This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities for innovative nutrient reduction projects in one or more of the five Gulf states (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida) AND within the Gulf of Mexico watershed.
Donor Name: Environmental Protection Agency
State: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/08/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,500,000
Details:
Scope of Work
The EPA GMD is announcing a Request for Applications (RFA) from applicants to demonstrate technologies, approaches and strategies to reduce nutrient pollution. This must include demonstrations of innovative technologies and/or conservation projects that have the potential to reduce excess nutrient loads.
This may also include the development and use of innovative approaches or strategies to overcome barriers to adoption of the most effective and efficient ways to reduce nutrient loading.
Applications must address a nutrient reduction demonstration project with a plan for proof of concept in one of the following areas:
- Improving Habitat to Reduce Nutrient Pollution: Projects to enhance or restore riparian and near coastal areas in rural, urban, and suburban communities to reduce nutrients.
- Managing Urban Runoff: Projects to capture, store, filter, and treat runoff to reduce nutrient loads and improve water quality consistent with a broader strategy for watershed protection or restoration.
- Farmer to Farmer: Projects to reduce nutrient loads while enhancing performance of working lands through conservation practices and to advance the adoption of nutrient management through farmerled outreach and education networks.
Funding Information
Award Ceiling: $1,500,000
Eligibility Criteria
- In accordance with Assistance Listing 66.475, applications will be accepted from governmental entities, including state agencies, interstate agencies, Indian tribes (Federal and State recognized), local governments, institutions of higher learning (i.e., colleges and universities), and non-profit organizations (as defined at 2 C.F.R. §200.1) are eligible to apply for funding under this RFA. School districts or high schools designated as one of the eligible entities above are eligible.
- Consistent with the definition of Nonprofit organization at 2 CFR § 200.1, 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 that 2 CFR 200.1 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 by 2 CFR 200.1, public or nonprofit Institutions of Higher Education are, nevertheless, eligible to submit applications under this RFA. 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, 2 U.S.C. 1611.
- For-profit organizations are not an eligible entity for this funding opportunity.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
