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GAP (General Assistance Program) Success Stories

The General Assistance Program (GAP) is a grant program created to assist tribes build environmental capacity; with the goal being tribes assuming; regulatory authority and development of their own tribal environmental programs. 

Below are success stories AIEO would like to highlight as examples of the great work between tribes and the EPA.

  • A Healthier, Cleaner Chalkyitsik Village: GAP Funds Recycling, Backhaul Efforts
  • Cortina Rancheria Partners with Local University on Water Quality Initiatives
  • Big Pine Paiute Tribe Develops Air Program
  • Tribes empower students to support global environmental sustainability
  • Kickapoo Tribe stabilizes streambanks, prevents pollution with water project
  • Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma uses GAP to develop brownfields program
  • Oneida Nation works to prevent leaks from underground storage tanks
  • Poarch Band of Creek Indians leverage GAP to build robust recycling program
  • Mississippi Band of Choctaw develop Lead Program Strategy using GAP funds
  • Popponesset Bay Restoration Project improves water via oyster propagation
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Last updated on April 28, 2021