Two Utah Indian tribes are getting pieces of the $90 million in stimulus money targeted at helping to upgrade water quality and create jobs for tribal communities nationwide.

The Skull Valley Band of the Goshutes is getting $193,900 to upgrade drinking water supplies and the Ute Indian Tribe is receiving $139,580 for other water infrastructure, according to a news release from the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 8 office in Denver.

The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, which has some land in Utah but is primarily in Colorado, is getting $902,080.

The projects will help protect public health, improve water quality and help create jobs, said Carol Rushin, EPA's acting regional administrator.

The money, authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed by President Barack Obama in February, is for projects deemed "shovel-ready."

The act also requires that at least 20 percent of the money be used for "green" infrastructure, water and energy-efficiency improvements and other environmentally innovative projects. These tribal projects exceed the requirement, the news release said.