The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has announced Coastal Storm Damage Mitigation Fund to provide grants to units of local government during the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium.
Donor Name: North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
State: North Carolina
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/08/2022
Details:
The funding selection criteria are as follows:
- Environmental Benefits/ Mitigation Measures
- Improves the ecological function of the beach and dune system.
- Restores degraded dune habitat.
- Restores habitat used by threatened or endangered species.
- Project is designed to avoid significant adverse impacts to threatened and endangered species and fish, shellfish & wildlife resources.
- Social Benefits
- Protects existing or historic public recreation areas.
- Improves the public accessibility to the beach.
- Provides or enhances full and complete public access.
- Economic Benefits
- Protects public property or infrastructure, or historic or culturally significant structures.
- Protects economically important land uses.
- Reduces potential storm damage to private property.
- Expected useful life of project
- Anticipated life expectancy of project benefits.
- Time to complete project and time required for stabilization of beach in years.
- Longevity of previous nourishment projects.
- Project has a long-term nourishment plan in place.
- Financial Resources
- Availability of funds to complete the project
- Project Efficiency
- Incorporates project efficiencies through regional planning at the County level or through the involvement and cooperation of two or more local governments
- Incorporates the beneficial use of clean, beach quality dredged material from the navigation channels within the nearshore, beach or inlet shoal system.
- Readiness to proceed based on the project phase, status of the permit, local funding source, construction easements, and construction schedule.
Eligibility Criteria
Units of local government
For more information, visit North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
