Environmental Protection Agency is soliciting applications to improve water quality and restore wetlands in San Francisco Bay and its watersheds.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: California
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/20/2022
Size of the Grant: $24,000,000
Details:
Since 2008, EPA has administered the San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (SFBWQIF) competitive grant program to fund projects that protect and restore San Francisco Bay. Such projects must demonstrate environmental results for water quality and aquatic habitat (e.g., wetlands). To date, EPA has awarded over $71 million and leveraged an additional $191 million to restore wetlands, improve water quality, and implement green development practices (e.g., employ natural hydrologic processes to treat polluted runoff). Program Elements. Given the historic loss of over ninety percent of San Francisco’s baylands and the significant number of waterbodies in the San Francisco Bay region with water quality impairments, the SFBWQIF aims to support a broad array of project types that will protect and restore those wetlands and waters. This year, in addition to long-standing funding priorities such as wetlands restoration, improving stormwater quality, and remediating contaminated shorelines, this solicitation seeks applications that address climate change impacts and environmental justice concerns, as well as those that advance landscape-scale watershed restoration. Examples of eligible and priority project types include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Multi-benefit shoreline projects that restore habitat, provide flood protection and/or reduce pollutants
- Watershed and urban infrastructure improvements in frontline communities
- Beneficial reuse of dredged material
- Solutions that reduce water quality impacts associated with people and communities experiencing homelessness
- Reductions in levels of trash and microplastics in Bay waters
- Restoration of subtidal habitat through sediment remediation and/or debris removal
- Installation of green stormwater infrastructure features to treat stormwater
- Projects to reduce nutrient inputs into San Francisco Bay, (e.g. wastewater treatment plant technologies, agricultural land BMPs, etc..)
Funding Information
Award Ceiling: $24,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
The following entities are eligible to apply for funding under this announcement: State, local government agencies, districts, and councils; regional water pollution control agencies and entities; State coastal zone management agencies; public and private universities and colleges; and public or private non-governmental, non-profit institutions. Nonprofit organizations must have documentation of non-profit status from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service or their state of incorporation. Non-profit organizations as defined in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying as defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act 1995 or superseding legislation are ineligible.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
