The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking applications for its Landscape Characterization and Monitoring in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/19/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
This NOFO is seeking insightful, expert, and cost-effective applications from eligible applicants to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program’s non-federal partners with updated LULC data, enhanced river corridor data, and landscape metrics and communication products associated with these data to facilitate their application to CBP outcomes and the CBP’s Phase 7 suite of modeling tools.
EPA seeks to support one recipient for four Activities to: (1) produce high spatial-resolution (<= 1m2) land cover for the years 2025/26 ensuring consistent and accurate estimates of land cover change since 2013/14; (2) produce hyper-temporal spectral indices from 1985- 2028; (3) produce high spatialresolution (<= 1m2) land use for the years 2025/26 ensuring consistent and accurate estimates of land use change since 2013/14 and improve BMP opportunity mapping and verification with LULC data; and (4) characterize stream corridors to enhance the utility and application of hyper-resolution hydrography data.
Funding Information
- Activity 1: High-Resolution Land Cover Characterization and Monitoring: $500,000 $2,500,000
- Activity 2: Hyper-Temporal Spectral Indices: $100,000 $500,000
- Activity 3: High-Resolution Land Use Characterization, Monitoring, and BMP verification: $500,000 $2,500,000
- Activity 4: Stream Corridor Characterization: $200,000 $1,000,000
Project Period
5 years
Eligibility Criteria
- Consistent with Assistance Listing 66.466 and CWA Section 117(d), competition under this solicitation is available for technical and general assistance grants to nonprofit organizations, State, tribal (federallyrecognized) and local governments, colleges, universities, and interstate agencies. For-profit organizations are not eligible to submit applications in response to this NOFO.
- 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 NOFO. Hospitals operated by state, tribal, or local governments or that meet the definition of nonprofit at 2 CFR 200.1 are also eligible to apply as nonprofits or as instrumentalities of the unit of government depending on the applicable law. 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.
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