The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking applications for its Methodologies and Tools to support Climate-Resilience Communities, Training Modules, and Modeling to Estimate the Impact of Future Hydrology on Urban Best Management Practices.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/22/2023
Size of the Grant: $140,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) is responsible for supporting the Chesapeake Bay Executive Council (Executive Council) through the coordination of federal, state, and local efforts to restore and protect living resources and water quality of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed.
EPA to provide assistance grants to support the goals of the program. The CBP is a unique regional partnership that has led and directed the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay since 1983. Today, the CBP partners include the states of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia; the District of Columbia; the Chesapeake Bay Commission (a tri-state legislative body); and EPA, representing the federal government. The partnership’s work is guided by the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, which establishes the plan for collaboration across the Bay’s political boundaries and establishes goals and outcomes for the restoration of the Bay, its tributaries, and the lands that surround them.
The agreement awarded under this funding opportunity will include the following Activities:
- Activity 1: Vulnerability Assessment Tool – Develop vulnerability assessment tools, including documentation of methods, that will enable communities to determine which of their residential and commercial areas, municipal assets, or green infrastructure such as ponds or habitats are most vulnerable to future flooding risks and devise strategies to minimize these risks;
- Activity 2: Decision Support Tool – Develop a memorandum that outlines specific processes to improve local capacity to identify and select the most cost-effective risk thresholds to protect specific classes of municipal infrastructure, using the most recent Chesapeake Bay extreme rainfall predictions released in 2021;
- Activity 3: Establish Resilient Design Adaptations – Evaluate commonly used Bay stormwater management and restoration practices and develop guidance and criteria for design specifications that could be adapted to meet the needs of local Bay communities to improve long-term resilience of BMPs; and
- Activity 4: Modeling to Estimate Impact – Conduct research and modeling analysis, including estimates of uncertainty, and describe the impacts of future hydrology on simulated urban BMPs.
Funding Information
- Activity 1: Vulnerability Assessment Tool
- Year 1: $140,000
- Year 2 $140,000
- Year 3: $140,000
- Year 4: $25,000
- Year 5: $25,000
- Activity 2: Decision Support Tool
- Year 1: $140,000
- Year 2 $140,000
- Year 3: $140,000
- Year 4: $25,000
- Year 5: $25,000
- Activity 3: Establish Resilient Design Adaptations
- Year 1: $140,000
- Year 2 $140,000
- Year 3: $140,000
- Year 4: $25,000
- Year 5: $25,000
- Activity 4: Modeling to Estimate Impact
- Year 1: $140,000
- Year 2 $140,000
- Year 3: $140,000
- Year 4: $25,000
- Year 5: $25,000
Project Period
The expected project period for the cooperative agreement is five years, with funding provided on an annual basis.
Eligibility Criteria
- Consistent with Assistance Listing 66.466 and CWA Section 117(d), competition under this solicitation is available for technical and general assistance grants to nonprofit organizations, State, tribal (federally recognized) and local governments, colleges, universities, and interstate agencies. For-profit organizations are not eligible to submit applications in response to this RFA.
- Consistent with the definition of Nonprofit organization, the term nonprofit organization means any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization that is operated mainly for scientific, educational, service, charitable, or similar purpose in the public interest and is not organized primarily for profit; and uses net proceeds to maintain, improve, or expand the operation of the organization. The term includes tax-exempt nonprofit neighborhood and labor organizations. Note, specifically excludes Institutions of Higher Education from the definition of non-profit organization because they are separately defined in the regulation. While not considered to be a nonprofit organization(s) as defined, public or nonprofit Institutions of Higher Education are, nevertheless, eligible to submit applications under this RFA. Hospitals operated by state, tribal, or local governments or that meet the definition of nonprofit are also eligible to apply as nonprofits or as instrumentalities of the unit of government depending on the applicable law. For-profit colleges, universities, trade schools, and hospitals are ineligible. Nonprofit organizations that are not exempt from taxation under section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code must submit other forms of documentation of nonprofit status; such as certificates of incorporation as nonprofit under state or tribal law.
- Nonprofit organizations exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that lobby are not eligible for EPA funding as provided in the Lobbying Disclosure Act.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
