Grant Roundup: Senator Murkowski Announces Federal Grants to Alaska

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the senior Senator for Alaska, announced the following grants to organizations, Tribal entities, and communities in Alaska:

• Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association: $755,743 from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Head Start Indian Grants Program.
• Aniak: $1,035,000 to construct five tiny homes, which will serve as a temporary shelter for families impacted by COVID-19.
• Anchorage: Up to $75,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Justice Small Grants to the Anchorage Neighborhood Housing Services to provide community outreach and environmental education to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions.
• Anchorage: $2,933,622 from HHS to the Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center, Inc. Health Center Cluster Program.
• Anchorage: $2,261,725 from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development to the Interior Telephone Company to construct a 19-mile Fiber-to-the Premises system to benefit 194 residents and 32 businesses in the Port Lions, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska service area.
• Anchorage: $84,100 from USDA Rural Development to the Alaska State Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development to provide hands-on technical assistance on solid waste management in seven remote rural communities throughout Alaska.
• Anchorage: $248,200 from USDA Rural Development for the Zender Environmental Health and Research Group to provide training and technical assistance to improve solid waste management and human waste (i.e. honeybuckets) collection and disposal management in Alaska rural and remote non-hub communities.
• Anchorage: $268,000 from USDA Rural Development for the Zender Environmental Health and Research Group to provide on-site follow-up assistance to achieve Qualified Sampler certification, sampling for exceedances or other thresholds suggestions for further delineation or possible public health precautions; remote assistance to improve financial sustainability of the utility or decrease clear public health risks associated with utility operation and management; address deficient honey bucket collection services and reduce health risks or toxics; and implementation of standardized protocols and shipping out hazardous wastes.
• Anchorage: $257,000 from USDA Rural Development for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium to provide on-site evaluations of 26 existing ARUC member community water/sewer systems and prioritizing the deficiencies discovered during such evaluations.
• Anchorage: $599,939 from the National Science Foundation to the University of Alaska Anchorage for the “LTREB: Long-Term Consequences of Asymmetric Warming at the Tundra-Taiga Interface” Project.
• Anchorage: $439,425 from the FY 2021 AmeriCorps VISTA Awards to the Rural Alaska Community Action Program to empower low-income Alaskans through advocacy, education, affordable housing and direct services that respect their unique values and cultures. The proposed VISTA project aligns with the Economic Opportunity, Healthy Futures, Access to Care, and K-12 Success focus areas.
• Anchorage: $1,000,000 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grants to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources in partnership with the Municipality of Anchorage and the Greatland Trust to protect the wetlands ecosystems from imminent threat of development as part of the Potter Marsh Watershed Conservation Project.
• Belkofski: $354,000 to purchase a new ambulance, which will expand medical and emergency services.
• Chefornak: $1,035,000 to construct a new road and housing pads for future homes in a residential housing subdivision.
• Chilkoot Tribe: $10,000 from the Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) funding to address December 2020 flooding damage.
• Douglas Indian Association: $1,035,000 to construct 2?3 new homes on land owned by the Tribe to help alleviate the housing shortage.
• Eastern Aleutian Tribes, Inc: $2,047,130 from the HHS to the Eastern Aleutian Tribes, Inc. for the Health Center Cluster Program. 
• Fairbanks: $201,000 from USDA Rural Development for the Tanana Chiefs Conference to provide technical assistance and trainings to water operators, utility managers, and/or council members in Fairbanks or in a surrounding road service community and two onsite village visits to facilitate the Workshop in a Box: Sustainable Management of Rural and Small Systems.
• Fairbanks: $304,752 from the National Science Foundation for the University of Alaska Fairbanks project, “Collaborative Research: Spatiotemporal variability of solar radiation partitioning in the sea ice system: Improving climate models using observations from the MOSAiC field campaign.”
• Hoonah-Angoon: $1,357,868 from USDA Rural Development for the Byte Networking LLC dba Fibre Alaska to construct a 4.7 mile Fiber-to-the Premises system to benefit 430 residents and 16 businesses in the Gustavus, Hoonah-Angoon County, Alaska service area.
