Thursday, Apr 5 2012 3:16PM
The Spokane Tribe received a Sustainable Housing and Communities grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) worth $1.5 million to help improve housing, transportation and the local economy for the reservation.
Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that Native Americans living in Oregon are restoring their basic water needs with assistance from government-funded grants.
The Spokane Tribe received a Sustainable Housing and Communities grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) worth $1.5 million to help improve housing, transportation and the local economy for the reservation. In addition the tribe received a Smart Growth Implementation Assistance grant (SGIA) from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The SGIA grant will help with water and sewage system additions and upgrades.
The additional grants were needed, as the news source reports the reservation's current systems aren't working and have been repaired incorrectly in the past.
"EPA selected this project for receipt of an SGIA grant, in part, because it expects that lessons learned through this project can provide an example of best practices that others may use, given that the water and wastewater challenges in Wellpinit are common for other tribal and rural communities," Abby Hall, project manager for the EPA, told the source.
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Oregon Public Broadcasting