The Environmental Protection Agency is accepting applications for eligible entities to partner with commercial, recreational, and subsistence fishers in each of the five Gulf states.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/08/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
EPA seeks applications that employ fishers’ networks and unique expertise on the waterways where they fish. Applicants must work with fishers in disadvantaged communities around inland waters, inclusive of urban, peri-urban, and rural areas, to develop community-engaged initiatives to remove, reduce, and prevent trash in waterways of common or public fishing spots and on surrounding land. Entities should work with fishers in multiple locations throughout the state.
Applications must develop and demonstrate fisher-led trash prevention and removal programs in one of the five Gulf states and multiple locations within the state):
- Engage fishers in disadvantaged communities to identify trash hot spots and develop strategies to educate community about trash prevention and removing trash/debris/waste from waterways; AND
- Work with recreational, subsistence, and/or commercial/artisanal fishers in disadvantaged communities, or with organizations engaging these groups to:
- Educate community members about trash prevention and/or reduction (e.g., education and outreach events and/or presentations etc.)
- Remove trash from inland waters (e.g., volunteer cleanups, incentivize fishers’ participation through participant support costs).
Funding Information
EPA expects to provide approximately $3.25 million for five projects, one in each Gulf state. EPA expect awards to range from $500,000 to $650,000. Proposed project periods may be up to three years. The maximum amount of federal funds that will be awarded for any project in this funding opportunity is $650,000.
Eligible Activities
- Projects submitted must align with the Clean Water Act 104(b)(3), which authorizes the award of grants to conduct and promote the coordination and acceleration of research, investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to the causes, effects, extent, prevention, reduction, and elimination of pollution.
- Demonstration projects must involve new or experimental technologies, methods, or approaches, where the results of the project will be disseminated so that others can benefit from the knowledge gained in the demonstration project. The applicant must clearly explain in the proposal how the technologies, methods, or approaches used are new or experimental and how the project otherwise meets the requirements of a demonstration as described in this NOFO. If your project uses technologies, methods or approaches that have been used previously in other geographic areas and/or other situations, then your proposal must include an explanation as to how your demonstration project is different from such prior projects. The applicant must also explain what will be learned from the demonstration project.
Eligibility Criteria
- In accordance with Assistance Listing 66.475, governmental entities, including state agencies, interstate agencies, Indian tribes, local governments, institutions of higher learning, and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply for funding under this NOFO. School districts or high schools designated as one of the eligible entities above are eligible.
- 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.
- For-profit organizations are not eligible entities for this funding opportunity.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