• Iliamna: $1,035,000 to construct five tiny homes, which will provide health care and serve as temporary shelter for families impacted by COVID-19.
• Juneau: $210,000 from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) to the Southeast Conference to establish an economic development planning framework, process, and strategy that supports private capital investment and job creation in the region.
• Juneau: Approximately $500,000 from the EDA for the Southeast Conference’s Alaska Mariculture Cluster Project to develop a viable and sustainable mariculture industry for the long-term benefit of Alaska’s economy, environment and communities.
• Juneau: $411,606 from the EPA to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation to develop and implement a public water system supervision program to adequately enforce the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations and requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
• Kenai Peninsula Borough and City of Seward: $2 million from FHWA funding to the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities in response to 2018 flooding in Kenai Peninsula Borough and City of Seward.
• Kenai: $2.5 million from FHWA to address September 2012 flooding.
• Ketchikan Indian Community: $974,375 to construct a triplex to help alleviate the housing shortage.
• Kodiak: $1,886,071 from HHS to the Kodiak Area Native Association for the Health Center Cluster Program.
• New Stuyahok Village: $1,035,000 to construct a community building, which will provide health care and serve as a temporary shelter for families impacted by COVID-19
• Newtok Village Council: $1,035,000 from to construct three three-bedroom, single-family homes, which will help alleviate the housing shortage.
• Northway: $1,035,000 to construct two single-family homes, which will help alleviate the housing shortage.
• Nunakauyarmiut Tribe: $1,035,000 to construct five tiny homes, which will serve as temporary shelter for families impacted by COVID-19.
• Organized Village of Kasaan: $1,035,000 to construct one duplex building, which will help alleviate the housing shortage.
• Southcentral: $20.3 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to address November 30, 2018, earthquake affecting Anchorage, Southcentral and Mat-Su areas
• Southcentral Foundation: $1,035,000 to construct a health clinic in the remote, rural community of Takotna, which is only accessible by boat or plane.
• Matanuska-Susitna Borough: $13,778,276 from the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for a Capped Improved Project to replace the existing Houston Middle School that was damaged as a result of the 2018 Alaska Earthquake.
• Maniilaq Association: $84,600 from USDA Rural Development to improve solid waste management scores by five percent through routine technical assistance, solid waste assessments, and community meetings.
• Seward: $1,117,814 from HHS to the City of Seward Health Center Cluster Program.
• Solomon: $115,000 to purchase a tiny home, which will serve as a temporary shelter for families impacted by COVID-19 and location to provide health care.
• Southeast: $3.8 million in FHWA funding to the U.S. Forest Service to address the December 2020 heavy rains, flooding and landslides affecting Tongass National Forest transportation facilities.
• Southeast: $600,000 in FHWA funding to the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to address November 2020 storms and flooding damage in various areas across Southeast Alaska, particularly Haines Borough.
• Southeast: Approximately $500,000 from the EDA for Spruce Root’s Southeast Alaska Sustainable Forest Products Cluster Project.
• Statewide: $332,031 from HHS to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
• Statewide: $3,642,464 from the USDA’s Supply Chain Assistance Fund to help schools and school meal program operators deal with supply chain challenges brought on by the pandemic.
• Talkeetna: $2,147,766 from the HHS to the Sunshine Community Health Center for the Health Center Cluster Program.  
• Tatitlek: $818,000 to replace/upgrade the community power system, which will improve the health and safety of residents
• Tununak: $1,035,00 to construct five tiny homes, which will provide health care and serve as a temporary shelter for families impacted by COVID-19.
• Unalakleet: $651,000 to develop a water-haul system, which will improve access to treated, potable water.
• Unalaska: $1,394,552 from the HHS to the Iliuliuk Family And Health Services for the Health Center Cluster Program.
• Wales: $500,000 to purchase a water truck and household water-holding tanks, which will improve access to treated, potable water.
• Wainwright: $1,035,000 to will build one three-bedroom home, which will help alleviate the housing shortage.