Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief, Hughesville Dam Monitoring, DOI Project AC094

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Opportunity number
F17AS00147
Agency
Applications due
Originally
Award size
Not on record

Opportunity facts

Assistance listings
Funding instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Categories
  • Natural Resources
  • Other
Eligible applicants
  • Unrestricted
Full announcement

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Synopsis

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Update #2 · Latest ·

This is an announcement for issuing a single source financial assistance award to Musconetcong Watershed Association in Asbury, New Jersey. This announcement is for notification purposes only. The intent of the award is to perform ecological data collection for Hurricane Sandy coastal resiliency aquatic connectivity restoration projects. The grantee will collect data related to coastal resilience benefits such as: fish abundance, reduced flooding extent, and increased stream miles available to aquatic species. Information will be obtained through project visits, fish surveys, modeling, and other methods. This project will contribute crucial knowledge that will be used to improve aquatic connectivity system cost-effectiveness and functionality. Specifically this effort will focus on Hughesville Dam on the Musconetcong River in Pohatcong Township, Warren County and Holland Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. This project will monitors important spawning habitat for anadromous fish as well as improving habitat for native brook trout. This project is authorized by the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013, Public Law 113-2.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 5, intends to make a sole source award of a Cooperative Agreement to Musconetcong Watershed Association. This project was previously vetted and approved for funding by the Department of the Interior. The appropriation for this project is the Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriation Act of 2013, Public Law 113-2. Criteria for funding was based on the projectâ¿¿s ability to yield the greatest return on investment by taking advantage of existing science and regional planning tools for resiliency and by working with states, cities, communities, and partners who contribute to the goals restoring and rebuilding national wildlife refuges and other federal public assets: and to increase resiliency and the capacity of coastal habitat and infrastructure and to withstand future storms and to minimize the damage incurred.

Update #1 ·

This is an announcement for issuing a single source financial assistance award to Musconetcong Watershed Association in Asbury, New Jersey. This announcement is for notification purposes only. The intent of the award is to perform ecological data collection for Hurricane Sandy coastal resiliency aquatic connectivity restoration projects. The grantee will collect data related to coastal resilience benefits such as: fish abundance, reduced flooding extent, and increased stream miles available to aquatic species. Information will be obtained through project visits, fish surveys, modeling, and other methods. This project will contribute crucial knowledge that will be used to improve aquatic connectivity system cost-effectiveness and functionality. Specifically this effort will focus on Hughesville Dam on the Musconetcong River in Pohatcong Township, Warren County and Holland Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. This project will monitors important spawning habitat for anadromous fish as well as improving habitat for native brook trout. This project is authorized by the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013, Public Law 113-2. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 5, intends to make a sole source award of a Cooperative Agreement to Musconetcong Watershed Association. This project was previously vetted and approved for funding by the Department of the Interior. The appropriation for this project is the Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriation Act of 2013, Public Law 113-2. Criteria for funding was based on the projectâ¿¿s ability to yield the greatest return on investment by taking advantage of existing science and regional planning tools for resiliency and by working with states, cities, communities, and partners who contribute to the goals restoring and rebuilding national wildlife refuges and other federal public assets: and to increase resiliency and the capacity of coastal habitat and infrastructure and to withstand future storms and to minimize the damage incurred.

Files

File Type Posted
Hughesville Dam Zinan NOFO.docx DOCX document
oppF17AS00147-cfda15.677.pdf PDF
Hughesville Dam Zinan NOFO.docx DOCX document
oppF17AS00147-cfda15.677-instructions.docx DOCX document

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