Cooperative Agreement 97286001

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) provides $699,000.00 in funding to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Office of Coastal Management (ODNR OCM) to monitor wetland sites within the Lake Erie watershed in the Maumee River basin. The activities will involve sampling soils in multiple wetland restoration projects to measure parameters that predict phosphate retention and...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Regional Wetland Program Development Grants (CFDA 66.461) program, will provide $334,594 in funding to the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA) for a 3-year project. The project aims to quantify the movement of contaminants between river sediments and marsh surfaces in the New Jersey Meadowlands. The key activities include designing and implementing a hydrology study to understand the...

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation will receive $219,507 from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative program to develop a restoration plan for the 115.3-acre Yanty Marsh coastal wetland on Lake Ontario. The design will include plans to create open water channels and potholes through dredging of cattail monocultures to provide fish and wildlife access to spawning and nesting sites while enhancing habitat. The...

This $1,421,821 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program (CFDA 15.658) supports the acquisition and long-term stewardship of approximately 275 acres of land within the Onondaga Lake watershed in New York. The project aims to implement the preferred restoration alternative of land preservation to address natural resource damages, as outlined in the 2017 Onondaga...

This EPA Region 2 Cooperative Agreement award provides $442,770 in funding to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) to carry out ground-truthing and analysis of two wetland mapping methods in Bergen and Atlantic Counties, New Jersey. The goal is to determine if these novel methods could improve future land use/land cover (LULC) mapping efforts across the state. Key activities include developing a quality assurance project plan, conducting field data collection and...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Regional Wetland Program Development Grants (CFDA 66.461) program, provides $119,258 in funding to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) to develop a long-term wetland monitoring program. The key activities include identifying sites for repeated sampling, conducting pilot monitoring projects, developing field methods and data collection schedules, and analyzing changes in wetland...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 awarded $1,205,540 to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to conduct contaminant analysis on fish samples collected from 13 locations in and around the St. Lawrence River Area of Concern at Massena/Akwesasne. The award, effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, supports NYSDEC's...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Regional Wetland Program Development Grants (CFDA 66.461) program provides $405,294 in funding to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The purpose of the award is to conduct research to protect and manage wetlands under new state regulations and address a critical gap in the New York State wetland condition assessment. The key activities to be performed include: 1) Evaluating the...

Summary Central Michigan University received a $2.03 million Cooperative Agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) awarded September 30, 2025, to conduct basin-wide Great Lakes coastal wetland monitoring through September 29, 2031. The university will implement annual sampling protocols (2026-2030) across designated coastal wetland sites to assess fish, aquatic macroinvertebrates, birds, amphibians...

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation will receive $1.47 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative program (CFDA 66.469) to expand and enhance wetlands in Woodlawn Beach State Park from September 2021 through September 2024. Specifically, the recipient will increase existing wetland areas by 1.36 acres and plant over 16,000 native trees, shrubs and wetland plants across 4.46 acres. This expanded and...