99201831
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
Description: This agreement provides support to the recipient to implement New York's portion of the Lake Champlain Management Plan.
This agreement will support New York Lake Champlain flood resiliency, agricultural implementation, streambank stabilization implementation, and Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) funding programs to continue a New York based Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program.
Applicant and the Office of General Services has identified high-priority flood-prone watersheds throughout New York State to develop state-of-the-art studies to reduce flooding and ice jam formations and improve riparian ecology.
These funds would be used for implementation of flood mitigation projects addressed within the Flood Mitigation Analysis section of completed flood mitigation and resilience reports.
One of the sources of loading from forested lands is streambank erosion.
This funding is meant to support continued work by SWCDs to implement streambank stabilization or road-side stabilization projects to reduce sediment loading to streams in forests.
The 2024 Lake Champlain WIP/TMDL report provides an updated analysis of the geographic sources of phosphorus pollution by each source sector (agriculture, urban, forested, septic, and wastewater).
Funding will support the implementation of projects identified in the WIP and projects that align with the WIP recommendations.
The WIP project sub-categories include urban projects, rural roads implementation, enhanced agricultural best management practices, and stormwater management (including master planning).
These activities will benefit the people of Lake Champlain Basin by improving the ecological health of the lake.
Activities: Implementation of WIP and flood resiliency projects:
- Rural road best management practices;
- Develop and support management decisions and improve water quality by reducing nutrient loading and sedimentation to Lake Champlain;
- Develop state-of-the-art studies to reduce flooding and ice jam formations and improve riparian ecology.
Streambank stabilization: Funded BMPs would include streambank stabilization; culvert repair and replacement; and, where streambank erosion is exacerbated by ditch erosion (hot-spots), these funds could also be used for ditch stabilization/repair.
Agricultural recommended BMPs include, but are not limited to, access control systems, comprehensive nutrient management plans, conservation tillage, cover crops, erosion control systems, forest buffers, grass buffers, livestock heavy use area protection, manure incorporation/injection, manure waste storage, prescribed rotational grazing system, and silage leach control and treatment systems.
Forested recommended BMPs include, but are not limited to, hydroseeding, rural and forest road management, streambank stabilization, buffer installation, skidder bridge programs, culvert repair and replacement, and road ditch stabilization.
Urban recommended BMPs include, but are not limited to, bioretention/rain gardens, erosion and sediment control for dirt and gravel roads, filter strips, urban riparian buffers, permeable pavement, and infiltration practices.
Subrecipient: Subaward activities funding under this award include WIP/TMD projects:
- Implementation of rural road best management practices;
- Develop and support management decisions and improve water quality by reducing nutrient loading and sedimentation to Lake Champlain; and
- Develop state-of-the-art studies to reduce flooding and ice jam formations and improve riparian ecology.
Outcomes: This project will assist with improving water quality by reducing soil and phosphorus loads to Lake Champlain through agricultural, forest, and urban best management projects involving the reduction of soil erosion into streams which carry soil containing phosphorus, thereby improving the health of the lake by reducing the phosphorus and soil levels which in high content adversely affect lake health by causing algae blooms and other impacts.
This agreement will support New York Lake Champlain flood resiliency, agricultural implementation, streambank stabilization implementation, and Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) funding programs to continue a New York based Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program.
Applicant and the Office of General Services has identified high-priority flood-prone watersheds throughout New York State to develop state-of-the-art studies to reduce flooding and ice jam formations and improve riparian ecology.
These funds would be used for implementation of flood mitigation projects addressed within the Flood Mitigation Analysis section of completed flood mitigation and resilience reports.
One of the sources of loading from forested lands is streambank erosion.
This funding is meant to support continued work by SWCDs to implement streambank stabilization or road-side stabilization projects to reduce sediment loading to streams in forests.
The 2024 Lake Champlain WIP/TMDL report provides an updated analysis of the geographic sources of phosphorus pollution by each source sector (agriculture, urban, forested, septic, and wastewater).
Funding will support the implementation of projects identified in the WIP and projects that align with the WIP recommendations.
The WIP project sub-categories include urban projects, rural roads implementation, enhanced agricultural best management practices, and stormwater management (including master planning).
These activities will benefit the people of Lake Champlain Basin by improving the ecological health of the lake.
Activities: Implementation of WIP and flood resiliency projects:
- Rural road best management practices;
- Develop and support management decisions and improve water quality by reducing nutrient loading and sedimentation to Lake Champlain;
- Develop state-of-the-art studies to reduce flooding and ice jam formations and improve riparian ecology.
Streambank stabilization: Funded BMPs would include streambank stabilization; culvert repair and replacement; and, where streambank erosion is exacerbated by ditch erosion (hot-spots), these funds could also be used for ditch stabilization/repair.
Agricultural recommended BMPs include, but are not limited to, access control systems, comprehensive nutrient management plans, conservation tillage, cover crops, erosion control systems, forest buffers, grass buffers, livestock heavy use area protection, manure incorporation/injection, manure waste storage, prescribed rotational grazing system, and silage leach control and treatment systems.
Forested recommended BMPs include, but are not limited to, hydroseeding, rural and forest road management, streambank stabilization, buffer installation, skidder bridge programs, culvert repair and replacement, and road ditch stabilization.
Urban recommended BMPs include, but are not limited to, bioretention/rain gardens, erosion and sediment control for dirt and gravel roads, filter strips, urban riparian buffers, permeable pavement, and infiltration practices.
Subrecipient: Subaward activities funding under this award include WIP/TMD projects:
- Implementation of rural road best management practices;
- Develop and support management decisions and improve water quality by reducing nutrient loading and sedimentation to Lake Champlain; and
- Develop state-of-the-art studies to reduce flooding and ice jam formations and improve riparian ecology.
Outcomes: This project will assist with improving water quality by reducing soil and phosphorus loads to Lake Champlain through agricultural, forest, and urban best management projects involving the reduction of soil erosion into streams which carry soil containing phosphorus, thereby improving the health of the lake by reducing the phosphorus and soil levels which in high content adversely affect lake health by causing algae blooms and other impacts.
Funding Goals
5 - ENSURE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 5.2 - PROTECT AND RESTORE WATERBODIES AND WATERSHEDS
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
New York
United States
Geographic Scope
State-Wide
Related Opportunity
EPA-CEP-01
Department Of Environmental Conservation New York was awarded
NY Lake Champlain Management Plan Implementation
Project Grant 99201831
worth $4,200,000
from EPA Region 2: New York City in April 2026 with work to be completed primarily in New York United States.
The grant
has a duration of 3 years and
was awarded through assistance program 66.481 Lake Champlain Basin Program.
$1,400,000 (25.0%) of this Project Grant was funded by non-federal sources.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 8/7/25
Period of Performance
4/1/26
Start Date
3/31/29
End Date
Funding Split
$4.2M
Federal Obligation
$1.4M
Non-Federal Obligation
$5.6M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
99201831
SAI Number
None
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
State Government
Awarding Office
68HF02 REGION 2 (GRANTS OFFICE)
Funding Office
68R000 REGION 2 (FUNDING OFFICE)
Awardee UEI
ZECZWASEN594
Awardee CAGE
1SKP6
Performance District
NY-22
Senators
Kirsten Gillibrand
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
Modified: 8/7/25