WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration announced that it expects to award up to five grants for rail capital projects in Alaska, South Dakota and Wyoming. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $23,108,458 with a ceiling of $16,193,884. Eligible Applicants: State governments Additional Information on Eligibility: Only eligible states are Alaska, South Dakota and Wyoming. The agency description of the grant states: "Thi  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it expects to award up to six cooperative agreements for floodplain management in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $703,696. The categories of funding activity are a) community development, b) disaster prevention and relief, c) education, d) employment, labor and training, e) environment, f)   more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it intends to award $2,157,555 cooperative agreements to state geological surveys of Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming for geologic mapping. The category of funding activity is natural resources. The U.S. Geological Survey provided the following overview: "This assistance award,  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on May 5: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the Northern Wyoming Community College District (NWCCD) in Sheridan, Wyoming, to improve and expand Northern Wyoming Community College's Health Sciences Center. The new Center will train students for healthcare jobs  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for the improvement of model and design-based inferences for the prevalence of blister rust at the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $76,788. The category of funding activity is science and technology and other research and development. Additional Information on Eligibil  more

BOISE, Idaho, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Idaho office issued the following news release: The Natural Resources Conservation Service in Idaho has released the May Water Supply Outlook Report for the 2020 water year. With the exception of the Upper Snake River basin in eastern Idaho and western Wyoming, monthly precipitation was below normal for all of Idaho and the surrounding terrain that feed our rivers. "Seasonal peak snowpack has pa  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General issued the following audit report on May 6: What We Looked At We performed a quality control review (QCR) on the single audit that McGee, Hearne & Paiz, LLP (MHP) performed for the Wyoming Department of Transportation's (WYDOT) fiscal year that ended September 30, 2018. During this period, WYDOT expended approximately $285 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) grant programs. MHP deter  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management announced that it intends to award a $2.5 million cooperative agreement to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Abandoned Mine Lands, for the closure of adits and shafts and to mitigate other dangerous mine features on public lands. The category of funding activity is natural resources. The agency description of the cooperative agreement states: "This partnership has supported program   more