Block Grant 2101GALWC5

This Project Grant award, provided by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106), will fund the reconstruction of runway lighting and the installation of a new wind cone and segmented circle navigational aids at an airport associated with Walsenburg, Colorado. The $497,777.78 grant will acquire and install the new wind cone and segmented circle to provide critical airfield information to pilots, as well as reconstruct the existing runway 9/27...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $365,000 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 15.228: Wildland Fire Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities) to The Watershed Research And Training Center on September 21, 2025, with completion by September 20, 2030. In collaboration with Utah State University as a subrecipient, the award funds the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (FAC NET) initiative to strengthen wildfire adaptation...

The National Park Service awarded $5.08 million to the Colorado Department of Natural Resources under the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) Outdoor Recreation Acquisition, Development and Planning program (CFDA 15.916) for park development and outdoor recreation facility improvements. Under this Project Grant, the Colorado Department of Natural Resources is serving as the pass-through entity and making a subaward to the City of Steamboat Springs for developments and improvements at the...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources received a $695,000 Project Grant award dated October 1, 2025, under the Department of the Interior's Outdoor Recreation Acquisition, Development and Planning program (CFDA 15.916). Through this Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) award, the DNR is making a subaward to Ottawa County for development projects at the Upper Macatawa Natural Area in Zeeland, Michigan. The project will enhance public outdoor recreation infrastructure and facilities,...

Summary The U.S. Forest Service, Region 5 – Pacific Southwest Region awarded Clear Lake Environmental Research Center a Project Grant totaling $8,002,157 on August 11, 2025, under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720). The grant will fund wildfire mitigation activities in California through December 31, 2029, with a primary focus on reducing fuel loads within and adjacent to wildland-urban interface (WUI) and intermix communities to...

The Capital Region Planning Commission received a $115,482 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Science, Observation, Monitoring, and Technology federal grant program (CFDA 11.451) to support watershed management project selection and governance in Louisiana. Specifically, the award will fund the Commission's work with Louisiana's eight designated watershed regions to coordinate...

The National Park Service awarded $5.2 million through the Outdoor Recreation Acquisition, Development and Planning program (CFDA 15.916) to the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources on June 17, 2025, for park development improvements. Under this Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) grant, which is funded by offshore oil and gas lease revenues rather than tax dollars, DCNR will serve as the fiscal administrator and subaward the funding to Hempfield Township for capital...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,953,858 Cooperative Agreement on February 7, 2025 to the State of Utah's Division of Water Resources under the CFDA 15.078 Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program. The project aims to enhance snowpack monitoring and streamflow prediction capabilities in the Weber River watershed in north-central Utah over a 3-year period, ending on September 30, 2027. Key activities include conducting airborne snow observatory flights to gather snowpack data using aerial...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,060,448 Cooperative Agreement on December 20, 2023, under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078) to The Regents of the University of Colorado. This grant aims to improve water supply forecasts by enhancing snow monitoring through the deployment of emerging technologies, such as airborne LiDAR, and better integration of snow data into forecasting models. The project has two sub-awards - one to Oregon State University to assist in...

This $500,900 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at Iowa State University to develop theoretical foundations and systems for enabling industrial automation using low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs). Specifically, the university will address challenges in adopting the leading LPWAN technology, LoRa, for industrial automation applications requiring real-time communication and scheduling over large...