Cooperative Agreement 00J09901

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,188,663 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 15.507) to Chelan County, Washington to complete the study and design of a comprehensive restoration project for Peshastin Creek. The project will relocate and reconnect the creek channel with its historic floodplain and construct two highway bridges across the rerouted waterway. Key project...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the State of Washington's Department of Ecology a $5,324,000 Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CFDA 66.458) formula grant, effective January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2025. The purpose of this grant is to capitalize the state's CWSRF program with a primary focus on addressing emerging contaminants in water. The funds will provide low-interest financing to numerous eligible subrecipients for costs associated with planning, designing, and...

The Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District will receive $315,000 from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) federal grant program to restore riparian corridors along 16 miles of Ashwaubenon Creek and 10 miles of Dutchman Creek in Wisconsin. Over the next three years, the Sewerage District will address water quality, riparian and instream habitat fragmentation, and degraded aquatic habitat through...

The Sausalito Marin City School District received a $3,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126). The funding will support the design, permitting, and construction of a 600-foot daylighted, vegetated perennial creek channel, as well as the installation of green infrastructure stormwater management features on the Martin Luther King Jr. Academy's Nevada Campus. The project also...

The South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group was awarded a $8.4 million Cooperative Agreement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Habitat Conservation federal grant program (CFDA 11.463). The funding will support planning, design, and implementation of delta and floodplain channel restoration, culvert and road removal, and installation of engineered log jams in the Puyallup River Basin. This work aims to recover threatened Puget Sound Chinook salmon,...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 awarded the State of Washington Department of Ecology a $33,157,200 Formula Grant under the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CFDA 66.458) program from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2026. The grant funding will provide additional capital for Washington's Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund to offer low-interest loans for projects that address the state's priority water quality needs in accordance with the state's ranking and scoring criteria....

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 awarded $600,000 to the Puyallup Tribe of Indians under the Geographic Programs - Puget Sound Protection and Restoration: Tribal Implementation Assistance Program (CFDA 66.121) to advance salmon habitat recovery and ecosystem protection objectives in the Puget Sound basin. The award, effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2030, supports integrated salmon habitat condition studies and watershed...

The Washington State Department of Ecology was awarded a $1,423,333 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration program (CFDA 15.614). The grant will fund the acquisition of a conservation easement over 227.89 acres of undeveloped marine shoreline, pocket estuary, salt marsh and forested habitat on Steamboat Peninsula in Thurston County, Washington. This will permanently conserve over 2.5 miles...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) received a $827,600 Project Grant award under the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469). With oversight from WDNR, the Bayfield County Land and Water Conservation Department and the City of Ashland will use this funding to address nonpoint source pollution concerns in the Fish Creek watershed and restore the Bay City Creek riparian corridor within Lake Superior. Key...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 provides $106,900 to develop preliminary designs for the removal of Chambers Creek Dam and replacement of two barrier culverts on spring creek tributaries to Chambers Bay downstream of the dam on Chambers Creek Road in Steilacoom, Washington. The funding will also support technical investigations and reporting for regulatory compliance and project permitting under the official federal grant...