How have Tribes used EN Grants in the past?

Tribes use EN grants to develop the Information Technology (IT), Information Management (IM), and sharing capabilities needed by their Tribe to support and improve environmental decision-making. Find out more about the types of activities in which states, Tribes and territories are involved by reviewing Previous Exchange Network Grant Projects that were awarded from 2002 to 2023. Below are also some examples of how Tribes have used EN grants:

• Provide training and support to participating Tribes to submit new data for Quality Assurance/Quality Control, data analysis and upload, geospatial features, and share open dump data via the exchange network.
• Provide understandable summaries of water quality data to citizens and partner with a local school to empower and create future environmental leaders.
• Provide the foundation to collaborate with other Tribal nations to help build tools that allow for better environmental management within each Tribe's jurisdiction.
• Develop tools to manage and monitor water quality as well as facilitate data exchange and analysis to help examine how environmental stressors are affecting wild rice resources across the region.
• Develop geospatial data layers and an application to allow for faster and more effective data sharing for quicker emergency response and recovery.
• Focus on air data gathering and transmissions through the Air Quality System to improve data submissions and reduce submission costs and burden.
• Build the capacity of 23 Tribal programs to consolidate, validate, analyze and share their water quality data to the EPA's Water Quality Exchange (WQX), in order to reduce program workload through more efficient processes and mechanisms.