The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is seeking grant applications for the fiscal year 2026 federal nonpoint source management § 319 funding cycle.
Donor Name: Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
State: Idaho
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/15/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Section 319 of the Clean Water Act established a grant program to support a variety of nonpoint source pollution management activities, including technical assistance, financial assistance, education, training, technology transfer, demonstration projects, and monitoring to assess the success of specific nonpoint source implementation projects.
A successful grant must focus on reducing pollutant loads and improving the quality of lakes, streams, rivers, and aquifers. Funds may be used to address nonpoint source management and prevention activities, including:
- Agriculture (except those activities covered by a draft or final Idaho Pollutant Discharge Elimination System IPDES permit)
- Urban stormwater runoff (except instances covered by a draft or final IPDES permit)
- Transportation (except instances covered by a draft or final IPDES permit)
- Silvicultural or forestry-related activities
- Mining (except those activities covered by a draft or final IPDES permit)
- Groundwater activities (to the extent identified by the state’s NPS management program, including source water protection efforts that involve regional collaboration or have the statewide application)
- Hydrologic and habitat modification and related activities (including wetlands reconstruction).
Grant Period
The maximum amount of time allowed to complete a § 319-funded project is 36 months from the date the subgrant is issued.
Criteria
- Proposed projects that meet the following criteria are ranked higher for funding
- Applicants must target projects ready to implement management practices that reduce pollutant loads
- Eligible projects must target pollutants identified in total maximum daily loads and implementation plans
- Applicants must submit a completed work plan and budget, provided with the application material below
- Projects must involve multiple partners and leverage other funding sources.
For information, visit DEQ.
