2020 Columbia River Basin Restoration Funding Assistance Program awards

The Columbia River Basin Restoration Funding Assistance Program is a competitive grant program for environmental protection and restoration programs throughout the Columbia River Basin. The grant program offers funding assistance to eligible entities on a competitive basis.

The following projects were funded by the 2020 inaugural round of grants. EPA was able to provide the full amount requested by successful grantees for a total of $2,053,903.

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2020 grant summaries

See below for a full listing grants. A printable version of the project summaries is also available: 2020 Columbia River Basin Restoration Funding Assistance Program Grant Awards (pdf) (1.91 MB, September 2020)

1. Monitoring, Reduction, and Collection of Agricultural Pesticides in the Columbia River Basin (WA)

• Recipient: Washington State Department of Agriculture
• EPA Grant amount: $200,000
• Success Story: Monitoring, Reduction, and Collection of Agricultural Pesticides in the Columbia River Basin (pdf) (2.1 MB, October 2022)

2. Ecological Business (EcoBiz) and Safer Alternatives Training for Chemicals of High Concern in the Lower Columbia River Basin (OR)

• Recipient: Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center
• EPA Grant amount: $88,304
• Success Story: Ecological Business (EcoBiz) and Safer Alternatives Training for Chemicals of High Concern in the Lower Columbia River Basin (pdf) (1.05 MB, October 2021)

3. Accelerating Water Quality Protection Practices on Agricultural Lands in the Interior Columbia Basin (ID, OR, WA)

• Recipient: Salmon-Safe
• EPA Grant amount: $190,000
• Success Story: Accelerating Water Quality Protection Practices on Agricultural Lands in the Interior Columbia Basin (pdf) (1.5 MB, October 2021)

4. Columbia River Mainstem Fish Tissue and Water Quality Monitoring Framework (OR, WA)

• Recipient: Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation
• EPA Grant amount: $188,378
• Success Story: Columbia River Mainstem Fish Tissue and Water Quality Monitoring Framework (pdf) (828.96 KB, October 2021)

5. Pesticide Reduction Outreach Campaign (OR, WA)

• Recipient: Multnomah County/Clean Rivers Coalition
• EPA Grant amount: $174,045
• Success Story: Pesticide Reduction Outreach Campaign (pdf) (903.8 KB, October 2021)

6. Washington Department of Ecology Local Source Control City of Vancouver FY21-22 (WA)

• Recipient: Washington Department of Ecology
• EPA Grant amount: $105,000
• Success Story: Washington Department of Ecology Local Source Control City of Vancouver (pdf) (481.53 KB, October 2021)

7. Clearwater River Watershed Baseline Monitoring and Toxics Assessment (ID)

• Recipient: Nez Perce Tribe
• EPA Grant amount: $200,000
• Success Story: Clearwater River Watershed Baseline Monitoring and Toxics Assessment (pdf) (2.32 MB, February 2022)

8. Grattix Boxes to Reduce Toxics or the GREAT (Get Real Environmental Attenuation of Toxics) Grattix Box Project (OR, WA)

• Recipient: Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership
• EPA Grant amount: $67,597
• Success Story: GREAT (Get Real Environmental Attenuation of Toxics) Grattix Box Project (pdf) (3.17 MB, September 2022)

9. Using Crowdsourced Crayfish in Education, Engagement, and Bio-monitoring Relative to Mercury Pollution in the Spokane and Boise River Basins (ID, WA)

• Recipient: Regents of the University of Idaho
• EPA Grant amount: $198,957
• Success Story: Using Crowdsourced Crayfish in Education, Engagement, and Bio-monitoring Relative to Mercury Pollution in the Spokane and Boise River Basins (pdf) (1.13 MB, October 2021)

10. Fish Consumption and Advisory Awareness Among Food Pantry Patrons Receiving Products of Lake Trout Suppression on Flathead Lake (MT)

• Recipient: University of Montana
• EPA Grant amount: $128,992
• Success Story: Fish Consumption and Advisory awareness among food pantry Patrons Receiving Products of Lake Trout Suppression on Flathead Lake (pdf) (1.14 MB, October 2021)

11. Evaluating and Prioritizing Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Lower Columbia River (OR, WA)

• Recipient: University of Washington Tacoma at the Center for Urban Waters
• EPA Grant amount: $76,601
• Success Story: Evaluating and Prioritizing Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Lower Columbia River (pdf) (935.44 KB, October 2021)

12. Upper Willamette Urban Waters Partnership Development and Program Expansion (OR)

• Recipient: Cascade Pacific Resource, Conservation & Development (RC&D)
• EPA Grant amount: $199,999
• Success Story: Upper Willamette Urban Waters Partnership Development and Program Expansion (pdf) (655.1 KB, October 2021)

13. City of Vancouver Columbia Slope Water Quality Monitoring (WA)

• Recipient: City of Vancouver
• EPA Grant amount: $144,039
• Success Story: City of Vancouver Columbia Slope Water Quality Monitoring (pdf) (1.1 MB, February 2022)

14. Columbia Gorge Pollution Prevention Education and Outreach Project (OR, WA)

• Recipient: Columbia Riverkeeper
• EPA Grant amount: $91,991
• Success Story: Columbia Gorge Pollution Prevention Education and Outreach Project (pdf) (948.78 KB, October 2021)