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• EPA Invites Idaho, Oregon, and Washington Projects to Apply for Water Infrastructure Loans

  Projects will help modernize water infrastructure, protect public health, and increase community resilience

  EPA News Release: EPA Invites Idaho, Oregon, and Washington Projects to Apply for Water Infrastructure Loans

  • Release Date: December 3, 2021

• EPA awards Portland Area Indian Health Board $445,000 to test for lead in drinking water at schools and childcare centers

  EPA News Release: EPA awards Portland Area Indian Health Board $445,000 to test for lead in drinking water at schools and childcare centers

  • Release Date: November 23, 2021

• EPA and Justice Department reach settlement with Northern Cheyenne Utilities Commission to address Clean Water Act violations in Montana

  Settlement reflects joint federal and tribal efforts to protect public health, improve water quality and support tribal utility operations on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation

  EPA News Release: EPA and Justice Department reach settlement with Northern Cheyenne Utilities Commission to address Clean Water Act violations in Montana

  • Release Date: August 31, 2021

• Simplot pays $65K EPA penalty for pesticides violations

  Idaho & Oregon storage facilities cited for storage problems

  EPA News Release: Simplot pays $65K EPA penalty for pesticides violations

  • Release Date: July 22, 2021

• EPA awards $723,000 in grants for beach water quality monitoring in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $723,000 in grants for beach water quality monitoring in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington

  • Release Date: May 10, 2021

• Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians receive EPA approval to administer Clean Water Act programs on reservation and trust lands

  EPA News Release: Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians receive EPA approval to administer Clean Water Act programs on reservation and trust lands

  • Release Date: May 3, 2021

• EPA Announces $727 Million Water Infrastructure (WIFIA) Loan to Portland Water Bureau

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $727 Million Water Infrastructure (WIFIA) Loan to Portland Water Bureau

  • Release Date: March 4, 2021

• EPA issues summary of recent Safe Drinking Water Act compliance orders to protect public health in Region 8 Indian country

  Seven Administrative Compliance Orders issued to tribal water systems since December 2020

  EPA News Release: EPA issues summary of recent Safe Drinking Water Act compliance orders to protect public health in Region 8 Indian country

  • Release Date: March 2, 2021

• EPA reaches major cleanup agreement for the Portland Harbor Superfund Site, 100 percent of site now in active engineering design phase

  Settlement with businesses, federal, state, and local agencies for remedial design of the Swan Island Basin area brings the last and largest area into active cleanup work

  EPA News Release: EPA reaches major cleanup agreement for the Portland Harbor Superfund Site, 100 percent of site now in active engineering design phase

  • Release Date: February 12, 2021

• EPA Announces $81 Million WIFIA Loan to Beaverton, Oregon to Improve Water Supply

  Nationally, 43 WIFIA loans are helping finance more than $17.1 billion in water infrastructure projects. EPA WIFIA investment in Oregon water quality projects since 2018: $1.25 billion

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $81 Million WIFIA Loan to Beaverton, Oregon to Improve Water Supply

  • Release Date: January 19, 2021

• Newly released EPA plan will aid salmon survival in the Columbia River

  EPA: study delivers important data supporting federal, state and tribal salmon saving efforts

  EPA News Release: Newly released EPA plan will aid salmon survival in the Columbia River

  • Release Date: January 7, 2021