84044301
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
Description:
The objective of the National Estuary Program Watersheds Grant Program (NEPWG) is to support projects that address urgent, emerging, and challenging issues that threaten the ecological and economic well-being of estuarine areas. Restore America's Estuaries will manage a cooperative agreement that will solicit, award, and administer a national competitive subaward program with subawards between $200,000 and $500,000.
Activities:
Activities to be performed include:
1. Work with EPA and the six-member Advisory Program Committee, comprised of leaders in the public, tribal, and non-profit sectors. Restore America's Estuaries (RAE) will develop a Request for Proposals (RFP) that integrates the goals and priorities of the NEPWG program.
2. Promote the NEPWG RFP broadly via email lists, social media, and newsletters, and increase targeted outreach to historically underrepresented communities and organizations.
3. Utilize a two-stage, competitive application process consisting of an open Letter of Intent (LOI) solicitation, followed by an invitation-only full proposal stage.
4. Select, oversee, and manage subawards that address urgent, emerging, and challenging environmental issues and priorities.
5. Oversee and manage subawards and provide technical support to subawardees to help ensure the quality of project data and environmental results, and Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs) submitted by subawardees meet EPA requirements.
6. Integrate learning and knowledge sharing opportunities throughout their administration of NEPWG and will convene at least one live learning exchange webinar annually.
7. Qualitatively and quantitatively measure, track, and report the outputs and outcomes of the environmental results of the NEP Watersheds Grant projects accomplished through the competitive subawards.
8. Capture the data and results, and document lessons learned from the subaward projects. Progress reports will document data results, along with reflecting on lessons learned.
Subrecipient:
Subaward projects will address urgent, emerging, and challenging issues that threaten the ecological and economic well-being of estuarine areas. The subawards will support estuary protection and restoration subaward projects located entirely within the identified NEP Watersheds Grant geographic areas.
Outcomes:
Anticipated outputs/deliverables may include:
1. Projects that address urgent and challenging issues that threaten ecological and economic well-being in geographic areas as defined by this RFA funded through subawards.
2. Projects that remove or modify physical barriers that would prevent the natural transition of salt marsh habitat.
3. Development and verification of subawardee tracking (reporting) systems that include the ability to monitor progress and upload reports.
4. Lessons learned captured from the subaward projects.
5. Number of acres, linear miles, or feet of habitat created, re-established, rehabilitated, or enhanced funded through subaward projects.
Expected outcomes may include:
1. Change(s) made to regulations, codes, and/or ordinances to promote estuarine watershed-based protection and restoration.
2. Increased capacity among state, local, regional, tribal governments, along with typically underrepresented and/or environmental justice communities, to address urgent, emerging, and challenging estuarine issues.
3. Improvement in the function of estuarine, near-shore, wetland, and upland habitat communities.
4. Increase in the quality of habitat that was impaired by non-native invasive species.
5. Change(s) in behavior of community members that result in improved conditions in estuarine waters or bolster resilience to climate change.
Intended beneficiaries of this program include the estuarine watershed communities and stakeholders located in the NEPWG geographic areas.
The objective of the National Estuary Program Watersheds Grant Program (NEPWG) is to support projects that address urgent, emerging, and challenging issues that threaten the ecological and economic well-being of estuarine areas. Restore America's Estuaries will manage a cooperative agreement that will solicit, award, and administer a national competitive subaward program with subawards between $200,000 and $500,000.
Activities:
Activities to be performed include:
1. Work with EPA and the six-member Advisory Program Committee, comprised of leaders in the public, tribal, and non-profit sectors. Restore America's Estuaries (RAE) will develop a Request for Proposals (RFP) that integrates the goals and priorities of the NEPWG program.
2. Promote the NEPWG RFP broadly via email lists, social media, and newsletters, and increase targeted outreach to historically underrepresented communities and organizations.
3. Utilize a two-stage, competitive application process consisting of an open Letter of Intent (LOI) solicitation, followed by an invitation-only full proposal stage.
