funds would be used in the wastewater treatment improvement, non-agricultural nonpoint source abatement and control, aquatic connectivity restoration categories, and marine district habitat restoration.
This award would also be utilized to support the counties, Suffolk and Nassau, to fund additional septic systems to help residents in these counties upgrade their septic systems to improve water quality in Long Island Sound.
Activities: Specifically, under this grant agreement the recipient will reduce nutrients across the watershed to restore and protect water quality and mitigate impacts on ecosystem health in Long Island Sound and its embayments as well as reduce pathogens and increase monitoring to protect water quality and human health, ensuring safe recreational and commercial use through water quality improvement projects and updates and replacements to leaking and insufficient septic systems.
Subrecipient: The subrecipients of this grant agreement will be New York State Facility Corp and selected projects from the Water Quality Improvement Projects Competitive Grant Program.
New York State Facility Corp will distribute funds to Suffolk and Nassau County to help fund their septic system replacement program to improve nitrogen pollution in Long Island Sound.
Selected subrecipients from the Water Quality Improvement Projects Program will implement projects that improve water quality in Long Island Sound.
Outcomes: Under this grant agreement the recipient will implement projects that reduce nitrogen and pathogens in the Long Island Sound watershed as well as reduce nitrogen and pathogens entering Long Island Sound through onsite treatment systems such as septic systems.
Direct beneficiaries of this program include the general population in the New York portion of the Long Island Sound watershed and its surrounding areas, schools, universities and other institutions of learning, environmental managers and policy makers and the participants in the Long Island Sound Study with a focus on disadvantaged communities.
Funding Goals
5 - ENSURE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 5.2 - PROTECT AND RESTORE WATERBODIES AND WATERSHEDS
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
South Central Connecticut,
Connecticut
United States
Geographic Scope
County-Wide
Related Opportunity
EPA-CEP-01
Department Of Environmental Conservation New York was awarded
Long Island Sound Water Quality Improvement Grant
Project Grant 96276200
worth $5,650,000
from EPA Region 2: New York City in February 2025 with work to be completed primarily in Connecticut United States.
The grant
has a duration of 3 years 7 months and
was awarded through assistance program 66.437 Long Island Sound Program.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 2/6/25
Period of Performance
2/1/25
Start Date
9/30/28
End Date
Funding Split
$5.7M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$5.7M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
96276200
SAI Number
None
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
State Government
Awarding Office
68HF02 REGION 2 (GRANTS OFFICE)
Funding Office
68R000 REGION 2 (FUNDING OFFICE)
Awardee UEI
ZECZWASEN594
Awardee CAGE
1SKP6
Performance District
CT-03
Senators
Richard Blumenthal
Christopher Murphy
Christopher Murphy
Modified: 2/6/25