Clean Water Act §106 Reporting Requirements

Overview

The final Guidance on Awards of Grants to Indian Tribes under Section 106 of the Clean Water Act (the Guidance) is intended to help Tribal water quality program managers, staff, and other Tribal environmental decision makers design and implement effective and successful water quality programs. It also establishes procedures and guidelines for EPA regions to consider when awarding and administering grants to federally recognized Tribes.

Reporting requirements and data management expectations for all Tribal programs are a key component of the Guidance. Tribes are developing tribal assessment reports that contain information about water quality on tribal land and demonstrate national results for the Section 106 Tribal program. A tribal assessment report consists of:

a description of the monitoring strategy;
a water quality assessment; and
surface water quality monitoring data submitted electronically in a STORET-compatible format.

You can find copies of the Guidance and its supplements here and a copy of the STORET-compatible Data Template (also referred to as the WQX Web Template) here. The documents below have been developed to assist Tribes in completing these reporting requirements. These regional supplements support and further clarify the reporting requirements outlined in the Tribal 106 Guidance, and serve as additional tools for EPA and tribal staff to use as they implement the Guidance.

If you have questions about these materials, please contact your Section 106 Project Officer.

Regional Supplements

Reporting Requirements Overview (PDF) (1 pg, 78K)

1. Monitoring Strategy (Page A-1 of Guidance)

Monitoring Strategy Overview (PDF) (2 pp, 177K)
Monitoring Strategy Exercise (PDF) (8 pp, 95K)
Developing a Tribal Monitoring Strategy (Guidance Supplement) (PDF) (25 pp, 324K) lays out the decisions and analysis that Tribes must address to produce a monitoring strategy. The supplement provides formats and clearly identifies required information.

2. STORET-Compatible Electronic Data (Page A-7 of Guidance)