4. Select, oversee, and manage subawards that address urgent, emerging, and challenging environmental issues and priorities.
5. Oversee and manage subawards and provide technical support to subawardees to help ensure the quality of project data and environmental results, and Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs) submitted by subawardees meet EPA requirements.
6. Integrate learning and knowledge sharing opportunities throughout their administration of NEPWG and will convene at least one live learning exchange webinar annually.
7. Qualitatively and quantitatively measure, track, and report the outputs and outcomes of the environmental results of the NEP Watersheds Grant projects accomplished through the competitive subawards.
8. Capture the data and results, and document lessons learned from the subaward projects. Progress reports will document data results, along with reflecting on lessons learned.
Subrecipient:
Subaward projects will address urgent, emerging, and challenging issues that threaten the ecological and economic well-being of estuarine areas. The subawards will support estuary protection and restoration subaward projects located entirely within the identified NEP Watersheds Grant geographic areas.
Outcomes:
Anticipated outputs/deliverables may include:
1. Projects that address urgent and challenging issues that threaten ecological and economic well-being in geographic areas as defined by this RFA funded through subawards.
2. Projects that remove or modify physical barriers that would prevent the natural transition of salt marsh habitat.
3. Development and verification of subawardee tracking (reporting) systems that include the ability to monitor progress and upload reports.
4. Lessons learned captured from the subaward projects.
5. Number of acres, linear miles, or feet of habitat created, re-established, rehabilitated, or enhanced funded through subaward projects.
Expected outcomes may include:
1. Change(s) made to regulations, codes, and/or ordinances to promote estuarine watershed-based protection and restoration.
2. Increased capacity among state, local, regional, tribal governments, along with typically underrepresented and/or environmental justice communities, to address urgent, emerging, and challenging estuarine issues.
3. Improvement in the function of estuarine, near-shore, wetland, and upland habitat communities.
4. Increase in the quality of habitat that was impaired by non-native invasive species.
5. Change(s) in behavior of community members that result in improved conditions in estuarine waters or bolster resilience to climate change.
Intended beneficiaries of this program include the estuarine watershed communities and stakeholders located in the NEPWG geographic areas.
Awardee
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding Agency
Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Arlington,
Virginia
22201-3392
United States
Geographic Scope
Single Zip Code
Related Opportunity
Analysis Notes
Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 155% from $5,500,000 to $14,000,000.
Restore America's Estuaries was awarded
NEPWG: Urgent Estuary Grants for Ecological & Economic Well-being
Project Grant 84044301
worth $9,500,000
from the Office of Water in April 2022 with work to be completed primarily in Arlington Virginia United States.
The grant
has a duration of 6 years and
was awarded through assistance program 66.456 National Estuary Program.
$4,500,000 (32.0%) of this Project Grant was funded by non-federal sources.
The Project Grant was awarded through grant opportunity Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Support of the National Estuary Program Watersheds Grant.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 8/26/24
Period of Performance
4/1/22
Start Date
3/31/28
End Date
Funding Split
$9.5M
Federal Obligation
$4.5M
Non-Federal Obligation
$14.0M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Subgrant Awards
Disclosed subgrants for 84044301
Transaction History
Modifications to 84044301
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
84044301
SAI Number
None
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
Nonprofit With 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other Than An Institution Of Higher Education)
Awarding Office
68HF00 OFC GRANTS & DEBARMENT(OGD) (GRANT)
Funding Office
68J000 OFFICE FOR WATER (OW) (FUNDING)
Awardee UEI
Z7YTEHKWXJC4
Awardee CAGE
3M4P1
Performance District
VA-08
Senators
Mark Warner
Timothy Kaine
Timothy Kaine
Budget Funding
| Federal Account | Budget Subfunction | Object Class | Total | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Programs and Management, Environmental Protection Agency (068-0108) | Pollution control and abatement | Grants, subsidies, and contributions (41.0) | $6,000,000 | 100% |
Modified: 8/26/24