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