Deadline: 08-Oct-2024
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a notice of funding opportunity focused on Fisher-Led Aquatic Trash Prevention and Abatement in Urban and Inland Disadvantaged Communities.
Scope of Work
- This funding opportunity is intended to generate applications for eligible entities to partner with commercial, recreational, and subsistence fishers in each of the five Gulf states. 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;
- 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.
- Please note, however, that the specified maximum amount of $650,000 that will be awarded for an individual project establishes a per-project limit for the EPA funding; applications seeking EPA funding in excess of that amount will be rejected. In addition, an application for a multi-phase project will be treated as a request for the full amount for all phases. If that combined amount exceeds the specified maximum, the application will be rejected.
Environmental Results
- In addition to the information requested for environmental results in the project narrative guidance, also include:
- Outputs as a result of training, education, monitoring, surveys, demonstrations and other activities authorized by CWA 104(b)(3) may include:
- Number of individuals reached through education and outreach activities
- Number of organizations (e.g., businesses, schools, nonprofits) engaged in trash removal, reduction, and prevention activities
- Resources and/or programs developed or provided to educate consumers or organizations about their roles to reduce the amount of trash generated and to prevent trash pollution
- Publications, information, etc developed as a result of this project
- The following outcome as a result of training, education, monitoring, surveys, demonstrations and other activities authorized by CWA 104(b)(3) is required: Required:
- Mass or volume of trash removed and/or prevented from entering the environment (describe quantification method)
- In addition, one or more of the following outcomes is required:
- Number of individuals with improved understanding of the impact of trash in their communities. The applicant should describe how the change will be measured.
- Water quality and/or understanding of water quality conditions are improved (report number of water segments or water bodies)
- Habitat is enhanced or restored (report in acres or stream miles)
- Number of communities that are more resilient over the life of the project. The applicant should describe how the change will be measured and how resiliency was improved.
- Additional outputs and outcomes accomplished as a result of project activities should also be included.
- Outputs as a result of training, education, monitoring, surveys, demonstrations and other activities authorized by CWA 104(b)(3) may include:
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.
- An intertribal consortium must meet the definition of eligibility in the Environmental Program Grants for Tribes Final Rule, at 40 CFR 35.504 and be a nonprofit organization as defined in 2 CFR 200.1.
- 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. Additionally, nonprofit organizations described in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities as defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.