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FY25 IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management Headquarters (HQ) Aquatic Resource Management

ID: L25AS00169 • Type: Posted

Description

The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Headquarters Aquatic Resources Program protects and restores riparian and wetland areas, aquatic habitats, and water resources to provide functioning ecosystems for a combination of balanced and diverse uses including fish and wildlife, and for the long-term needs of future generations. Policy guidance for the Program ensures that public land management based on multiple use and sustained yield provides healthy and productive riparian, wetland, and aquatic habitat, achieves land health standards, and considers society's long-term needs for healthy watersheds. The issues the Program addresses are diverse and include restoration, habitat fragmentation and degradation, drought resiliency, water availability, and aquatic invasive species. Program staff provide professional expertise and policy guidance to BLM managers, Federal, State, Tribal, and local governments, and non-governmental partners on these issues, and implement the best management practices to minimize or avoid impacts to water resources, riparian and wetland areas, and aquatic habitats on public lands. This program supports projects funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Section 40804 (b) Ecosystem Restoration. This program also supports projects funded through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Sections 50221 Resilience, 50222 Ecosystems Restoration and 50303 DOI.The BLM Headquarters Aquatic Resources Program's core functions include:Ecosystem Structure and Function: Protect and restore the physical and ecological processes of functioning riparian and wetland areas, aquatic habitats, and water resources.Water Quality: Protect and restore the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of surface water and groundwater.Water Availability: Ensure that water is legally and physically available for beneficial uses, including protection and restoration actions.Riparian, Wetland, and Aquatic Habitat: Proactively protect and restore riparian, wetland, and aquatic habitats to ensure the presence, abundance, and diversity of healthy, self-sustaining, and desirable riparian, wetland, and aquatic species and other wildlife and plant populations that depend upon these habitats, including special status species.Decision Support: Inventory, assess, and monitor aquatic resources to inform our understanding of condition and trend, guide the BLM's management activities, and assess regulatory compliance.Environmental Compliance: Ensure full compliance with applicable federal law, Executive Orders, regulations, and policy and with state law to the extent consistent with federal law.Internal & External Involvement: Consult, coordinate, cooperate, and collaborate with federal, state, tribal, and local governments and other programs, partners, and communities, to foster adaptive approaches to protection and restoration and implement education and outreach programs.The BLM Headquarters Aquatic Resources Program continues to advance the Department of the Interior's priorities to address the climate crisis, restore balance on public lands and waters, advance environmental justice, and invest in a clean energy future. The BLM Headquarters Aquatic Resources Program has an opportunity to work with partner organizations to assist with:Contributing to the above-described Program core functions.Combating climate change and habitat loss impacts to aquatic resources.Restoring and connecting degraded aquatic resources.Increasing ecosystem resistance, resilience, and adaptability to drought, wildfires, and floods.Determining acceptable levels of hydrologic and ecological change given BLM management objectives.Advancing inventory, assessment, and monitoring activities and tools.Preventing the establishment and spread of invasive species.Increasing public knowledge of aquatic habitats on BLM managed lands, including with a targeted focus on communities of color, low-income families, and rural and indigenous communities.
Background
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Headquarters Aquatic Resources Program aims to protect and restore riparian and wetland areas, aquatic habitats, and water resources to ensure functioning ecosystems that support diverse uses including fish and wildlife. The program addresses various issues such as habitat degradation, drought resiliency, water availability, and invasive species. It provides policy guidance and expertise to various stakeholders while implementing best management practices. This funding opportunity supports projects under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.

Grant Details
The BLM Headquarters Aquatic Resources Program's core functions include:

1) Ecosystem Structure and Function: Protecting and restoring ecological processes of riparian and wetland areas.

2) Water Quality: Ensuring the integrity of surface water and groundwater.

3) Water Availability: Guaranteeing legal and physical access to water for beneficial uses.

4) Riparian, Wetland, and Aquatic Habitat: Protecting habitats to sustain diverse species.

5) Decision Support: Monitoring aquatic resources for informed management decisions.

6) Environmental Compliance: Adhering to federal laws and regulations.

7) Internal & External Involvement: Collaborating with various governmental entities to enhance protection efforts.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, public institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments, nonprofit organizations (both with and without 501(c)(3) status), and private institutions of higher education. Individuals and for-profit organizations are ineligible.

Period of Performance
The anticipated project start date is July 1, 2025, with a maximum end date of September 30, 2030.

Grant Value
The estimated total program funding is $500,000 with an expected number of awards being four. The award ceiling is $500,000 while the award floor is $50,000.

Place of Performance
Projects will be performed on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management across various geographic locations as specified by individual project proposals.

Overview

Category of Funding
Natural Resources
Funding Instruments
Cooperative Agreement
Grant Category
Discretionary
Cost Sharing / Matching Requirement
False
Source
On 12/11/24 the Bureau of Land Management posted grant opportunity L25AS00169 for FY25 IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management Headquarters (HQ) Aquatic Resource Management with funding of $500,000. The grant will be issued under grant program 15.244 Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management.

Timing

Posted Date
Dec. 11, 2024, 12:00 a.m. EST
Closing Date
Feb. 14, 2025, 12:00 a.m. EST Due in 7 Days
Closing Date Explanation
Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m., ET, on the listed application due dates.Applications will be reviewed, rated, ranked and selected by one round:Open from December 11, 2024, through February 14, 2025Extensions to NOFO close dates will be unallowed, except in extenuating circumstances.
Last Updated
Dec. 11, 2024, 1:27 p.m. EST
Version
1
Archive Date
Dec. 31, 2025

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
State governments
City or township governments
Private institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
County governments
Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Special district governments
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Additional Info
Individuals and For-Profit Organizations are ineligible to apply for awards under this NOFO.This program NOFO does not support entities hiring interns or crews under the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993. The Public Lands Corps Act of 1993, 16 USC, Chapter 37, Subchapter II-Public Lands Corps, is the only legislative authority that allows BLM to "hire" interns under this authority. Therefore, eligible Youth Conservation Corps may only apply for projects developed under NOFO 15.243 – BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands.CESUs are partnerships with a purpose to promote, conduct, and provide research, studies, assessments, monitoring, technical assistance, and educational services. If a cooperative agreement is awarded to a CESU partner under a formally negotiated Master CESU agreement which is consistent with the CESU purpose, indirect costs are limited to a rate of no-more-than 17.5 percent of the indirect cost base recognized in the partner's Federal Agency-approved Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA). Applicants should specify if their proposal furthers the purpose of the CESU program, and if so which CESU Network should be considered as host.

Award Sizing

Ceiling
$500,000
Floor
$50,000
Estimated Program Funding
$500,000
Estimated Number of Grants
Not Listed

Contacts

Contact
Bureau of Land Management
Contact Email
Contact Phone
(303) 202-3865

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