The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is seeking applications for Arkansas Technical Assistance Projects.
Donor Name: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
State: Arkansas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/29/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000 – $3,000,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The purpose of this announcement is to advertise opportunities to parties who are interested in partnering with NRCS to provide technical services to address the key conservation objectives and focus areas.
Projects that will provide technical services related to any of the following Arkansas state resource priorities:
Funding Information
The estimated funding floor for this opportunity is $5,000.00, and the estimated funding ceiling is $3,000,000.00.
Grant Period
Projects may be between one and three years in duration. Applicants should plan their projects based on an estimated project start date of September 1, 2022.
Emphasis will be placed on projects that achieve one or more of the following
- Promote public awareness of NRCS programs and further develop NRCS relationships with historically underserved agricultural producers or communities. Work should include engaging participants such as women agricultural producers, Veterans, minority producers, limited resource producers, beginning farmers, and/or any other historically underserved agricultural producers or communities and/or addressing program participation barriers.
- Facilitate the organization, advertisement, and delivery of training sessions which will result in participants being trained to become certified technical service providers to prepare soil health management plans or other recognized conservation planning activities.
- Provide specialized/advanced direct technical assistance in support of the following priority resource concerns in Arkansas; water quantity, water quality, wetland restoration, prescribed grazing systems, and/or wildlife/pollinator habitat. Work to include technical services provided directly to producers or technical services provided in support of the implementation of conservation programs.
- Provide direct technical assistance to producers in Arkansas by conducting the following: on-site inventory/analysis, formulation of conservation alternatives, preparation of conservation plans, assistance with conservation practice survey, design, layout, checkout, and/or implementation or support for farm bill program management. Priority will be placed on projects impacting areas of high conservation planning/implementation demand.
- Provide specialized/advanced direct technical assistance in support of soils. Work to include biological soil analysis for soil dynamic property projects and scanning and georeferencing of historical compliance records.
Eligibility Criteria
All applicants must demonstrate an established history of working cooperatively with producers on agricultural land to address local conservation priorities (to be determined by NRCS). All applicant categories must be capable of providing support in the State of Arkansas based in or with substantial operations in Arkansas.
Eligibility for this opportunity is limited to the following entity types
- City or township governments
- County governments
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (other than institutions of higher education)
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (other than institutions of higher education)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State-controlled institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- State governments
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
