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A Best Practices Guide for Talking to your Customers about Chronic Contaminants in Drinking Water

This fact sheet helps one to understand the importance of communicating with the public about chronic contaminants – both regulated and unregulated. It also describes effective strategies for getting your message out.

Smart Growth in Small Towns and Rural Communities

Provides information about smart growth strategies for small towns and rural communities and links to EPA and other resources.

Smart Growth Strategies for Disaster Resilience and Recovery

Smart growth strategies can help communities recover from a disaster, rebuild according to a shared community vision, and be better prepared for the next natural disaster.

Smart Growth Tools

This page describes a variety of tools useful to federal, state, tribal, regional, and local government staff and elected officials; community leaders; developers; and others interested in smart growth development.

Governors' Institute on Community Design

This page describes the Governors' Institute on Community Design, which helps governors and their staff make informed decisions about investments and policy decisions that influence the economic health and physical development of their states.

Region 3 Property Approval Questionnaire for Assessment Grants

Region 3's Instructions forProperty Approval Questionnaire for Assessment Grants

U.S. EPA Brownfields Grant Quarterly Progress Report

U.S. EPA Brownfields Grant Quarterly Progress Report Document

About the Administrator for EPA's Mountains and Plains Region (Region 8)

Biography for the Regional Administrator for Region 8.

Resources for Neighboring Jurisdiction Process

Provides overview of CWA Section 401(a)(2) and resources to help implement Section 401.

EPA redesignates Cleveland area to “attainment” for ozone; area now meets air quality standards

Decision comes after more than a 40% decrease in pollutants over eight years

Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Cleveland, Ohio, area is now in “attainment” for ground-level ozone based on years of air monitoring data showing the region meets the national standard set in 2015.

Release Date: June 23, 2026

2015/2016 Urban Waters Small Grants Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet: "About The Urban Waters Small Grants Program" released in September of 2015.

Greater Philadelphia Area/Delaware River Watershed Kickoff Webinar Agenda October 2014

Resource documents and links regarding water quality in the Philadelphia and Delaware River areas.

Greater Philadelphia Area/Delaware River February 2015 Webinar Agenda

Resource documents and links regarding water quality in the Philadelphia and Delaware River areas.

Photo Gallery for Green-Duwamish Watershed (Washington)

A photo gallery from the Green-Duwamish Watershed (Washington), which is part of the Urban Waters Federal Partnership.

Information on Receiving International Grant Payments

Information and instructions for international grant recipients on how to request payment from EPA.

EPA Clears Over Two Decades of State Implementation Plan Backlogs in Oklahoma

Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleared over two decades of backlogged State Implementation Plans (SIPs) in Oklahoma by acting on 13 SIP revisions submitted between 2002 and 2025.

Release Date: June 23, 2026