Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Funds

Background
NOAA announces the availability of Federal funding for necessary expenses associated with the restoration of Pacific salmon populations. The Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) program makes such funding available to the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska, and federally recognized tribes of the Columbia River and Pacific Coast (including Alaska) for projects necessary for the conservation of salmon and steelhead populations that are listed as threatened or endangered, or identified by a State as at-risk to be so-listed; for maintaining populations necessary for exercise of tribal treaty fishing rights or native subsistence fishing; or for the conservation of Pacific coastal salmon and steelhead habitat.

Grant Details
PCSRF was established in Fiscal Year (FY) 2000 to address a coast-wide need to restore and conserve Pacific Chinook salmon, coho salmon, chum salmon, sockeye salmon, and pink salmon and steelhead, and their habitat. PCSRF supplements existing state and tribal programs to foster development of federal-state-tribal-local partnerships in salmon recovery and conservation by providing grants for restoration of anadromous salmonids to the eligible states and tribes. The objective of the FY 2022 PCSRF is to supplement state and tribal programs for salmon restoration by allocating federal funding to projects and activities that provide demonstrable and measurable benefits to Pacific anadromous salmonids (i.e., Chinook salmon, coho salmon, chum salmon, sockeye salmon, and pink salmon and steelhead) and their habitat. The program priorities include addressing factors limiting the productivity of Pacific anadromous salmonid populations listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), monitoring necessary for the exercise of tribal-treaty fishing rights or native-subsistence fishing on anadromous salmonids, conducting watershed-scale or larger restoration planning, among others.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants are the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska, and Federally-recognized tribes of the Columbia River and Pacific Coast (including Alaska). State applicants are required to match or document in-kind contributions of at least 33% of received Federal funds. Indian tribes, representative tribal commissions and consortia are exempt from any cost share requirement.

Period of Performance
The PCSRF program announcement is for programs and projects to be conducted for a 1-year or up to a 5-year period, with an anticipated start date no earlier than July 1, 2022.

Grant Value
Total funding available under this notice is anticipated to be between $50 and $100 million. The amount of funds available for competitive award will depend on the final fiscal year 2022 appropriation. Depending on the number of applications and amount of funding requested for each PCSRF Program Priority, NOAA may limit or proportion the distribution of FY 2022 PCSRF funds to each PCSRF Program Priority. There are no restrictions on minimum funding requests, but there is a limit of $25,000,000 as the maximum amount requested by any applicant.

Place of Performance
The specific geographic locations where the grant will be performed include the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska.