66.439: Targeted Watersheds Grants

66.439

Inactive

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Aug. 1, 2017

Sept. 16, 2016

To support innovative, community-based watershed approaches aimed at preventing, reducing, or eliminating water pollution. The Targeted Watersheds Grant Program provides resources in the form of grants or cooperative agreements to support watershed organizations in their efforts to expand and improve existing water protection measures. In separate competitive announcements funds are awarded to assist watershed partnerships comprised of State, Tribal, local, and interstate agencies, and public or nonprofit organizations in developing, implementing, and demonstrating: 1) on-the-ground projects to improve or maintain water quality; and 2) organizational and technical capacity building projects to prime organizations to be in a position to implement on-the-ground watershed projects. Funding Priority - Funding Priority - Fiscal Year 2016: To build upon the existing activities of watershed organizations to engage communities in capacity building activities to foster an increased connection, understanding, and ownership of their waters.

B - Cooperative Agreements

States, local governments, public and private nonprofit institutions/organizations, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, U.S. territories or possessions, and interstate agencies are eligible. For-profit commercial entities and all federal agencies are ineligible. Nonprofit organizations described in Section 501 (c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities as defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible. For certain competitive funding opportunities under this CFDA description, the Agency may limit eligibility to compete to a number or subset of eligible applicants consistent with the Agency's Assistance Agreement Competition Policy

Anyone/General Public.

66.454 - Water Quality Management Planning

66.419 - Water Pollution Control State, Interstate, and Tribal Program Support