This cooperative agreement, funded with $38,000,00 from the infrastructure investment and jobs act, provides the national fish and wildlife foundation (nfwf) with incremental funds of $18,000,000…

This cooperative agreement, funded with $38,000,00 from the infrastructure investment and jobs act, provides the national fish and wildlife foundation (nfwf) with incremental funds of $18,000,000 for the administration of the innovative nutrient and sediment reduction (insr) grant program, which supports efforts within the chesapeake BAY and its watershed that use innovative strategies to vastly accelerate sub-watershed and/or regional-scale implementation of nutrient and sediment reductions with approaches demonstrated to be successful. Federal funds in the amount of $20,000,000 are contingent upon availability. Activities:activities to be performed include implementation of a competitive subaward program; technical and grants management assistance to enhance collective capacity to implement on-the-ground nutrient and sediment reduction practices and approaches more efficiently and effectively; monitoring, reporting, and evaluation to ensure comprehensive understanding, accounting, and communicating of the insr program's environmental outcomes and to support ongoing adaptive management efforts; and networking, information-sharing, and outreach to disseminate lessons learned to the wider chesapeake BAY region stakeholder community and to institutionalize the continued and expanded implementation of successful nutrient and sediment reduction practices and approaches validated by the insr program.subrecipient:subawards will be issued on a competitive basis to support projects whose goal is to develop, support, and vastly accelerate implementation of innovative, sustainable and cost-effective approaches that dramatically reduce nutrient and sediment pollution on a sub-watershed and/or regional scale.outcomes:the insr program supports achievement of the water quality goals in the chesapeake BAY watershed agreement, particularly those included in jurisdictions' watershed implementation plans (wips) and the two-year milestones of the chesapeake BAY total maximum daily load (tmdl). The expected outcome is reduction of nutrient and sediment pollution to the chesapeake BAY and its tributaries. Beneficiaries include environmental organizations, the chesapeake BAY program partnership, and residents of the chesapeake BAY watershed.