Deadline: 29-Apr-22
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is now accepting applications for the 2022 Arkansas Technical Assistance Projects.
Priorities
Projects that will provide technical services related to any of the following Arkansas state resource priorities:
- Water Quantity
- Water Quality
- Plant Health
- Soil Health
- Wildlife
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Provide specialized/advanced direct technical assistance in support of soils. Work to include biological soil analysis for soil dynamic properties and projects and scanning and georeferencing of historical compliance records.
Funding Information
- The Federal funding agency expects to award approximately $3,000,000.00 through this opportunity.
- 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.
Eligibility Criteria
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 gov governments
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337445