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By Oregon Family Farm Association,
Oregon ranchers, farmers, tribes, state agencies and nonprofits will receive $31 million to clean toxic pollution from the Columbia River and its tributaries, the last of the $79 million allocated two years ago by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to improve the Columbia River Basin’s health, according to the Idaho Capital Sun [6]. The money, which comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will be distributed among the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation ($2 million each), the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality ($6 million), the Portland nonprofits Salmon-Safe ($6 million) and Freshwater Trust ($5.6 million), while several other nonprofits in Portland and Corvallis working with the EPA will receive between $4 million and $5.5 million to reduce stormwater entering the river.