Deadline: 25-May-22
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is pleased to launch a call for applications for the Watershed Assessments for the National Water Quality Initiative.
This opportunity provides technical assistance funds to the awardee to assist NRCS with completing three watershed assessment plans on HUC12 delineations in the Caribbean.
Elements
The elements required for a complete watershed assessment are outlined below in six (6) parts:
- Background and purpose of the assessment. Clearly identify the primary water quality resource concerns of the watershed, what the water quality objectives will be and to what extent the problem can be addressed through NRCS technical and financial assistance.
- Watershed characterization. An overview of the watershed and identification of resource concerns. This overview should be information that is useful for the water quality assessment and not just a laundry list of collected information.
- Hydrologic and water quality characterization. Fully describe the hydrology (including irrigation) and the water quality conditions within the watershed. The analysis should demonstrate the transport mechanisms for pollutants of concern, and the spatial and temporal characteristics of transport.
- Resource Analysis and Source Assessment. Documentation and comparisons between existing and potential conditions. A preliminary analysis of what could be accomplished. The types of conservation practices and extent needed to assist in meeting the water quality objectives. The potential tools that can be used to identify, quantify, and analyze the resource problems, and demonstrate results.
- Summary and Recommendations.
- Evaluation and Outreach Plan.
Funding Information
- The Federal funding agency expects to award approximately $150,000.00 through this opportunity.
- Applicants should plan their projects based on an estimated project start date of September 30, 2022 and be 18 months in duration.
Eligibility Criteria
- This opportunity is open to all domestic applicants.
- Any award made pursuant to this NFO will be made to a single entity.
- Applicants that apply as “partnerships” or other similar groupings must clearly describe the relationship between the applicant and the “partner” parties. In all but exceptional cases, it must be reflected in the award as an awardee/sub awardee relationship.
- An applicant organization may submit more than one application for different projects or proposing different approaches.
- In the case of applications submitted as revisions or corrections to a previously submitted application under this NFO, the agency will consider the last application submitted prior to the established deadline.
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